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Saw a crazy setup in a Denver hotel lobby last week
I was fixing a leaky roof on a high-rise in Denver and walked through this fancy hotel lobby. They had this glass elevator with a exposed hydraulic setup that looked like it was from the 80s but retrofitted with a digital controller. The cylinder was wrapped in plastic sheeting because it was weeping oil everywhere. Anyone else run into old hydros with modern bolt-on controllers that just don't play nice?
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margaret_lane5mo ago
Is it really that big of a deal? Plenty of old stuff gets hacked together with new parts and works fine for years. Sounds like they just didn't seal the cylinder right when they did the swap.
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felix4885mo ago
Got the same problem with my old truck - slapped a new fuel injector system on a 70s carburetor engine and now it stalls every time I hit a pothole. Guess I'm just as bad at matching old and new parts as that hotel crew.
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