Just had to share this horrific oversight I discovered while taking a closer look at something else today. This shot is looking through the grid at one of the batten hanging chains for our motorized austrian main curtain. A few things are wrong here, but notice especially in the middle of the photo the EMPTY cotter pin hole at the end of the shackle pin. WTF?!
Although it has almost surely been this way since installation 13 years ago, I missed it in my rigging inspection earlier this month, and an ETCP inspector didn't see it in the previous inspection either. Sometimes the little things count!
We don't have a lift to reach it, so a 2 minute fix becomes a big headache with a timeframe of TBD. I'm locking and tagging the curtain controls, leaving it flown out so nobody can tug on it, and closing the fire curtain to keep people from walking under it. Maybe extreme measures considering it has been this way for a very long time without incident. That part is heartening, but then again one of my other inspection notes was that the hanging chains are way out of plumb, causing them to pull the batten into the austrian lift lines, which I was about to fix by wrestling the chains (where they inappropriately wrap the grid, side loading links...) into plumb. That sure could have popped this pin out.
Although it has almost surely been this way since installation 13 years ago, I missed it in my rigging inspection earlier this month, and an ETCP inspector didn't see it in the previous inspection either. Sometimes the little things count!
We don't have a lift to reach it, so a 2 minute fix becomes a big headache with a timeframe of TBD. I'm locking and tagging the curtain controls, leaving it flown out so nobody can tug on it, and closing the fire curtain to keep people from walking under it. Maybe extreme measures considering it has been this way for a very long time without incident. That part is heartening, but then again one of my other inspection notes was that the hanging chains are way out of plumb, causing them to pull the batten into the austrian lift lines, which I was about to fix by wrestling the chains (where they inappropriately wrap the grid, side loading links...) into plumb. That sure could have popped this pin out.
