Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] R3 Rail Gang part 1
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 09:16:35 -0600
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Yeah, I was guessing with that propane.  I.ve seen them use the mold boxes
to do the thermite and thought maybe they had automated it somehow for this
mechanical wonder.

Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
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USA


On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:47 AM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I think they use thermite at the shop for the quarter-mile lengths they
> take to the site. They use a arc (?) welder on a special truck (frame #9
> and more later) when they connect the longer sections
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> ric
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> > On Jan 2, 2020, at 7:57 AM, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
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> > I think they are thermite welding the joints
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