cutting rail track

sardine · Apr 23, 2013

got some bits of railway track that i'm putting in a boat as ballast, i need to trim some of them to length with oxy propane torch, anyone one know what nozzle size would handle that ?

Eastblock · Apr 23, 2013

Where do you get track from? I've been trying to find some to use as an anvil.

wyn · Apr 24, 2013

I'm sure i used to use a 1/16 th nozzle for general sort of chopping things up and it would handle railwayline ok.

rory1 · Apr 24, 2013

There's a nozzle cutting thickness table on the last few pages of the BOC booklet in the link below

http://www.boconline.co.uk/internet.lg.lg.gbr/en/images/BOC-operating-safety-instructions410_39396.pdf

As Wynn says a 1/16 nozzle will be ample.

langy · Apr 24, 2013

Eastblock said:
Where do you get track from? I've been trying to find some to use as an anvil.

My mate gets lumps now and again off the railway, pm me if I can help, luckily your not far from me as it would be a bitch to post :laughing:

chevy2 · Apr 24, 2013

langy said:
My mate gets lumps now and again off the railway, pm me if I can help, luckily your not far from me as it would be a bitch to post

That short piece of rail track you gave me is very handy as an anvil type thing, gets plenty of use :cool:

Titus A Duxass · Apr 24, 2013

chevy2 said:
That short piece of rail track you gave me is very handy as an anvil type thing, gets plenty of use

I've got a 4" piece in the garage that gets used a lot.

zardoz · Apr 24, 2013

I tried to get some for the last 5 years. Then a few months back I actually found a huge long section by the side of an old track thats now a cycleway. Needless to say it would take me several hundred junior hacksaws to get through it!

Its still there. I'm still looking!

overload · Apr 24, 2013

Ask your local railway heritage centre. They might feel generous sometimes! :whistle:

Plenty of them up and down the country. Notwork Fail sometimes donate used mainline rail to these centres so there's always a chance they'll have some lying around.

Justme · Apr 24, 2013

zardoz said:
I tried to get some for the last 5 years. Then a few months back I actually found a huge long section by the side of an old track thats now a cycleway. Needless to say it would take me several hundred junior hacksaws to get through it!

Its still there. I'm still looking!

Cordless angle grinder & a hand full of discs?

Petrol driven slab cutter with the right disc?

ChrisJ · Apr 24, 2013

Just asked a mate who works for the railway, he said the new lengths come pre cut to size, but he will keep an eye out for me....

wyn · Apr 24, 2013

Quarries usually have chutes lined with railwaytrack to stop them wearing out.....could be another place to find some.

bigbadbugga · Apr 24, 2013

zardoz said:
I tried to get some for the last 5 years. Then a few months back I actually found a huge long section by the side of an old track thats now a cycleway. Needless to say it would take me several hundred junior hacksaws to get through it!

Its still there. I'm still looking!

If you are ever coming up my way (whiston L35)give me a shout, I have a 4 foot length in the workshop, I'll cut you a foot if you like

Give me some notice though, it takes the Clarke bandsaw a few hours to chew through it :laughing:

chevy2 · Apr 24, 2013

Justme said:
Cordless angle grinder & a hand full of discs?

Petrol driven slab cutter with the right disc?

petrol cutter should eat through it with those 14" discs but the cordless grinder will most likely bind up when it gets about 1/2" deep into it.

nodeward · Apr 24, 2013

id love a bit for an anvil as well, be really useful, one of those things i always forget about until someone mentions it again!

mike 109444 · Apr 24, 2013

You could always try asking one of thoses nice traveling folk that are around the tracks tidying up all that nasty messy copper wire that some fool has laid near the lines, tu tu :whistle:

brightspark · Apr 24, 2013

mike 109444 said:
You could always try asking one of thoses nice traveling folk that are around the tracks tidying up all that nasty messy copper wire that some fool has laid near the lines, tu tu

theres 3 ten foot lengths 10 yards from my house next to the railway line :whistle:

if u fancy a big pair of ba ./././s lifting it its there for the taking

sardine · Apr 24, 2013

rory1 said:
There's a nozzle cutting thickness table on the last few pages of the BOC booklet in the link below

http://www.boconline.co.uk/internet.lg.lg.gbr/en/images/BOC-operating-safety-instructions410_39396.pdf

As Wynn says a 1/16 nozzle will be ample.

thanks mate, i only have a 1/32"

( i have 10 new BOC acetelene 1/8 th nozzles if anyone wants them, only going in the copper scrap bin otherwise)

madkayaker · Apr 24, 2013

mike 109444 said:
You could always try asking one of thoses nice traveling folk that are around the tracks tidying up all that nasty messy copper wire that some fool has laid near the lines, tu tu

Don't forget you can't give cash for scrap any longer

zardoz · Apr 28, 2013

madkayaker said:
Don't forget you can't give cash for scrap any longer

Course you can. I have weighed in some ally twice lately, got cash both times.

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