Carbon rod processing line - video

Carbon rod processing line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0gKr5YomE

0:27 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC-AXV54nMU

Center rods for VERY big carbon-zinc батарейки? That would be a я cell? :)

That would indeed be a battery to behold.
Probably there's one plant producing even bigger ones that could carry the "я" label, or:

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Reminds me of a cartoon in Крокодил, back in the early eighties where the director of a Steel Kombinat
called the Minister of Industrial Production, reporting that the 5 year plan for the Nail Factory # 47 already had been achieved in 1 year.
In the workshop gantry crane there was hanging a single nail marked "20 000 Kg".

OT: Aren't these electrodes for electric arc furnaces?

Cheers, good luck with the sell & move! ATB!

Юхан

I'm sure they're going to an ironworks, but a giant D-cell was too good to pass up. It's for King Kong's flashlight, you know he was sent to destroy NY by Putin, right?

Thanks on the house. At the rate they're going the house will be ready before we can get there. We've told our sponsor she can use it for her NGO gatherings whenever she wants before we get there (and with advance notice after we get there).