Re: W class Trams are back!

["Adam Dunning" <adamdunning@start.com.au>]

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "David McLoughlin" <davemcl*PISSOFFSPAMMERS*@iprolink.co.nzzzzz> wrote in
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> > whitehat wrote:
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> > > If the W class brakes were faulty, why weren't the Restaurant trams
> removed
> > > from service?
> >
> > There was never anything seriously wrong with the W-class brakes. They
> > ran for decades without a problem. Now taxpayers are paying millions to
> > fix a problem that shouldn't have existed.
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> Yup. I'm betting the restaurant trams never had the hi-tech
> avoiding-maintenance-costs (ha!) "slack adjusters" fitted in them.
>
If I was a betting man, I'd put my money on that point exactly.  Save 5
minutes in maintenance (per tram) and loose the use of a fair number of your
fleet only to fit brakeing systems they don't need.  Bring back the manual
slack adjustors and be done with it.

Adam

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> Daniel
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