What does a real KF Trainwreck Airbrake Look Like?

selloutrr · Post by **selloutrr** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:31 pm

What does a real KF Trainwreck Airbrake Look Like?

Just curious how a true airbrake looks cosmetically

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:38 am

I swore I had a TW airbrake picture but all I could find was this one, sorry.

Bruciep07 · Post by **Bruciep07** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:20 am

I found this pic...

[IMG:217:182]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b355/ ... rbrake.jpg[/img]

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:21 am

Well how come we aren't building them that way then?

Looks like a cast box not sheet metal. Nice color too.

selloutrr · Post by **selloutrr** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:36 am

isn't that a komet issue?

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:45 am

Here is some info I just got from a zip file.

Mark

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:01 am

I saw on this site

http://www.electronicsdot.com/Itm130312 ... rk_II.aspx

The the above is: This is an unused Kendrick Power Attenuator called the Trainwreck Airbrake Mark II.

What did the real TW airbrake look like?

geetarpicker · Post by **geetarpicker** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:19 am

The earliest ones I've seen were made in thin aluminum BUD boxes, same type as the chassis though long and thin. Label maker and all, very home made looking but cool as expected. Same big brown power resistors, a Lorin (possibly) rotary switch with 5 or 6 positions, no reostat, slave out, 2 speaker jacks. Ken called it a "Air Brake Power Reducer" and marked it 75 watts maximum in.

selloutrr · Post by **selloutrr** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:08 am

could you sketch a pic?

any guess on the dimensions?

2tone · Post by **2tone** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:34 pm

all Ken's were long aluminum boxes, real homemade. then Alessandro made some for a while with the same parts and boxes, with painted logo. Then Kendrick made some but were not the same spec and build. Then komet made some. Then Dr Z made the later official licensed ones.

Bruciep07 · Post by **Bruciep07** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:43 pm

So are the pictures that Mark and I posted above actually made by Kendrick?

selloutrr · Post by **selloutrr** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:45 pm

yep and the link photo is a Dr.Z

so far nothing original is posted, though cool examples

M Fowler · Post by **M Fowler** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:52 pm

I found a zip file showing the complete Kendrick AB if some one wants to build one of those. Lots of good pictues of the circuit.

Mark

v-verb · Post by **v-verb** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:30 pm

2tone wrote:all Ken's were long aluminum boxes, real homemade. then Alessandro made some for a while with the same parts and boxes, with painted logo. Then Kendrick made some but were not the same spec and build. Then komet made some. Then Dr Z made the later official licensed ones.

I have an Alessandro one. I'll get pics in a day or 2

geetarpicker · Post by **geetarpicker** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:46 am

OK, you twisted my arm enough

GK

[img:600:505]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-10/ ... rbrake.jpg[/img]

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