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Comment by Findeton

6 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.

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jacquesm  4 hours ago

Soldered eh? No wonder then that it broke.

  • exidy  3 hours ago

    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.

    • jacquesm  28 minutes ago

      Interesting. In dutch we use 'solderen' vs 'lassen', in German they use 'schweizen' and 'loten'.

      English has a third term like that as well called 'brazing', then there is silver solder (a high temperature version of soldering), in dutch we'd call that 'hardsolderen', whereas what the English call brazing we call oxy-acetyleen lassen (which is more of a process name by virtue of naming the ingredients).

      Soldadura autogeno and Soldadura en el arco (sp?) are what I think the modifiers used in Spanish to indicate brazing and (arc) welding.

    • duskwuff  2 hours ago

      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". :)

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