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0 pointsmmooss11mo ago0 comments

Building a machine, if it doesn't exist, to rapidly make small holes in concrete shouldn't be hard.

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It is not just holes. I didn't want to analyze the entire problem in full, but FIY, this is how a concrete sleeper looks like:

As you can see, the entire shape of the sleeper is adapted to the expected distance between rails.

In contrast, a wooden sleeper is just a straight log with no pre-made bumps for rails.

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It is not just holes. I didn't want to analyze the entire problem in full, but FIY, this is how a concrete sleeper looks like:

As you can see, the entire shape of the sleeper is adapted to the expected distance between rails.

In contrast, a wooden sleeper is just a straight log with no pre-made bumps for rails.

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