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minus-squarek0e3@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoHow does the blade stay up if the string is all the way up there though? Do they have a locking mechanism to hold the blade in place? I always thought someone, or something, held the rope so the blade didn’t fall.
minus-squarehorsesaysweird@feddit.orglinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up3·3 days agoI’d put multiple locking mechanisms in. You definitely don’t want a single point of failure with machines that are designed to dismember people.
minus-squarek0e3@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoThat is a much more sensible approach to building guillotines than my idea of adding rocket boosters to speed up the blade.
How does the blade stay up if the string is all the way up there though? Do they have a locking mechanism to hold the blade in place? I always thought someone, or something, held the rope so the blade didn’t fall.
I’d put multiple locking mechanisms in. You definitely don’t want a single point of failure with machines that are designed to dismember people.
That is a much more sensible approach to building guillotines than my idea of adding rocket boosters to speed up the blade.