Rail Guided Lift for Light Rail Vehicle Maintenance
Solution: | 205 |
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Industry | Rail Transit MRO and Manufacturing Solutions |
Model: | Rail Guided Lift for Light Rail Vehicle Maintenanc |
Type: | Single Stage Lift |
Actuation: | Hydraulic |
Dimensions: | 148" × 49" × 21 |
Travel: | 45" |
Capacity: | 4,500 lbs |

Overview
Handling Specialty was approached by a transit organization in Canada to design and manufacture a Custom material handling solution to assist technicians in removing and re-installing a large metal housing (containing electronics) weighing up to 4,500 lbs from the underside of Siemens transit vehicles.
A wobble plate was installed on top of the lift because the metal housing requires manipulation during the re-installation process, and the wobble plate allows movement 1” horizontally in all four directions.
In terms of positioning the lift itself, it is manually pushed under the transit vehicles via a set of steel flanged wheels designed to move on 56 1/2” standard gauge track. This material handling solution could also be motorized or self-propelled, and could also be engineered to remove trucks (bogies), DMU engines etc.
Features
- Lift equipped with top wobble plate allowing ±1" of horizontal adjustment (additional flexibility to remove and install equipment on the underside of vehicles) on all four sides
- Wobble plate set on ball roller transfers, and also includes heavy duty plastic guides on corners for flexibility
- Operated by hand-held pendant
- Includes various safety features
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