Comment by Findeton
4 hours ago
Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.
4 hours ago
Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.
This was a track laid a few weeks ago? I think that's the problem.
Soldered eh? No wonder then that it broke.
English is unusual in that we have both Germanic "weld" and Latinate "solder" and they've acquired different meanings. Spanish (and other Romance languages) use the term "solder" (soldado) for both.
As an aside: Chinese also uses the same term for both (焊接), and the standard English translation is "welding". This can lead to some confusion when Chinese manufacturers start talking about e.g. "surface-mount welding". :)