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Anonymous Sat 11 Jun 2022 22:59:23 No.1810696 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1810706 >>1810755 >>1810759 >>1812201

Why don't they use electricity to butt weld the two tracks together? A diesel electric locomotive generates something like 2 megawatts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Jun 2022 23:52:06 No.1810706 Report

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>>1810696
Because that would require taking a train out of service and its cheaper to use thermite.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 00:08:02 No.1810713 Report

Quoted By: >>1810714

why dont they just make the rail out of one piece instead of doing all this dumb welding shit

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 00:10:51 No.1810714 Report

Quoted By: >>1810727

>>1810713

Anon... anon ffs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 01:06:22 No.1810722 Report

Quoted By: >>1810726

Simply build the rail out of snakes that are biting the snake in front of them

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 01:13:36 No.1810726 Report

Quoted By: >>1810728

>>1810722
Of course... But how do you stop the snakes from eating more than one bite, thereby breaking the rail?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 01:19:02 No.1810727 Report

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>>1810714
now post the frame where george kisses him and he actually leans in and returns it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 01:19:31 No.1810728 Report

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>>1810726
Snakes don’t bite chunks off things. They swallow them whole. The problem will be that some parts of the rail will be fat where it will be several snakes thick

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 03:27:30 No.1810755 Report

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>>1810696
they do have a robotic welding train that does that
but its expensive to maintain and takes a while to set up, so its only used for big jobs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 03:53:59 No.1810759 Report

Quoted By: >>1810909 >>1811667

>>1810696
>Why don't they use electricity to butt weld the two tracks together?
First of all, they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NF_VycdtEM
But this is not as versatile as 2 men with grinder and bucket of thermite.

I'm pretty sure you can stick weld rail if you really want, but it would take forever, and prob will be a shit weld given how many electrodes you'd need to burn.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 09:36:08 No.1810835 Report

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i'm not reading any of this thread. "butt weld" aahahahahahaha

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 13:10:20 No.1810909 Report

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>>1810759
That is exactly what I was looking for. It looked like it requires less electricity than I imagined.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 15:31:09 No.1810968 Report

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it works, but it can be an arse and if done quickly can easily fuck up a few weeks/months later without anyones knowledge.

UK used to have a bunch but gave them up as they were more expensive than thermit welding and generally didn't work as well

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:12:19 No.1811667 Report

Quoted By: >>1811779

>>1810759
>supra roadflex
why are boomers so prone to coming up with cringe names for their machines

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jun 2022 06:27:55 No.1811779 Report

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>>1811667
You misspelled "awesome"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jun 2022 13:05:58 No.1812201 Report

Quoted By: >>1812215

>>1810696
Arc and plasma does only surface welds. You need the weld on the full area of the two joining track segments, as if they were casted as one piece. Other than thermite, friction would do that, but you can't use friction for tracks

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jun 2022 13:47:21 No.1812215 Report

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>>1812201
You can arc weld rails. But is it practical?

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