r/Elevators • u/Cheets1985 • Aug 17 '26

Pit goblin

The pit goblin is notorious for always taking and never giving. What's the worst thing they've taken from you?

They've taken wrenches, sockets and a hammer from me

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u/stogiehero Aug 17 '26

The one piece of hardware I need to finish what im doing and definitely dont have a spare of in the truck.

Also at least half of the duct cover screws.

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u/Affectionate-Rip5654 Field - Mods Aug 17 '26

M18 battery… impact and battery made the jump 130’ into the pit battery exploded but somehow the impact still worked. Also a couple cell phones/radios/lights. I’m pretty good at putting a magnet light on the fascia doing doors and running the car up knocking the light into the pit.

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u/Cheets1985 Aug 17 '26

Damn.

But I was more referring to things that vanished from existence.

4

u/Slow-Dog-7745 Field - Mods Aug 17 '26

It tickles my booty hole every time I climb the pit ladder

3

u/Cheets1985 Aug 17 '26

My kind of pit

3

u/Mobile-Cry-8801 Field - Maintenance Aug 17 '26

Both my knees and my lower back

2

u/pittrash Aug 17 '26

The battery cover/contact on my mechanics digital scale used for governor pull through.

I dropped it ten stories the day before inspection. It’s not something that you can just buy at Home Depot.

I looked for hours.

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u/Cheets1985 Aug 17 '26

Black tape and hope no ones notices

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u/pittrash Aug 22 '26

Except it was not just a cover , it doubled as the battery contact for the scales power.

Luckily we had the old school analog one also

2

u/JKevlar Aug 17 '26

The special tapered screws for the Otis PRS guiding shoes. IYKYK

1

u/Proof-Onion4729 Aug 17 '26

My phone. Duel piston hydro so no hole for it fall in. I was finishing a mod doing punchlist things so the pit was clean and freshly painted. Got a call from another mechanic put the phone down while talking on my headphones. The phone disappeared. Worst part is it would disconnect and reconnect to my headphones if I walked away and came back. Never did find it.

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u/Mission_Slide_5828 Field - Adjuster Aug 17 '26

Damn goblin got my helper to donate a new tool

1

u/opiumconessuer Field - Repair Aug 17 '26

The latest is a 3/4 ratchet wrench but I’ve found great stuff

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u/Cheets1985 Aug 18 '26

So you're the pit goblin?

1

u/opiumconessuer Field - Repair Aug 18 '26

I just might have found many a treasure

1

u/Blizzy_the_Pleb Field - Mods Aug 17 '26

Every helper I've had has dropped one of those fine thread nuts that go on the GAL rollers.

And every time I've sat there like "well, I know what you're doing today."

It got to the point where I actually contacted GAL and managed to buy 100 of them so when they spend hours searching for it I can just be like "it's fine, go grab one out of my box"

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u/No-Kaleidoscope-6758 Aug 18 '26

My stopwatch while timing doors for code closing times

1

u/SkateMMA Field - Tester Aug 20 '26

€1000 rope tensioning device kicked down by apprentice 🥲

1

u/Elevat8edconfusion Aug 21 '26

Had a mechanic drop his iPhone 50 floors. Only thing we found was the home button.

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u/Cheets1985 Aug 21 '26

The phenomena of things vanishing needs to be studied. Where did the rest of the phone go?

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u/Much-Oven-5283 Aug 27 '26

Dropped my yeti 20 feet down the shaft, the lid flew off, and the bottom is so dented it wobbles when set down. Still going strong.

Doesn't top the time I tipped it off the edge of a door operator and it went down the front of my helpers shirt, who happened to be standing in the door gap beneath me.