L.M. Ericsson Ringklocka KLD 43

This is a short video showing you the loudest thing in my room.

It's a railroad crossing bell, manufactured by L.M. Ericsson.
This bell runs with 12 volts DC or 24 volts DC. I'm using my old ROCO-transformer to run it with 0-15 volts DC.
It's not only the loudest, it's one of the heaviest - it weights almost 20 kilograms, and only the bell itself weights about 10 kilograms.

I'm not so sure about the manufacturing date, but I think that this bell was made in 1977.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• railroad
• crossing
• bell
• warning
• äänivaroitus
• tasoristeys
• LME
• L.M.
• Ericsson
• ringklocka
• plankorsning

[SwedishTrainSL]

dear livesteamer, how did you get that bell? where? in a railway museum? I need a answer, please!

[LiveSteamer]

This bell was given to me by a fellow railfan, and he said that he got this bell from somewhere around city of Turku, but he was not sure about this - that's just what he recalled when I asked for some background information about this bell.

He got it from a level crossing which was just being removed from service. Right now the bell is in storage, and there are few rusted screws that need to be replaced at some point.

[kurvjuh]

LiveSteamer, I have couple of questions:

1. How did you get that bell in your own room?

2. It's even legal to own such thing in your room for own purposes?

[LiveSteamer]

You can get these legally from Sweden. ;)

[kurvjuh]

@InterCitySv But could you at least provide me the link to the website that you're talking about?

[InterCitySv]

@kurvjuh At Banverkets materialservice, you can also find signals and other rail stuff there! =)

[kurvjuh]

Bombardier makes them nowadays?

Phew, I thought these would became more scarce, as in Finalnd some modern crossings like Spede have electronical bells, rather LME-styled bells, but where did you get the information? eBay, perhaps?

[SwedishTrainSL]

those bells still makes, but not by lme. bombardier makes them, and they cost over 2000$

[pioneerz450]

we hav those in sweden there are lots of em they are at evry controlled railroad crossing.

SWE vi har ju kvar dessa i sverige de sitter ju vid varenda overvakade övergång

[Kyosuke1989]

Asjanmukanen kello..