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Chapter 94 Steam Power

It doesn't matter if a person dies, as long as Lu Ke in front of him understands it. Qin Shou is very curious about what method Lu Ke uses to actually produce the same effect as wind welding. Without oxygen and acetylene, Qin Shou is really surprised, and he wants to know what Lu Ke did.

In this era, the main welding methods were cast welding, brazing, forging welding, and riveting welding. They were all small-scale welding methods. There has never been a large-scale welding method. Just use swords to carry them. The swords made are usually made of steel with the blade and the back of the knife is made of iron, and are generally made of heating and forging.

Ancient welding technology has been at the level of cast welding, forging, brazing and riveting welding for a long time. The heat sources used are fires, with low temperatures and inconcentration of energy, and cannot be used for welding large sections and long weld workpieces. They can only be used to make decorations, simple tools, daily equipment and weapons.

No wonder Qin Shou was so surprised now. The reason why he was surprised was that this civilized method had only one tube, which was not like the two oxygen and acetylene tubes in later generations and used to blend together. What's more, the method of extracting oxygen and acetylene, Qin Shou only knew the simpler oxygen in the former.

Under Qin Shou's gaze, Lu Ke was very eye-catching and leading the way. It was no secret anyway. Even if it was a secret, Lu Ke didn't have to hide it. As the saying goes, collecting money to eliminate disasters for others. Even if he did not receive the bounty from Wang Blacksmith, Lu Ke would tell what he knew, on the premise that he had any gaze or something.

Fortunately, Wang Blacksmith is not like others, with distrust or contempt, and he will raise it as long as he has a solution. Wang Blacksmith, who has followed Qin Shou for so long, knows one thing. There are many people, and he is also very smart. Knowing how to control his subordinates to develop their free performance is the bottom line.

With Qin Shou's expectant look on his face, Lu Ke brought Qin Shou to the pulp furnace. Before he could reach the pulp furnace, he felt the burning heat. The most peculiar thing was that not far from the pulp furnace, two sweaty workers stepped on the power unit and immediately replaced others and took turns to step out the power.

A simple, hollow three-foot long round can made a whistle sound. The round can emit hot air around it, and the inside is whistle and sound like the fan is rotating quickly. The pedal power unit of the two workers pedaled, the chain extends straight to the bottom of the round can, and the gears of the two bicycles, which are like the rear wheels, rotate quickly.

"..." Qin Shou saw the simple device in front of him, he suddenly became speechless. Qin Shou was not only impressed by the wisdom of such a sudden idea, but also without having to watch it. Qin Shou had already guessed its principle and could come up with such a way, and he was a wise man as stupid as he could think of it!

"Is this the principle of fire extraction?" Qin Shou suddenly turned his head and asked a question that he had no idea in his heart. Through this simple air extraction device, Qin Shou boldly guessed that there must be a fan that was exhausted inside. He used the principle of rapid air extraction to extract the high-temperature slurry flames and separate other pipes through the sealed tank.

"Ah? Island Master, you know?! Uh... That's right, it's the principle of sucking wind. It quickly thrust out the flames in the furnace, and passed through the smallest..." Lu Ke looked at Qin Shou with surprise. He didn't expect that he knew so much, and he thought that only he knew this unique technology.

Even though he was surprised, Lu Ke still expressed the principles and functions, and at the same time he told him about the whimsical ideas and such a method, which made Qin Shou and Wang Blacksmith, who were nodding repeatedly, became speechless, thinking in his mind that this was God's help.

It turned out that when the village blacksmith whom Lu Ke followed learned to make a blacksmith, he happened to encounter a strange thing. A strange ranger came to their village, carrying a strange-shaped, half-human high alchemy furnace-like iron thing to be restored. Two of them were broken on four heels, and they were made of cooked iron.

Because the iron smelting furnace in the village was too small at that time, it was impossible to re-melt. In addition, the Ranger customer refused to allow re-melt or something, and when he could not refuse, he was threatened by the other party to draw his sword and complete the repair within three days, otherwise he would be at his own risk.

