Nobody knows how to properly lube the guide rails anymore

Was on a service call downtown last Tuesday for a car that was jerking like crazy between floors. Get up to the machine room and find the guide rail oiler completely dry. The log says the last guy "serviced" it three months ago. Three months. I see this all the time now. These new guys just slap some grease on the shoes and call it done. But that's not the same thing. The oiler needs to drip at a steady rate. Too slow and the rail dries out. Too fast and you're making a mess in the pit. I had to spend an extra hour cleaning the rails before I could even set the drip rate right. How hard is it to check the sight glass and set it to one drop per second? Am I the only one running into this?

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adam_nguyen73mo ago

Happened to me on the 14th floor at the old Merck building. Perfect example of guys not understanding the difference between lube and grease. One drop per second is literally the standard, it's in the manual. These shortcut takers are making us all look bad. I feel your pain on that extra hour cleanup.

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hall.nora3mo ago

And it's not just in our line of work either... I see it everywhere now. People taking the fastest route instead of the right one, then acting surprised when things fall apart. It's like that whole "move fast and break things" mentality got applied to everything, even stuff that shouldn't be broken in the first place. A little patience and reading the manual goes a long way but nobody wants to do that anymore.

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emery_taylor3mo ago

Yep @adam_nguyen7, grab a drip tray off Amazon and save yourself the headache.

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