Our brief was to reverse engineer a ‘Train Auto-Coupler’ Test Box, for a 320 Class Locomotive, there was only one in existence; it was manufactured a long time ago by Alstom, and there were no drawings available.The Auto-coupler Test unit is used to Test the wiring and the functionality of the controls from the Drivers Seat to the Auto-coupler, which connects the Loco to the next Train Carriage.We managed to do this and create a drawing package so that we could manufacture more in the future.The customer has emailed with the message below, he was a happy chappy.
“Good Afternoon Gents
I’ve just been sorting out some paperwork and came across a quote for our coupler test box. I then thought to myself that I never thanked you properly.Thank you very much. We tested our unit last month and had no problems with the test box at all. I really appreciate all the work you did and don’t know many, if any, companies who would have done such a good job.
Kind Regards”
Here are some photos of the project…
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