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- Wheeltapper abstract "A wheeltapper is a railway worker employed to check the integrity of train wheels and that axle boxes are not overheating.Typically employed at large railway stations and in goods yards, they tap wheels with a long-handled hammer and listen to the sound made to determine the integrity of the wheel; cracked wheels, like cracked bells, do not sound the same as their intact counterparts (they do not "ring true").Wheeltappers also check that the axle boxes are not overly hot by using the back of their hand.Although wheeltappers still operate in some eastern European countries, in countries with modern planned maintenance procedures and line-side defect detectors, such as hot box detectors, wheeltappers are redundant. The job is mostly associated with the steam age. Wheeltappers were vital to the smooth running of the railways as a cracked wheel or overheated axle bearing would lead to delays and the loss of revenue. These were particularly common in the 19th century, when axle bearings were lubricated by grease. At this time, metallurgy was a more haphazard science and thus it was impossible to test steel wheels for cracks: the role of the wheeltapper was of crucial importance.".
- Wheeltapper thumbnail Wheel_tapper.jpg?width=300.
- Wheeltapper wikiPageID "8421233".
- Wheeltapper wikiPageRevisionID "597564332".
- Wheeltapper hasPhotoCollection Wheeltapper.
- Wheeltapper subject Category:Transport_occupations.
- Wheeltapper type Abstraction100002137.
- Wheeltapper type Act100030358.
- Wheeltapper type Activity100407535.
- Wheeltapper type Event100029378.
- Wheeltapper type Occupation100582388.
- Wheeltapper type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Wheeltapper type TransportOccupations.
- Wheeltapper type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Wheeltapper comment "A wheeltapper is a railway worker employed to check the integrity of train wheels and that axle boxes are not overheating.Typically employed at large railway stations and in goods yards, they tap wheels with a long-handled hammer and listen to the sound made to determine the integrity of the wheel; cracked wheels, like cracked bells, do not sound the same as their intact counterparts (they do not "ring true").Wheeltappers also check that the axle boxes are not overly hot by using the back of their hand.Although wheeltappers still operate in some eastern European countries, in countries with modern planned maintenance procedures and line-side defect detectors, such as hot box detectors, wheeltappers are redundant. ".
- Wheeltapper label "Wheeltapper".
- Wheeltapper sameAs m.0b77f61.
- Wheeltapper sameAs Q17148990.
- Wheeltapper sameAs Q17148990.
- Wheeltapper sameAs Wheeltapper.
- Wheeltapper wasDerivedFrom Wheeltapper?oldid=597564332.
- Wheeltapper depiction Wheel_tapper.jpg.
- Wheeltapper isPrimaryTopicOf Wheeltapper.
