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    Default Ever seen a train lay its own track ????

    This is awsome.....
    We have come along way from train gangs
    Ever seen a train lay its own track? [VIDEO]
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    Yep when they built the North Australia Railway ,they used a track laying loco the welding machine followed and resistance welded the rails ends together.

    Kev.
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    I saw that one on another forum a few weeks ago, amazing.

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    Default Train laying its own

    Yep, me too

    Robe River and Hammersly Iron had a shared machine between their railways in the 70s, 80s & 90s. Its all one company now called Pilbara Iron. Watching a Speno rail line sharpner (thats what I call it) in action is speccy too. It re-grinds the rail line back in shape, has many many disc's covering all angles of the rail line, moves at a very slow pace. The bends on the rail network are the most affected area. Gangers are still used to replace section of line, to maintain, weld and clear fallen animals from the network.

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    some people do live in the dark...ages.....lol

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    What I find strange in this video is that they seem to be replacing concrete sleepers, but not the rail. I thought the concrete sleepers were meant to last "forever".
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    maybe they were too small for the amount of weight they can carry nowdays?

    definitely concrete ones being ripped up

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    They do it all the time on "Chuggington"

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    Quote Originally Posted by eskimo View Post
    some people do live in the dark...ages.....lol
    Eskimo,
    I thought they still got the convicts to do them by hand,LOL
    Seriously
    I saw them doing the tracks up at Singleton NSW when driving through there a few years back. But I couldn't get close to see how it all worked.
    Ever since I was a kid I would stop to watch machines working, I find it intriguing.
    Talking of intriguing check out this machine MuellerNick picked up. This is the same bloke that is in the scraping thread.
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7klunkuScXs]YouTube - Punch shaper UMF Ruhla Typ 32 // Stempelhobler[/ame]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave J View Post

    Talking of intriguing check out this machine MuellerNick picked up. This is the same bloke that is in the scraping thread.
    YouTube - Punch shaper UMF Ruhla Typ 32 // Stempelhobler

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    Crikey - that's some weird complicated machine. What sort of things does it make? That flapping main drive belt sound is annoying.

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    Ok I give up what's it for?
    Seems an expensive way to get rid of the clapper box

    Stuart

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    It is a shaper, and was used to make specialized punching tools for the watch industry. He only paid 350€ for it. Evidently EDM took over and made these machines obsolete.
    More info on it can be found here
    New shaper )) - The Home Shop Machinist & Machinist's Workshop BBS
    I give credit to whoever designed it, it is a work of art with all it's moving parts and castings.

    Below is a shaper without a clapper. It has a rotating tool holder instead of a clapper and goes side to side instead of forward and backwards.
    Info here
    The Ludwig Gack Universal Shaping Machine

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    Yeah I got that it was a shaper Dave. but surely that movement of the cutter at the bottom of the stroke isn't just to do away with a clapper box....hmmm watches, they do have insanely small stuff inside them, maybe a clapper box(that would have to be spring loaded in some way) would damage them.
    (turns out it is to do away with the claper box, as per Daves other links)


    Damn I know shapers are heavy, but that machine seems to be taking to a hold new level.

    Stuart
    Last edited by Stustoys; 26th Aug 2010 at 12:40 AM. Reason: claper box comment

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    I knew what it was
    If any of you want any more details I'm sure Dave will be able to tell

    ??????lol...WOW what a piece of working contraption.....

    Had a look at the scraping vids...too........ wish he lived next door

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave J View Post
    Below is a shaper without a clapper. It has a rotating tool holder instead of a clapper and goes side to side instead of forward and backwards.

    Dave
    If the aim is to do away with the clapper box, the Gack is a more elegant way of achieving it.
    The UMF Ruhla machine looks like it might be able to generate a radius? - look at the way the cutter moves near the end of the stroke.

    There's a downloadable animation of the Gack here:
    http://www.filejumbo.com/Download/88FD0DE0CBEAB5CD

    (I tried uploading it here, but evidently we can't do animated gif's.)

    Jordan
    Last edited by nadroj; 26th Aug 2010 at 02:07 PM. Reason: Link to a smaller gif file

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