Stuck between fixing a governor overspeed on site vs pulling the whole machine out - which way do you go?

Last Tuesday I had an old Otis machine start acting up in a 12 story building downtown. The governor was tripping randomly at normal speeds, no clear cause. One of the senior guys said I should just adjust the tension on site, get it running in 2 hours. Another guy told me to pull the whole governor assembly out and bench test it, because a hidden spring crack could fail again in a month. I went with the on site fix because the building manager was breathing down my neck about downtime. It held for 3 days, then tripped again on Friday. Now I'm wondering if I should have just done the full pull from the start. Has anyone else faced this call and regretted not going deeper on the first try?

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amyh1217d ago

Why do my SHORT cuts always turn into long walks of shame?

charles83617d ago

Think my GPS gets a kick out of humbling me like that.

anthonynelson17d ago

Wait @amyh12, aren't you just proving that short cuts are actually better because they teach you something? Getting lost means you're finding new places and learning the real layout of your area. Every time I take a "wrong turn" I end up seeing a cool little shop or a nice park I never knew existed. Those walks of shame are just you collecting information for next time, so you really know the neighborhood inside and out. Plus you get some exercise and fresh air, which is way better than just sitting in a car the whole time. So maybe the short cut worked exactly how it was supposed to work.