This is a pneumatic power transfer – the LCN 4840-460.
Joe Cross of Allegion sent me today’s Fixed-it Friday photo, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This door serves a gymnasium in an elementary school. The automatic operator is pneumatic and air is used to open the door instead of electricity. A pneumatic unit was installed here because the reveal on the door frame (distance from face of frame to face of door) was too large for an electrohydraulic unit.
Normally, a pneumatic power transfer, which looks very similar to an electric power transfer (EPT), would be used to supply air to the pneumatic auto operator. This piece of hardware would have been concealed in the edge of the door and the frame rabbet, protecting it from damage.
Unfortunately, the installer had other ideas…
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And when the screw holding it underneath eventually wears a hole as the kids pull on the hose, they’ll wonder why it doesn’t work anymore…
Yikes!!
Well…. I suppose if the operator gets sick it can be medicated via its IV drip tube.
Nothing says high-tech like surface wiring, or in this case, surface tubing! Nice job of boogering up the hollow metal transom frame too! Geez!
The customer that took the lowest bid wins again!
That’s just Sad
Look on the bright side it will be easy to check the line for leaks… 2021 will be my look for the positive. It is not slamming it is positive latching… It is not broken it is secure… It is not unlatched it is providing that open campus feeling… It is not a bad key it is just misunderstood…
Lori have a happy holiday! Thanks for all you do it really matters more than you will ever know.
PS 2021 positivity will most likely end on the first project email I read on January 4….