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Faulty Hold Clear
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:49 pm
by owensri
Take a look at this video...of the gate pumping...due to a faulty ratchet wheel on the hold clear...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjOPGntldo&fmt=18
Re: Faulty Hold Clear
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:34 pm
by illinoistrains
thats interesting, what caused that?
Re: Faulty Hold Clear
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:55 am
by AndrewFields
I saw
this signal do that one night. I was going to call BNSF about it but a train came through and when the gates went up again, it didn't do it.
Re: Faulty Hold Clear
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:36 pm
by owensri
Right. In this instance though...(actually, somebody emailed me and asked if I could tell them what's wrong with it, hence the videos) you can see the ratchet wheel's inner part spinning both ways. It's only supposed to spin one way, when the gate is going up. When the gate releases...the whole apparatus spins...
Re: Faulty Hold Clear
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:35 pm
by AlvinAZ
owensri wrote:
...(actually, somebody emailed me and asked if I could tell them what's wrong with it,
hence the videos) you can see the ratchet wheel's inner part spinning both ways.
It's only supposed to spin one way, when the gate is going up. When the gate
releases...the whole apparatus spins...
Cool. :)
Yeah x2. :)
...changed out quite few of those.
The way they work on the inside is like a starter drive or "one way roller bearing".
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Wow, I'm sure glad to hear that ain't yours, Owens. :)
He needs to clean that mess up. Don't know about him but I never wanted to be
asked questions about something that looked as crappy as that while someone
pointed at pictures of it from across a court room.
YMMV?
Alvin in AZ
