[PRCo] Re: B-3 and Tatra PCC

[boris6 at volny.cz]

You can have some troubles with cracks after 35 years of service.
We have an expirience here that the B-3 motor girders crack if
drive shafts and brake drums are not properly balanced. But it
was about 30 years ago.... Side frame cracks are very, very
scarce. I haven't heard about cracked truck bolster yet.
Sometimes, but not often, we have cracked thread for the wheel
hub center nut. But there are several suppliers of spare parts
(not Tatra - it's gone) in our country, so we haven't significant
troubles with truck maintenance.

Boris


Od: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>

> B2 and B2b trucks all came from Clark Equipment Co.,
> better known today for fork
> lift trucks.  The B3 was a Saint Louis Car Co. design. 
> I was not aware that the
> B-3 trucks on the PAT 4000s were new ... you can make a
> new truck by replacing
> rubber, springs, the bolster grease cup, wheels, wheel
> inserts.  I could be
> uneducated but I cannot imagine anyone building a new
> B3 (unless we have a
> fortune in government money that needs to be spent).
> 
> Swindler ... help me....

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