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Tottenham Court Road escalators, December 2003.
"Boltar" wrote in message om... Wtf are you talking about? My sentiments exactly! Take apart escalator and shipping to factory - 1 week approx. How exactly are you going to take apart an escalator, with another machine in operation for 20 hours a day just inches away from you? Don't forget there are fire alarm cables, pipes and sensors running all around the machinery which wouldn't be able to be isolated during the time the station is open. Where are you going to store all these parts your engineers are removing, there's hardly enough space in stations as it is! Refurbish and test at factory, well lets be kind and say 3 weeks. How exactly are you going to test a new escalator without it being in the shaft it's been designed for? Ship back to staton, rebuild and test - 2 weeks. See the first part. Thats 6 weeks and I've been pretty generous with the time. What exactly do they do with the other 4.5 months out of the 6 it generally takes themn to fix these things?? If you really think you can deliver as stated above, it would seem you're wasted doing the job you do and you'd be able to make a massive profit bidding for contracts for escalator refurbishment by being able to undercut bids from the likes of Kone and Otis! |
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