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How hard is it to break off a piece of rail?

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 09:34:25 No.1845776 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1845808 >>1846002 >>1846138 >>1846148 >>1846874 >>1847495 >>1847633

How much force would it realistically take to dislodge a small section of railway line?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 09:59:54 No.1845781 Report

Quoted By: >>1845782

About 6897.28 N according to my calculations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:08:49 No.1845782 Report

Quoted By: >>1845783

>>1845781
I expected higher than that, what are your calculations based on?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:13:19 No.1845783 Report

Quoted By: >>1845784

>>1845782
You do know that force is a vector and not a scalar, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:18:06 No.1845784 Report

Quoted By: >>1845788

>>1845783
I'm not gonna pretend to know a lot about physics but yes, force goes in a certain direction so its a vector. But whats your point?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:41:17 No.1845788 Report

Quoted By: >>1845791 >>1846111

>>1845784
The force needs a direction, and materials have different resistances to deformation/stress depending on which axis they receive the force from. "Sinking" a rail is pretty hard, bending it from the side not as much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 10:59:20 No.1845791 Report

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>>1845788
I see. The type of action i thought of was pulling the rail from the side

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 12:04:55 No.1845808 Report

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>>1845776
About 3.50 kN

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 18:09:06 No.1845880 Report

Quoted By: >>1847495

Why are you trying to derail a train?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Aug 2022 20:16:44 No.1845896 Report

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>How much force would it realistically take
Depends on the length of your lever, Archimedes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 02:27:23 No.1846002 Report

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>>1845776
It's as easy as breaking off a piece of a Kit-Kat bar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 13:30:51 No.1846111 Report

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>>1845788
*train goes round a bend and the tracks snap*

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 17:19:12 No.1846138 Report

Quoted By: >>1846143

>>1845776
a moose could do it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 17:41:37 No.1846143 Report

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>>1846138
a moose once bit my sister

Not Your Dad REEEEE !!OS7PxlLkFR/

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Not Your Dad REEEEE !!OS7PxlLkFR/ Wed 31 Aug 2022 17:45:39 No.1846144 Report

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>ctrl-F
>herbert the saw
>Phrase not found
Shameful display

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Aug 2022 17:53:54 No.1846148 Report

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>>1845776
About half a brick of C4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Sep 2022 23:33:00 No.1846874 Report

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>>1845776
Not hard with the right tool.

https://youtu.be/lQc9nlaQ2H0

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 23:18:57 No.1847495 Report

Quoted By: >>1847499

>>1845776
A rail track could be blown up with as little as 75 grams of TNT provided the right trapezium/rhomboid shaped charge is used.
>>1845880
I second this question.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Sep 2022 23:38:09 No.1847499 Report

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>>1847495
wouldn't a properly sized parabolic shape concentrate the blast better, making you need less TNT?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 05:13:27 No.1847633 Report

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>>1845776
Are you the same dude from /diy/?
The dude who wanted to tie a rope to a rail and his truck and try to drive away to dislodge it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Sep 2022 18:15:20 No.1847772 Report

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I feel that it would be quite difficult, OP.

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