Sorry to say, your #16 sheet-metal plus a couple 2x6’s on either side with bolts is not heavy enough nor strong enough to consistently and repeatedly do the job on the scale required. 16guage is about as rigid as a wet noodle. I would go with 1/8", 3/16" or even 1/4inch sheet metal.
However, please, do NOT let my critique discourage you from building and using this demonstrator repeatedly until you can crowd-source the necessary repairs and upgrades.
Personally, I don’t care if having their vertebra repeatedly used to sound the flimsiest gong possible makes a few billionaires last moments that much more painful and humiliating.
It is worth mentioning though, the French Revolution did not have access to semi-auto, reliable, firearms, while both bullets and guns are, today, both plentiful and cheap.
#16 would be comical when it catches on a vertebra and bends. You don’t want it too thick, though, as the mechanism relies on the weight, angle, and relative thinness of the blade to slice through. I’d recommend 1/8" with a concrete cap for weight. I’m torn between 304 and 5160, though.
304 Stainless steel? Your soup spoon is made from that. Great for corrosion resistant items that don’t need much hardness. 3xx stainless is also considered easier to machine. Perhaps you meant something from the 440 series A through C? Those are hardenable.
5160 is a spring steel alloy and would be excellent. Except it’s not very corrosion resistant.
I mean, if the edge is sharp enough, the thickness of the rest hardly matters. As for the need for repeated attempts as-specefied, I think God says it best:
I’m no engineer nor experienced in revolutions, but I think the pricing is woefully low for the amount of high-quality materials and lumber needed to make this functional enough to be used enough times to finalize a regime change. I would estimate just from my own home projects that it would probably be closer to a thousand dollars or even more if you care about good parts, working hinges and tracks for the blade, etc.
Firstly I know it might be slower to take more than one go to take a head off but it really builds anticipation for the crowd and especially for the next in line.
Secondly sometimes the traditional method has lasting effects that strike fear and education into the minds of the population and the elites. It would be better to educate the 1% in how many times the heads bounce in the town square when the basket is full than to have unbridled capitalism stealing from the workers.
I don’t want them afraid of being caught-out in public. I want them afraid of being murdered in their beds, in their mcmansions, of having rattlesnakes dumped in the air vents of their bunkers. Catch them when they are trying to flee the country, absolutely, but frankly, most aren’t worth the spectacle and resources of a guillotine, or transporting them to such.
I’m not interested in educating people whose mode of being should not exist. For those worth educating, the deterrent of a guillotine is a comical hassle versus a bullet to the head - there’s good reason modern revolutions use the latter.
Sorry to say, your #16 sheet-metal plus a couple 2x6’s on either side with bolts is not heavy enough nor strong enough to consistently and repeatedly do the job on the scale required. 16guage is about as rigid as a wet noodle. I would go with 1/8", 3/16" or even 1/4inch sheet metal.
However, please, do NOT let my critique discourage you from building and using this demonstrator repeatedly until you can crowd-source the necessary repairs and upgrades.
Personally, I don’t care if having their vertebra repeatedly used to sound the flimsiest gong possible makes a few billionaires last moments that much more painful and humiliating.
It is worth mentioning though, the French Revolution did not have access to semi-auto, reliable, firearms, while both bullets and guns are, today, both plentiful and cheap.
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#16 would be comical when it catches on a vertebra and bends. You don’t want it too thick, though, as the mechanism relies on the weight, angle, and relative thinness of the blade to slice through. I’d recommend 1/8" with a concrete cap for weight. I’m torn between 304 and 5160, though.
304 Stainless steel? Your soup spoon is made from that. Great for corrosion resistant items that don’t need much hardness. 3xx stainless is also considered easier to machine. Perhaps you meant something from the 440 series A through C? Those are hardenable.
5160 is a spring steel alloy and would be excellent. Except it’s not very corrosion resistant.
I mean, if the edge is sharp enough, the thickness of the rest hardly matters. As for the need for repeated attempts as-specefied, I think God says it best:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnx6n1lj4hU&t=252s
I’m no engineer nor experienced in revolutions, but I think the pricing is woefully low for the amount of high-quality materials and lumber needed to make this functional enough to be used enough times to finalize a regime change. I would estimate just from my own home projects that it would probably be closer to a thousand dollars or even more if you care about good parts, working hinges and tracks for the blade, etc.
I have two comments:
Firstly I know it might be slower to take more than one go to take a head off but it really builds anticipation for the crowd and especially for the next in line.
Secondly sometimes the traditional method has lasting effects that strike fear and education into the minds of the population and the elites. It would be better to educate the 1% in how many times the heads bounce in the town square when the basket is full than to have unbridled capitalism stealing from the workers.
I don’t want them afraid of being caught-out in public. I want them afraid of being murdered in their beds, in their mcmansions, of having rattlesnakes dumped in the air vents of their bunkers. Catch them when they are trying to flee the country, absolutely, but frankly, most aren’t worth the spectacle and resources of a guillotine, or transporting them to such.
I’m not interested in educating people whose mode of being should not exist. For those worth educating, the deterrent of a guillotine is a comical hassle versus a bullet to the head - there’s good reason modern revolutions use the latter.