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  Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people. https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/ #Coxwell

  1581 days ago

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  ...on Musk has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some e...and get them tweak this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine 10 times faster than...

  1505 days ago

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  As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers. Progress revealed on HS2 tunnel boring machines https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/  

  1418 days ago

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  Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"

  Looking at the meeting point on the drawing, it looks like the English did the most of the boring and the French just waited!

  1834 days ago

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  Elon Musk was not a rocket scientist either. I am sure those rockets are more complicated than tunnel boring machines.

  1500 days ago

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  ...hat whenever an article has "Elon Musk" in it, the guy gets the benefit of the doubt even for radical things like 10 times faster boring tunnel boring machine. Then again, peopl...

  1500 days ago

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  ' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnel boring machine technology'? Are you serious? The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.

  1514 days ago

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  @Pankaj You were right about the tail brushes "The seal of Chundee’s tail skin brush went off when it was boring a sand aquifer that contained large volume of water. Bef...

  1517 days ago