Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

[Mick Stock <mstock@bigpond.net.au>]

Chris Downs wrote:
> 
> The biggest rattle on Sydney's single deck suburban cars came from those cars
> that retained lift windows when the rubber window guides were
> removed/vandalised/not replaced.  The windows rattled incessantly, something
> that didn't occur on the cars that were fitted with Beclawat windows.
> 
> The same rattle also affected U-boat cars with lift windows similarly
> maintained.  The rattle was more like an explosion when another train
> passed/was passed at speed.

Sounds like many of the Hitachi cars in Melb where the rubber seal is missing
- rattles like crazy, and sounds like a brick hit it when another train goes
passed.  Almost loud enough for anyone close by to need a change of underwear
(or a new heart)!

Mick.

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Mick Stock
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