Some flat sounding bells

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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Swedish Crossings wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2019 4:17 pm
freebrickproductions wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:59 am One of the bells here just kinda ups and dies not long after activating:
It is even worse now, i am a member of the preserved railway it is located on, when i get more active there i will look at fixing it if i can, otherwise if it is beyond repair i will place a new mechanism inside it!

Have a clip of it from this summer, will upload it!


Here is how it sounded this summer, has not gotten any better
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One of the bells at Stephens Road in Canterbury has started sounding rather rough and flat!
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Here is a pair of some weak sounding WABCO teardrops on a crossing in Italy.


The WABCO mechanical bell on the signal closest to the camera sounds rough, as for the teardrop on the further signal, it sounds rather flat.


This Safetran mechanical bell, IMO sounds a bit flat.

freebrickproductions wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2019 5:01 pm One of the bells at the second crossing in this video sounds pretty rough (you can hear it the best starting at about 5:15 in the video). The first crossing also features an alarm that's having issues.
The bell completely doesn't work now, except for the motor letting out a very silent vibration during lowering sequence. It does let out a faint little ring though around 1:45 if you do listen carefully.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Sounds like this Safetran m-bell clicks a couple of times and dies:
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Bad Safetran here:
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These bells don't sound too great.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Here's a WCH e-bell that's a bit messed-up:


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Here's another one:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Some more bad WCH e-bells:


This one also sounds pretty unusual:
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freebrickproductions wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:43 am Some more bad WCH e-bells:


This one also sounds pretty unusual:

The second one almost sounds like a Japanese or Korean E-bell!
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Swedish Crossings wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:23 pm
freebrickproductions wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:43 am Some more bad WCH e-bells:


This one also sounds pretty unusual:

The second one almost sounds like a Japanese or Korean E-bell!
And the second one is on the site Too! Shame the bell is now dead.
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