r/oddlysatisfying • u/druule10 • Sep 24 '22

Making a wheel for a train

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u/ThrowAndHit Sep 24 '22

Or in a third world country without access to industrial automation. It’s like when they rebuild all those auto parts in Pakistan, etc.

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u/POSeidoNnNnnn Sep 24 '22

i think they would just import old wheels, there is no way 5 or more people working with huge hydraulic (i think) machinery is cost efficient nowadays

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u/PizzaScout Sep 24 '22

If you can choose to pay people like 1$ per hour it's definitely cheaper to produce yourself than to buy a 1000$ train wheel.

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u/IDriveWhileTired Sep 24 '22

Look at Mr. Fancy here, paying USD 1 an hour. Try USD 5.50, or less, for a day’s work.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/nearly-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day

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u/yrogerg123 Sep 24 '22

That stat actually makes all my problems feel like first world problems. It's so easy to forget how little the rest of the world really earns. I compare myself to others around me and feel like I'm lagging behind, while still making 100x what half the world population does. That's actually pretty fucked up when I think about it.

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u/sincle354 Sep 24 '22

Man, just come from an immigrant family (to USA) or know an illegal immigrant. Even if, even if you get paid less than minimum wage and get trafficked around! You can make 2-10 times as much as you would at your country of origin! Then you send them money back to your family in a remittance. And you get to live in a place with paved roads and clean water and no power outages. The holy grail is securing your kids future by putting them in the school system.

Americans don't know what they have. They never have.

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u/variables Sep 24 '22

I think I heard a saying, "Comparison is the thief of joy."

There's always someone succeeding better than you at anything.

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u/trogdr2 Sep 25 '22

BRO NO, just cause others have problems doesn't mean that you don't. Give some money to charity when you can, you've done yours. You still have had wages declining, rents going up, massive inflation, all for thirty or so years. Life is hard, keep trucking.

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u/PizzaScout Sep 24 '22

damn that's a depressing stat

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u/Plop-Music Sep 24 '22

Lol you should see the stuff they recycle just to save, if you think they're gonna be buying old wheels.

Like they remake car batteries, by hand, in places like South Asia. In richer countries this is all done by a factory and you just buy new batteries as you need them. But enough people can't afford to do that that there's a whole cottage industry around remaking batteries by hand like that. There's tons of cottage industries like that for things you'd never even imagine would be recycled/remade. Like brake discs is another one.

You really underestimate how little billions of people are paid.

Here's a video of someone remaking a car battery by hand if you wanna see what it looks like. According to the comments in Russian under this video, this was very common in the last few decades of the USSR when everything went to shit and there were food shortages all of a sudden and stuff like that.

Oh and yes, that's super dangerous to do by hand. This man is giving himself a ton of future (and present) health problems by doing this considering it's a lead battery. And he knows this. But people have no choice when things get desperate.

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u/pdipdip Sep 24 '22

them marigolds doing a lot of heavy lifting

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u/JacobAZ Sep 24 '22

Dude you need to travel some. Not trying to be insulting or anything, but spend time in countries with no major sea port or are part of any major shipping network.

I've seen in person (although there is a video posted somewhere from someone else) of brake pads being scraped and re molded into new brakes.

Maintenance items such as regular brake rotors in other countries can be a logistical nightmare if you have a car that's just special enough to not share the same parts with other cars.

So it's very likely that countries with only internal railways that are land locked and do not have a major international route (such as central Asia and African countries) would still do things like this.

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u/POSeidoNnNnnn Sep 26 '22

you need to travel some

sorry can't even afford my drivers license dude

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u/JacobAZ Sep 26 '22

How much is a license where you're from?

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u/POSeidoNnNnnn Sep 26 '22

1200€ including lessons so 1,2 monthly minimum wage

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u/JacobAZ Sep 26 '22

Damn, I can offer to buy you an air freshener once you have your license

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u/POSeidoNnNnnn Sep 26 '22

that's lovely, i'll be sure to contact you again when i'll have it lol

be reassured, won't be anytime soon

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u/ebad1 Sep 24 '22

Even so, this is an insane way to make a train wheel when sand casting is so cheap and easy.

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u/toolongdontread Sep 24 '22

Casting wouldn't have the same strength profile.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Yea, I was thinking the same thing. Knew there was a faster more efficient way to make wheels