Bogie assembly stand - Products - Brief Article

Railway Age, July, 2002

The RAILQUIP Model RQXL85 Bogie Assembly Stand was designed to disassemble, assemble, and test dual motor bogies. The entire Bogie Assembly Stand can be adjusted to different working heights to offer a comfortable position for a technician up to six feet in height, with adjustable positioning of axles and gear boxes during lifting and mounting of frames. For most maintenance work, the Bogie Assembly Stand is independent from the main workshop crane by using the jib crane for lifting and movement of smaller parts including traction motors. The Bogie Assembly Stand is designed for all light rail vehicle bogies with a transverse traction motor arrangement and offers safe, easy, and ergonomic dismantling, assembly, and testing of bogies. It is equipped with:

* One Main Support Frame.

* Four Bogie Wheel Supports, each equipped with two rollers, including two adjustable bogie wheel supports to compensate for worn wheels.

* Two Gear Box Support Stands equipped with two hydraulic cylinders of two metric tons lifting capacity for height adjustment.

* One set of four Locking Devices connected to the main frame and bogie.

* One Removable Pressure Test Beam for bogie testing at 30,000 pounds equipped with two removable supports. The crossbeam is equipped with two swivel head pressure heads and two hydraulic cylinders at 7.7 tons capacity.

* One Compressed Air Powered Hydraulic Pump System.

* Four stationary eight-ton capacity electrically powered lift columns with a computerized central control unit.

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