The blacksmith in the village, who had no choice, thought hard for two days. He was about to face the disaster of not being able to fight for one day. Suddenly, the sparks and charcoal in the fire burst and splashed on the ground. The high-temperature charcoal melted the thin iron sheet spread on the ground. Lu Ke happened to step on the thin iron sheet on the ground and shaking it for a while.

The blacksmith suddenly found that when the iron sheet was burned through and shook, it slowly cooled and sewed between the two dots. What did the blacksmith think of? Since the Martian charcoal exploded and the iron sheet melted at high temperature and could be sewed together, then these cooked iron feet should be OK, right?

If it is purely used Martian charcoal, it will definitely not work. Then there is only one way to not damage the original body of the alchemy furnace, and to sew the broken feet together, that is, the high-temperature flame. How can we remove the high-temperature flame? This has become a problem. Just when the blacksmith was thinking hard, Lu K pulled the damper and added a wind to remind the blacksmith.

Later, the blacksmith used a simple air recharge device to extract the burning flames under the stove, and then used a hollow, not very sealed pipe to produce high-temperature flames, barely melting the two broken feet like the alchemy furnace. When they were about to burn them into molten iron, they were sewn and barely dealt with the matter.

With Qin Shou's strange expression on his face, Lu Ke breathed a sigh of relief after he finished discovering the process, saying, "Island Master, this is the case at that time. When Wang Tou had a problem, Lu thought of the original method. He did not expect that the island master had everything, which was even more perfect than Lu expected..."

Qin Shou nodded speechlessly, looked up and down at Lu Ke's young and energetic face, and said with great satisfaction: "Well, it's really perfect. Lu Ke, you're doing a good job. The owner of this island is very satisfied. Wang Blacksmith, isn't the arsenal missing a deputy head? Lu Ke is the one who takes the lead for the time being!"

"Ah? This..." Lu Ke thought he had heard it wrong, but he didn't expect that he had climbed to the top in just a few days after he came. The deputy head of the arsenal was empty. Lu Ke knew that some old iron smelting seniors had been working hard. The picture was to climb up to the throne below Zhang Kai, but he didn't expect that the throne would wave to him all at once.

"Yes, young master! Lu Ke, why are you still standing stupidly? Why don't you go to work quickly?" Wang Blacksmith had no objection to Qin Shou's arrangement. He also knew the meaning of Qin Shou's arrangement. He held his eyes and found that Lu Ke was still in a daze and did not wake up. He immediately gave up his words and went to work. Don't get in the way here or something.

"Yes, yes, thank you, Lord of Island, thank you!" After Lu Ke woke up, he nodded ecstatically and thanked him for leaving, leaving Qin Shou who shook his head speechlessly and Wang Blacksmith. Seeing that nothing happened, Wang Blacksmith directly invited Qin Shou to his own independent forging workshop.

After dealing with the talent of Lu Ke, Qin Shou directly followed Wang Blacksmith into his independent forging workshop, which is the place where the steam boiler was studied, the power heart of the steam train. Since it was still under research and development and exploration, Wang Blacksmith's forging workshop had only a formal team member with less than five people.

After Wang Blacksmith came in, the five young men continued to work hard without raising their heads. The messy ground was covered with piles of large and small parts on the floor, and in the narrow inner room dozens of square meters, there were draft pictures hanging on the walls, all of which were temporarily drawn. They were all mechanical operation schematic diagrams.

Wang Blacksmith took Qin Shou directly across the piles of parts on the ground, and said as he walked: "Young Master, these five people are teams brought by Wang from Chang'an. They have all received experiences taught by Wang in private. Now they are thinking about the power of the steam train. Young Master, this is something that Wang doesn't understand. Come and take a look!"

Wang Blacksmith took Qin Shou to the edge of the wall and pointed at the steam train diagram that Qin Shou had drawn. There was only this simple diagram. Wang Blacksmith and his five teams deciphered so many structural diagrams. Although most of the operating principles were deviated, they were almost the same.

