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Also, my second bike is fine. It’s a boy’s bike but I’m small so that’s going to have to do.

also also, one of the maintence men, a sun-dark dude in his sixties who’s barely taller than me, decided to invite me to see the elevator parts and see what’s wrong with it with him. It was very sweet. And definitely cheered me up.

It’s a hydro pump sort of thing, using oil instead of water but same idea. He opened the valve to let air in, but the elevator didn’t come down, even though it obviously should have. Probably means that for whatever reason, the valve is clogged. Or else something else is making the oil unable to drain.

He also showed me where someone once closed a wire on the electrical panel door, and the handle is still black from it.

The elevator has several “brains” and you can see which one leads to what floor. It’s a smart thing actually, he showed me how the mechanism “knows” when a fire happens, which isn’t surprising, but it also knows exactly what floor(s) the fire is on. That way, if people are on the elevator when a fire alarm sounds, it will by default bring them down to the ground floor and open on the exit out of the building, unless there is a fire there. Then it will use ten data from the smoke detectors to determine which floor is both closest to an emergency exit and which floor is not currently on fire :) which means it can theoretically drop you off on the third floor, because the bottom floor is the mail room so if someone brought an explosive package or something, the elevator would know not to even open its doors to that exit behind the mail room. Pretty cool!

You can also see the connection to the landline. It actually leads to the police station or the fire station. Obviously no operator involved now days, though. The elevator was built in 1960 but with the wire only going to those places, all it needs is some occasional inspection to make sure it’s still connected.
 

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