Some flat sounding bells

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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by freebrickproductions » Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:40 pm

Here's a pretty bad bell:


Bad horn on that leader too...
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by freebrickproductions » Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:21 am

A rather flat-sounding Safetran bell at 1:42 in this video:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by dan the ca railfan » Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:04 pm

here's a video of the crossing in lodi ,ca on pine street which has two us&S teardrop bells in action and it sounds like one of the teardrop bells has gone dead sadly.

it would also be the case why the bell in partcular that isn't shown would be the one that sounds dead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuBpO6uXLE
very lucky to live two-three blocks away from three teardrop bells. one of which i see at least once a week!
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by NathanFromEngland » Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:29 pm

dan the ca railfan wrote:here's a video of the crossing in lodi ,ca on pine street which has two us&S teardrop bells in action and it sounds like one of the teardrop bells has gone dead sadly.

it would also be the case why the bell in partcular that isn't shown would be the one that sounds dead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuBpO6uXLE
Both sound fine to me.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by freebrickproductions » Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:33 pm

NathanFromEngland wrote:
dan the ca railfan wrote:here's a video of the crossing in lodi ,ca on pine street which has two us&S teardrop bells in action and it sounds like one of the teardrop bells has gone dead sadly.

it would also be the case why the bell in partcular that isn't shown would be the one that sounds dead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuBpO6uXLE
Both sound fine to me.
One of them does sound a bit rougher at points though, but far from the worst Teardrop I've heard...
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by NathanFromEngland » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:09 pm

Unrelated, but here's a strange sounding alarm, that hasn't been changed since the late 1980's!


Sadly, it's beginning to sound sicker, here is a video from October 2017.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by freebrickproductions » Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:27 pm

Here's a video of a few pedestrian crossings in Sweden with some rather interesting signals. One of them has a mechanical bell that sounds like it's on its way out:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by freebrickproductions » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:46 am

A very flat-sounding WABCO Teardrop bell here, along with a rather weak and rough sounding WABCO bell on the other signal:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by NathanFromEngland » Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:42 pm

There's a slightly flat and rough sounding WRRS bell in this video.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

Post by NathanFromEngland » Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:24 am

One of the bells here is dead, and the other one can't even strike the gong properly.


One of the bells here sound rough, but i just love the sound out of the both of them.
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