Not bad… not bad at all.
Very interesting stuff indeed. I don’t think I would want to have a suply of liquid nitrogin in my house though.[:O]
Rob
And you thought running out of a Dull-cote was a pain!
At least some spilt dullcoat on your hands doesn’t make them fall off.[:O]
Rob
He looked a little nervous didn’t he? Gee. I wonder why----[(-D]
Hum, well it was cool, but I did not warm up to the idea.
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Reference the title question - I don’t think so.
And such a hidebound cliche. If you’re modeling a maglev, model a (fillintheblank) maglev, not a nineteenth century teakettle. Or, at the least, model a diesel…
(I’ll keep teakettles, on wheels, happily occupied on the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo…)
Chuck (Modleing Central Japan in September, 1964)
From a modeling standpoint, representing a maglev train would be far easier to do using a conventional mechanical approach, rather than through the use of any exotic and down right dangerous technology.
Personally, because of the huge expense involved in its creation and the necessary financial return to make such systems viable, I have serious doubts that we’ll ever see any wide spread passenger application of this sort of transportation system even in the prototype.
CNJ831
I can see it now…MR forums, July 10, 2050. "Hey guys, help! My new Walthers Maglev commuter special keeps leaking liquid nitro. Last time it froze the wife’s poodle. Anyone have experience with the transfer valve o-rings?[:D]
How are the DCC makers going to control the hands needed to get the train started??
By the time this technology reaches the hobby market, will gas stations and hobby shops, if any still exist, sell liquid nitrogen?
Don’t you remember? MR had a great article on the “5-DCC” system in the April addition a few years back.
But, don’t you think the guy should have been wearing a lab coat? And a striped engineer’s hat?
I had to laugh at how causally the guy was handling the stuff. No gloves, safety glasses, or anything! Besides cold burns, it can also cause asphyxiation if enough evaporates and displaces the oxygen in the room. No warning or odor - you just drop from lack of oxygen. Very dangerous!
Needless to say, several violations of OSHA rules in that demonstration.
Oh, and mag-lev trains are already in use. China is currently the application leader.
Hey nothing new here for me, most of the time the wheels of my trainsa ren’t touching the track an they smoke as well. At least util I put the flames out.
After watching a demonstration in 5th grade where a woman was breaking stuff made brittle by Liquid Nitrogen I don’t think I wanna run the risk of spilling it on myself let alone any expensive models or even the entire layout.
OSHA doesn’t apply to idiots in their basements. It’s intended to keep our employers from intentionally or neglegently harming us. Dipsticks at home are free to remove fingers and toes due to frostbite at their pleasure.
Absolutely correct.
Occupational __S__afety and __H__ealth __A__dministration
This demonstration is in Dresden, Germany, which used to be East Germany - so OSHA rules certainly do not apply.
Now the question becomes, what does he do for an encore? A working true-to-prototype scale model of a V-2?
If you think LN2 is dangerous, try playing with LOX! One dab of fingertip oil, and BLOOIE!!!
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - safely)
Geee—I wonder----if I mixed it----[:-,][:-^]