23 Feb
2022
23 Feb
'22
3:39 p.m.
I’ll mention this to bain. This is a cheap knock-off version of this panic
bar type to save cash, since it was 1/5th the price. Due to the very short
door width on the inactive side there aren’t a lot of options, basically
it’s just two: very cheap or very expensive. Let’s see how regular
maintenance, oiling etc works.
David
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 23:46 Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
Tonight when I came in the smaller of the two double
doors at the front
wasn't latched and I could enter without a card.
Ian identified that it was also a matter of something being "sticky". The
long pipe that connects the top and bottom latches on that door to the
panic bare has a tendency to get stuck in the "up" position. Manually
forcing it down works. I jiggled it a bunch and it seems less likely to
stick now but I could still make it stick by lifting it up and letting it
go gently. Could be it needs a stronger spring. Could be it just needs oil
in the internal mechanism.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:11 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
today i got a call that the front door latch
wasn't working right.
I came to the space and checked it out, and it's definitely getting
sticky -
trying to open the door right after activating the latch release sometimes
doesn't work. Trying a second time works.
I fiddled with the solenoid latch and tried to identify the problem but i
can't
see anything specific that's going wrong.
This latch was just purchased a couple of months ago and i'm guessing it
was
hundreds of dollars. It's a really fancy thing. Maybe it has a warranty?
I don't see a good place to put in lubricant, and sometimes that makes
things
worse. So especially since this thing was fancy and expensive, i think we
should be careful and do the right thing.
Hopefully it's not going to get worse, but I expect that since it was fine
before and now it's not, it's just going to produce more complaints. We
might
have to put up a sign or something.
Next time I work on the front door, i'll put a louder speaker on the
access
system so that people can better hear the beep indicating that they
should pull
the door open.
-jake
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