Let’s start off with the first lift as pictured below which is a Schindler 300A dry-powered hydraulic lift from the mid-90’s: It has Schindler MT short-bar buttons, a wooden car interior, new LED lights (cab renovated during COVID-19 pandemic) & a stainless steel frame with stainless steel handrails. It serves 3 stops & has a dry-powered hydraulic motor which sounds pretty nice, but it isn’t something to write home about. I really like the jolts & bounces this thing makes on the way up & down, but it is still a basic standard lift you can find at many different Macy’s stores across North America, so its final grade is a C+. The second lift I was able to film was a very nice EXCEL DOVER (meaning it got modernised by EXCEL from its Dover Impulse fixtures. The fixtures from the first glance are nothing special but zooming inward they use concave Innovation Security which is very rare. The lift also has a very unique “Doors open” “Door close” announcement which goes off eve...
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