Re: The New and Improved W's
Bill Bolton
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:02 AM
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:47:19 +1000, Michael wrote:
I was told by a friend, who does traction control maintenance, that
the at least *part* of the reason for going to automatic slack
adjusters, was that it was getting increasingly difficult to get
workers who were prepared to both learn and to stick with mundane,
dirty jobs like brake adjusting on W2s.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia
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At the end of the day, my opinionated guess is that it would have been
cheaper to rip out the automatic slack adjuster and reinstate the pit men,
than to spend many hundreds of thousands per tram installing track brakes.
Especially where the normally slow running City Circle W's are concerned.
I was told by a friend, who does traction control maintenance, that
the at least *part* of the reason for going to automatic slack
adjusters, was that it was getting increasingly difficult to get
workers who were prepared to both learn and to stick with mundane,
dirty jobs like brake adjusting on W2s.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia
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