I always figured antique elevators were just a bit quirky but basically fine... Your story about waiting days for parts and rigging temporary fixes changes that. Being stranded up there with a system from the 1940s, trying to keep it running, must have been a constant scramble. The stress of knowing a real fix might not come for weeks... It turns a simple repair into a high-stakes puzzle. Now I get that it's not about upkeep, it's about pure survival mode.