Making My Own Rail Benders

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Ай бұрын

On a volunteer day, I found one of our volunteers bending the rail to fix some of the kinks in the curves. So, I decided to help him out by fabricating a pair of rail benders out of some scrap I had laying around. This was something suggested by a viewer awhile back, and this seemed to be the best time to make it happen.
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@richardperry5743 Ай бұрын

Like your rail bender, Aaron! Looks like that will make for less derailments & a smoother ride! Glad you have had some help, your friends all seem to be quite nice folks, take care!

@royreynolds108 Ай бұрын

Sighting along the top of the rail is a better determination of high and low spots in the track. To keep from laying on the ground, take a handle and attach a mirror to the end at a 45* angle; make it long enough to stand without bending over and hold it even with the top of the rail so you can see along the rail top. Sighting along the rail is how I use to check for dips and high spots when I was a track foreman.

@TopperMachineLLC Ай бұрын

When I saw the title, I thought you were making a rail bender for bending stock rails in a switch. You were actually making a profiler, totally cool. Next thing you should build is a replica Mark III Tamper, jacking, aligning, and tamping all in one. It is like riding on glass the first train over.

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

I long for a Harsco 6700 production tamper. Maybe one day I'll build one. I need to rebuild my ballast hopper first.

@Sharpie1531 Ай бұрын

That table is awesome. Useful for so many applications

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

I do like that welding table.

@artillerest43rdva7 Ай бұрын

great innovation for adjusting the track to match side to side! so did the level truck show the sides matching once again? great idea.

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

I leveled it out again, and it is a much smoother piece of track to run through.

@DieCastoms Ай бұрын

on the back side of that tool(s) add another set of teeth so that the tool(s) will fit down from the top to adjust the curve in the rail and not only the slope.

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

Not a bad idea.

@tryingagain14 Ай бұрын

Would it be useful to have a masons level? I'm thinking you could ues it as a straight edge to run along the rail to find dips

@peterthornton8520 Ай бұрын

Very interesting way of adjusting the rail. Love the engineering behind it.

@317lawnboy Ай бұрын

I’d get a 4 to 6 foot straight edge and lay on the tracks to find the hi/ low spots that needs attention. A cheap level from harbor freight would work quite well.

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

@@317lawnboy Not a bad idea.

@dremein Ай бұрын

I'm a little curious why you don't use steel rail instead of aluminum?

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

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@insAneTunA Ай бұрын

Here is an idea, why don't you put the new fancy landscaping tool on that trolley that you use for your spirit level and broom to measure all the bumps and valleys in your track? Or is that landscaping tool not accurate enough for that?

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

It's only accurate to a few inches, and it works by picking it up and placing it down. Track leveling is best done with a tool that measures continuously.

@zaklex3165 Ай бұрын

Don't look through the camera...the camera will distort the image you're looking at(there's a reason why they say the camera adds 10 lbs to a persons picture).

@MillBrookRailroad Ай бұрын

The bottom part of my glasses do the same thing.