by Amtrak7
In the 1980s, after most of the R9's were retired, they still had thousands of R9 lubricator pads around. What has become of those pads today?
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Railhead wrote:What are lubricator pads?My guess would be wool waste pads for the journals and motor-axle bearings. They are used to wick oil from a reservoir to the bearing surface. They were made obsolete by roller bearings.