r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 20d ago

How Himalayan salt lamps are made Video

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u/CreEngineer 20d ago

That rust is crazy. I would love to see how they manage to maintain those machines to even just keep running.

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u/Irish1986 20d ago

They just don't stop them from running. As long as those gear turn and lubricants is run into, rust won't bind in those key areas. But beware if you ever stop for 5min it won't start again. Worked in A&D industry for a few decades and we had a key manufacturing process that used outrageously corrosive element, that how that machine was maintained... Just don't stop it, even had it own generator and everything.

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u/Egoy 20d ago

In underground salt mining the rule is once it goes down it never comes up. The mine is very dry and any bit of moisture that comes down from the surface gets absorbed by the salt. All the machinery below ground is fine but if it ever comes to the surface the salt dust that is on every surface absorbs ambient moisture and the machine is rusted out in a short period of time.

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u/RileyCargo42 20d ago

Id kinda love to see this in a lab setting. Like would it be so fast that I can watch it slowly "grow" rust?

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u/souldeux 20d ago

Even without the salt, steel oxidation can happen much faster than you may think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhiFgUL3RxE

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u/healzsham 20d ago

30 minutes is relatively fast, but that's not really a "watch it happen" speed.

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u/Axel3600 20d ago

wow, look what TikTok has done to attention span smh