I've always wondered.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Why are some coal trains directionally sensitive?
Serious question.

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I'm guessing dust, once it's all blown into the crevices one way, you don't want to change it around.

Alternatively could be a mechanical unloading arm at the front of the carriage that trips a mechanism at the port to open the trap doors to dump the contents.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

It's probably to do with the magnetic pull of their load. Coal comes from underground & I bet its hormones get tangled up with other magnetic bits.[bighmmm]


If you believe that you'll believe any old ****.

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[bigrolf] I might be gullible, but that's a load of old tosh.

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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

I'm guessing dust, once it's all blown into the crevices one way, you don't want to change it around.

Alternatively could be a mechanical unloading arm at the front of the carriage that trips a mechanism at the port to open the trap doors to dump the contents.

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I think it has something to do with the bearings, but I have never seen a ratchet bearing.

I'm wondering why I'm getting requests from "Hot Russian Girls" and "Hot, Single Aussie Biker Girls" to "Available Hot Asian Girls".

Now, I know I'm to die for but, don't these girls realise how hot it is in Oz at the moment?

A sprag clutch is a form of ratchet bearing used in a lot of starter motors


AM

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[bigrolf] I might be gullible, but that's a load of old tosh.

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But but but, how do you know, if you don't know the answer already?


Just sayin'.[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Why are some coal trains directionally sensitive?
Serious question.

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So when the one driver hops out for a toilet stop,and then the train takes off,because he forgets to put the handbrake on,they know which way it will go.Thats with its 268 carriages.

Then they can organise to derail it,before it hits the next town.

Easy as[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by Saitch

I'm wondering why I'm getting requests from "Hot Russian Girls" and "Hot, Single Aussie Biker Girls" to "Available Hot Asian Girls".

Now, I know I'm to die for but, don't these girls realise how hot it is in Oz at the moment?

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Ask Homestar, he seems to be a chick magnet for 'hot Russian brides'.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

but I have never seen a ratchet bearing.

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Sprag Clutch? [biggrin]

Sprag clutch - Wikipedia

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It resembles a roller bearing but, instead of cylindrical rollers, non-revolving asymmetric figure-eight shaped sprags are used.

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.... why some people finish a sentence with a space before the full stop and then, without a space, commence the next sentence (see example below)? They do something similar with commas (and other punctuation marks).

The dog barked .The cow mooed .

Or others use the grave ` instead of an acute/apostrophe ' in punctuation? There is at least one person on here that does that.