Some flat sounding bells

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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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One of the bells on this crossing in Finland sounds extremely flat.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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The Safetran bell here sounds pretty bad:


These ones also sound quite flat:


Another bad sounding Safetran:
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freebrickproductions wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:37 pm The Safetran bell here sounds pretty bad:


These ones also sound quite flat:


Another bad sounding Safetran:
The last one sounds like the bolt may be lose and the gong is hitting the rainshield making that wierd noise
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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The bell on this crossing sounds very weak, most of the sound is just the motor trying to hit the bell's gong. As of 2016 i believe that the bell has been replaced.
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The bell at this Polish crossing sounds pretty flat:
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One of the new WCH bells here already sounds pretty flat:
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A GS Type 1 heard at 0:45 in this video sounds bad, first one I've seen do this outside of Michigan:
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This WCH bell sounds rather flat:
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Here's a pretty bad (NEG?) e-bell:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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freebrickproductions wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 1:44 am This WCH bell sounds rather flat:
That bell has since been fixed as me and my friend noticed some stuff wedged into the gong. We managed to remove it from the bell. (I know that's considered tampering with railroad property. I do apologize for doing that) Luckily we managed to get what was removed out of the bell and it rings fine now. I have filmed this crossing again with its bell fixed, but for some reason YouTube won't let me upload it.
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