Use it like a real lift. Warning: Loud sounds and flashing lights!
@julotleblork_NEWV2 @Auntie_Rona @Jon5432 @halfai93294 @julotleblork @Oronaliftfan_2009 @Euroliftfan2024 WMF MS54 All Title: The last remaining one! Cheap 1998 Moore and Rodriguez hydraulic lift... Brand: Moore and Rodriguez Lift Co. Year: 1998. Type: Single ram roped hydraulic with the motor room at ground floor. Logic: Odd proprietary microprocessor controller made by Moore and Rodriguez. Voice: No voice originally but an Orona voice unit has been added later in 2005 by Moore and Rodriguez. Doors: Selcom Hydra arm driven doors. Fixtures: Schaefer MT 28 buttons and unknown 7 segment indicator. Capacity: 1000 kg or 13 persons. Speed: 0.5 m/s. Serial number: MAEL 0003. Motor: GMV T2 hydraulic pump. Starter type: Star-delta. Location: Majestic Estate Hotel, 199 Whale Avenue, El Garcia, ST. This is the lift at the Majestic Estate Hotel in El Garcia, ST. This hotel is a very boring late 1950's hotel which has been cheaply renovated between 1998 and 1999. The lift was installed during that renovation and it's an ultra rare but very cheap and garbage hydraulic Moore and Rodriguez lift. They only installed 3 lifts including this one before Orona took them over and now, they install Orona lifts which are loads better! The first one was built in 1989 and entered service in 1990 but it got modernized by Accord lift in 2008 with Lester Controls logic and Dewhurst buttons! This lift is located at a rather garbage medical building from 1990! The 2nd one was installed in 1993 as a retrofit and is located at the Radiant Villa hotel which used yet another boring late 50's hotel until the place burnt down in 2011 due to a bad boiler. The place has now been replaced with a 5 storey Ibis Hotel which opened in September 2013 and it has a set of 2 1.6 m/s Orona Arca 2 MRL traction lifts installed by Moore and Rodriguez. Both of them are well-built as well! Sadly, both got modded in October 2021 (Right after Windows 11 came out) by Jackson with LESTER! BLERGH! They also replaced their high-end Dell Optiplex and Latitude PC's with some entry-level HP ProDesk's and ProBook's at the same time just because of Windows 11 requirements. And these things are not so okay: They use Intel Celeron CPU's (The Dell's had i7's) and the HP's have mixed reliability (Sometimes the PSU fails in the desktops and the laptops sometimes have hinge or keyboard issues. The Dell's however had no issues apart from the HDD's becoming slow but they slapped in Kingston SSD's and boom, they run better than they did brand new). They also have to deal with a pretty bad customer service as well and HP also replaces the whole unit when 1 thing fail which is not good. Thankfully, the retired PC's end up at JTR for refurbishment which is good. Luckily, they kept the 2013 FireSweeper fire alarms as they are fine. Anyways, back to these cheap hydraulic lifts. This one is the 3rd and last one they installed. And all of these 3 lifts are exactly the same except this one is a bit newer. But other than that, they're all the same and even their speed and capacity are the same. They all have a very weird controller which makes the indicator and floor buttons blink whilst the doors are shut. They're all very cheaply built hydraulic lifts and somehow, the one from 1990 still works after 35 years (Got modernized in 2008 but structure, doors and pump are still the same) but it's on it's last legs. This one from 1998 is quite worn out and may get replaced soon. These 3 lifts all uses Selcom doors, Schaefer MT28 buttons with that one 7-digit display and GMV T2 hydraulic pumps with star-delta starters. Also, this building used to have a FCI 7200 conventional FA system but it got fully replaced in 2008 with a Silent Knight SK4 system with Wheelock MT's and Silent Knight branded Apollo optical smokes. Also, SK installed some low frequency SpectrAlert Advance alarms in 2014-15. The PC's used to be some Lenovo ThinkCentre and ThinkPad laptops from 2010 but they got replaced in 2020 with some HP EliteDesk and EliteBook stuff and these things are actually good and reliable which is good. They're still not as good as Lenovo and Dell professional hardware but they're still good enough... However, the building itself looks very dull and it is... They did a pretty bad job at renovating this building as well and this junk lift is the proof... They also used very dull colors as well... But at least the fire alarms and PC's are decent stuff and the lift is still a bit interesting. This lift is also located in the Whale Avenue which is also where the bad 1990 medical building, the relatively good medical building from 1994, the nice office buildings from 1998 and 2002-2004, the 2005 block of flats, the modern housing and office complex from 2007-2012, the decent 2013 Ibis Hotel and the Benjamin Franklin school + a multi storey carpark are located. They all feature a pretty wide variety of lifts but sadly, most of them got destroyed during the very bad school renovation of 2025.
