Otis-Inspired safety elevator mechanism

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I’m an elevator geek so I built in roblox an elevator with a safety mechanism based off of Elisha Otis’ design from 1853 in which if the cable fails, spring-loaded arms lock into grooves in the side rails preventing the platform from falling right to the bottom. Here is a video showing it in action. Built using 100% constraints and parts.

I’m also making it open source. So feel free to improve upon it provided you credit me.
(Link in post #3!)

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#2

That’s pretty cool! The elevator is a little slow though.

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#3

I’ve updated the test map. Now you can control the elevator in person rather than running the game and manually enabling the script that controls the rope.
safety_elevator_demo.rbxl (86.7 KB)

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