Re: Harris greasing car.

["Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com>]

Richard Ogilvie <r_ogilvie@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
7nls8t$cme$1@news1.mpx.com.au">news:7nls8t$cme$1@news1.mpx.com.au...

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

> "Snip"

> > 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.

The Victorian Railways has been disintergrated for some time
now... V/Line doesn't have any EMU's :o) :o)

> 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.

Methinks the Harris actually greases the inside of the
rail... the overhead greaser was the Tait inspection motor
which was sandwiched between the Harris motors.

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