Some flat sounding bells

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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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One of the bells on this Slovakian crossing signal sounds pretty flat and has a cowbell feeling to it too.


That crossing must also have some bad relays for a six minute activation.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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This Safetran bell sounds rather weak:


This mechanical bell also sounds pretty flat:


This e-bell starts out normal but starts glitching once the gates begin to lower:
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Some rather unusual sounding bells on this crossing in Slovakia.


This mechanical bell on a manually operated crossing in Poland sounds rather weak...
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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One of the bells here doesn't really ring at all, and just makes a clicking noise instead:


This Safetran mechanical bell also just clicks:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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freebrickproductions wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:18 pm One of the bells here doesn't really ring at all, and just makes a clicking noise instead:


This Safetran mechanical bell also just clicks:
Strange way the gates are mounted! Seem's to be mounted from the top part of the gate!
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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freebrickproductions wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:18 pm\This Safetran mechanical bell also just clicks:
Squeaky gates as well!
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The remaining Safetran mechanical bell at Memorial Drive in Decatur sounds pretty flat:
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The bell on the far left sounds pretty weak, and also cuts out several times.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Here's a bad GS Type 2:


And one of the US&S bells here just clicks:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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A mechanical bell in the first shot of this video sounds pretty bad:
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