Re: Harris greasing car.

["Richard Ogilvie" <r_ogilvie@optusnet.com.au>]

Matthew Geier wrote in message <7nlipt$l27$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>...

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>
> Hasnt Vline finally fitted carbon strips to their EMU pans like every one
>else seems to do ?.
> I would have thought that by now, enough of the fleet would be fitted with
>the carbon strips that seperate lubrication of the wires would no longer be
>needed.
>


Melbourne has indeed gone the way of carbon contact pans. The 'Greaser' as
it once was is now used for overhead inspections only - it's just that the
name has stuck.