Re: axle boxes ( F.V.)

[sthyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au (Stuart Thyer)]

> 
> Julie Thomson wrote in message ...
> >Over the last 6 months or so I have noticed Victorias rail freight wagons
> >have painted axle boxes in a multitude of colours.  Is this to do with
> >servicing. Can someone enlighten me.
> >
Don't quote me on this, but it may be to do with crack detection.  It has
probably always been done, but bogies used to get painted with a nice VR
brown after the overhaul.  This probably is no longer happening.
I do know that after a wheel has been crack detected it has its rim
painted white as part of the process.

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Stuart Thyer
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University of Melbourne

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