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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Sat Mar 04, 2000 6:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | How do you scrap a Budd car? |
A previous thread noted that an SPV Budd car had been scrapped at the company's Red Lion plant. Which causes me to ask, how do you scrap a Budd car? Stainless steel doesn't burn like regular steel, and the bodies are resistance welded into pretty much one piece. Is this a plasma-arc process, or melt-and-blow with acetylene?<br> ryarger1@nycap.rr.com |
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| Author: | Dave [ Sat Mar 04, 2000 10:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How do you scrap a Budd car? |
I might suggest just leaving it alone for 50 years.....<p>Are you making some plans we should know about, Bob?<p>Dave<br> lathro19@idt.net |
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| Author: | Aarne H. Frobom [ Sun Mar 05, 2000 1:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How do you scrap a Budd car? |
They rip apart pretty easy with a big enough power shovel. Not as easy as a Pullman Standard car, though. Kind of like squashing and folding up cardboard boxes.<p>Aarne H. Frobom<br> froboma@mdot.state.mi.us |
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