Single-cylinder steam drive uses steam output pressure to promote the operation of the single-cylinder piston. The air inlet and exhaust port are simplified according to the diesel unit. Qin Shou looked at the steam driving schematic diagram and was extremely surprised. He really didn't dare to underestimate the potential of the young team under Wang Blacksmith.

Such seemingly simple but complex single-cylinder operating principles can be independently developed. It can be said that the Yangtze River's rear wave pushes the front wave, and one wave pushes the other to death! Through the above summary, a single-cylinder engine unit is summarized. Qin Shou looked left and right and saw that there were no defects, but the actual production test results were poor.

"Well, it's great. Is there any problem with this? It's much better than this young master!" Qin Shou looked up and down a few times, nodded and looked at Wang Blacksmith with confusion. He didn't know what problems he had in a hurry to find himself. There was no major problem with the steam single-cylinder engine unit on it?

Wang Blacksmith looked at Qin Shou with a dark face, and shook his head speechlessly and said, "Young Master, are you pretending to be confused or fake? It is impossible for you to have an engine unit without a transmission power unit? You can't steam trains, just like you said, emit fart-like gas and walk around by yourself, right?"

When Qin Shou heard that Wang Blacksmith was joking about the same topic, he almost staggered. When did this guy become so humorous? If the steam train only emits gas and can run, what would it take to do so? When Qin Shou was speechless, Wang Blacksmith pointed to an unfinished mechanical schematic diagram.

Wang Blacksmith said with fatigue: "This is the solution we thought of all night. We scrapped a lot of paper and drafts, and finally came up with a semi-finished model. Here, we link the steam engine unit, but we don't know how to generate continuous power, and the wave box method is not used..."

Wang Blacksmith explained while being sleepy. He had not had a rest for several days and was so sleepy that he could sleep soundly when he closed his eyes. If it weren't for the fear of delay or delaying other things, Wang Blacksmith would now want to lie down and have a good sleep. Out of responsibility and love, Wang Blacksmith has always insisted on his spirit of working to the end.

Qin Shou looked at the immature semi-finished product transmission map in entangledly, and took off the drawing with a headache and said, "Well, this picture is really not ideal. Wang Blacksmith, look at your eyes and your dark circles are running out. Let's do this, you go to bed first. I'm a headache for a while. This is the order!"

Qin Shou, who found Wang Blacksmith's strange appearance, immediately frowned. Wang Blacksmith's obvious dark circles and bloodshot eyes obviously showed no sign of rest for several days. Wang Blacksmith is Qin Shou's priceless treasure. If he is exhausted, most of the projects at hand will be completed without a leader.

"Uh... OK! Young Master Xie cares!" Wang Blacksmith did not expect Qin Shou to take care of him like this. He was moved and sued him while looking for a place to rest. Wang Blacksmith had long been accustomed to doing whatever he wanted, and did not bother to find a place to lie down and rest and sleep.

Woo~ Woooo... A steam stove with a sealed alchemy furnace in the workshop was boiling out, and a pipe went straight to another gas storage tank. In front of the gas storage tank was a small single-cylinder engine. After the steam was boiled, two mechanical students immediately connected the gas storage tank with the pipe.

The small steam single-cylinder engine operates from slow to fast under the action of steam compression exhaust circulation. Due to the lack of air control valves to limit the air pressure, the steam single-cylinder engine operates faster and faster. When the steam single-cylinder engine is swaying, the gas supply pipeline stops to emit white gas.

"Stop, put out the fire, stop burning, do you want to steam a sauna, right?" Qin Shou frowned and looked at the busy students. He immediately spoke to remind them to be careful. He made these steam in such a narrow workshop, let alone the sauna, and it was really lacking common sense.

After witnessing five students extinguishing the fire source in a hurry and emitting steam from the air pipe, Qin Shou shook his head speechlessly, picked up the driving drawings of Wang Blacksmith's semi-finished products and sat on the pile of parts aside, and desperately recalling the appearance and operation of the old steam train in his memory.

