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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    Here’s a bearing pic. The other pic is where the spacer sits above the bearing and making contact with it.
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    I think I could if I had old spacers and some drillbits and maybe a angle grinder I could make the appropriate grove enough for an experiment on either an axle bearing or a mock axle bearing to heat up and then show how it would work it could be done relatively cheaply. It would take a little...
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    If I were in a railroad shop with junk parts pile in the back I could probably make a test prototype and show its function.
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    1. Interesting, where did you get all this experience? Seems like you really know what you are talking about. answer. It’s not like I’m a RR engineer or build locomotives or anything like that. I have some hands on experience owned tractor trailers heavy equipment back in the day fixing...
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    By the way this is part a (variant) Of another invention that I have that I’m going to publish here as soon as I can get my act together with it, so that’ll be attached to this thread. Although this one (variant) is the perfected version of that.
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    Yes it can be used on modern day train’s probably freight is the best use right now. You see it’s low tech like as if it was from the late 1800s early 1900s so it’s low-cost and easy to implement. Also, take into consideration that if you have a flammable product in one of your train cars, this...
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    Train Derailment Detection System or axle bearing overheat detection system

    This invention is for detecting and locating overheating axle bearings to prevent derailments. It is open source for all to use. I am the inventor and I have made it public.
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