Post by towerman on Jul 30, 2005 1:29:18 GMT
As an ex fitter I was thinking of the things we used to do to keep the trains running.The budget locks on 59/62TS casements were notorious for locking nothing but thin air,the times a window dropped out on a punter's head,also the guide the casement sat in would come out as the wood it was screwed into was rotten.The way we got round these problems was for the first one remove one of the large brass woodscrews from the pillar between car windows and screw it into the wooden frame next to the casement so the head of the screw was holding the casement in place.For the second one,and this was in the days of smoking,look around the floor for matchsticks and in the summer lolly sticks break them into short lengths and put them into the screw holes,they made lovely rawl plugs.
We've jammed up relays on 67TS with bits of fag packet so we could set the CTV to get home in auto rather than slow manual,something similar with door interlocks short the defective one out with a piece of wire so we didn't have to go in coded manual.One Sunday we changed a copressor delivery pipe on a train in Brixton Sdgs,the one without a pit,we couldn't get the clamp back on the pipe so we tied the pipe to a convenient part of the underframe with a couple of swabs and went back to N/Park in auto with fingers legs and everything else crossed.
We've jammed up relays on 67TS with bits of fag packet so we could set the CTV to get home in auto rather than slow manual,something similar with door interlocks short the defective one out with a piece of wire so we didn't have to go in coded manual.One Sunday we changed a copressor delivery pipe on a train in Brixton Sdgs,the one without a pit,we couldn't get the clamp back on the pipe so we tied the pipe to a convenient part of the underframe with a couple of swabs and went back to N/Park in auto with fingers legs and everything else crossed.
