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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

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  • Something frustrating that happened to you
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So how’s it going?

  • thevoyagekayaking
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    2 months ago

    The line is out of action while deicing is taking place, but only for the shortest amount of time necessary.

    That’s what I’m thinking, yes. Although you could pump a lot of heat into the pantograph, and pair it up with a scraper at the same time.

    It wouldn’t be able to run line speed, but it would be reasonably fast, I’d think.

    • DaveOPMA
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      2 months ago

      Ah yes paired with a scaper that would be quite effective. I was thinking you melt it but then the heat is gone and the cable is still frozen so it would refreeze. But if you soften it with the heat then scape it, that could work quite well.

      Probably not much chance of getting it implemented in Wellington, though. There might be a slim chance if there was an off the shelf solution, but from my reading into this is seems everything is quite custom.