Qin Shou muttered while recalling the memories with a sad face, and painted the charcoal brushes in his hand. He said to himself: "The wheels with four fronts and one backs, four sets of main drive wheels. The lever diameter stretches, pushes and pulls forward. This is not right, this is not right, even more wrong. Damn, what's going on??"

Qin Shou, who was full of headache, struggled with the drive system. The steam train power system seemed simple, but was full of complex operating principles. Every place was designed to be cleverly. The four sets of power wheels must achieve work efficiency and frequency uniformly. It seems simple but full of problems.

A single-cylinder steam engine can design a circular wheel as a power output point, just like a tractor, belt drives a simple wave box. But the problem is that the train does not have a wave box, and Qin Shou will not seek trouble to explore anything, because that is impossible.

Simple wave box parts are unable to supply high-power to pull dead iron items weighing more than ten tons. Even if they can be pulled, the speed and quality will be greatly reduced. This is not the result that Qin Shou wants. Empty cars are as fast as donkeys. If they are filled with goods or something, wouldn’t it be like a snail? What’s the use of designing a steam train like that?

Qin Shou, who was thinking about it without any idea, refused to admit defeat. There is nothing rare in the world that can only be imagined and not done. Even if the steam train from the 18th century cannot be restored, it can independently develop a new steam power system, right? Qin Shou, who was unwilling to admit defeat, once again got into the dead end of his head.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and Qin Shou stayed in the endless workshop, racking his brains. He unknowingly produced a large pile of waste paper balls under his feet. He didn't know that several plates of cooled food were placed on the ground without touching a mouthful. When he was thirsty, he drank salt water that was so salty that it was bitter to replenish the lost water.

The five students in the workshop did not dare to disturb Qin Shou. When they were tired, they lay down and snoreed for a while. When they woke up, they continued their work. They took out parts according to the size of the steam engine and forged them. They did not dare to stay in an orderly and self-sufficient and self-sufficient manner for a moment.

When Wang Blacksmith woke up, his stomach made a rumbling sound. Wang Blacksmith didn't know how long he had slept. Anyway, the first thing he did when he woke up was that he felt very hungry. When Wang Blacksmith rubbed his sore eyes, he was shocked to find the sloppy Qin Shou's bad side.

The originally neat hair turned into a chicken coop, and the hair disappeared without knowing where it was thrown. The dirty round-necked shirt was covered with oil. The black leather boots under her feet were one by one, and they stepped on the pile of parts barefoot. The most speechless thing was a large ball of waste paper on the ground.

"Young Master, you, you are..." When Wang Blacksmith walked over quietly, she found that there were several stacks of food next to Qin Shou and had not moved the chopsticks. When she couldn't help but remind Qin Shou, she didn't know that Qin Shou suddenly raised her head, which scared Wang Blacksmith and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Qin Shou suddenly jumped up in shock, and suddenly laughed proudly and said, "Thinking of it! Hahaha... So that's it, his grandma, it turns out that it's so simple, which makes me waste so much brains thinking hard... Wang Blacksmith, what's wrong with you?"

Wang's ghostly expression made Qin Shou wonder. He finally thought of the principle of solving the transmission power. He didn't know that Wang's ghostly expression would destroy his happy mood. After seeing Wang's weird gaze and following his eyes, Qin Shou immediately threw down the modified drawings.

"Do as the design above!" Qin Shou left a sentence and immediately put on his black leather boots and flashed. Qin Shou didn't know how long he had been here. I guess there must be a lot of things outside. Qin Shou hurriedly left and left behind the inconsistency of Wang Blacksmith.

"That's fine?" Wang Blacksmith picked up the drawings that Qin Shou left behind, looked at the structural diagram of the power system modified by Qin Shou, and suddenly became speechless. This is too simple, right? It actually uses leverage to link the other three sets of driving wheels, and the main power drive only uses one set to drive the other three sets, and uses the clock rotation model to transmit power.
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