Blushing, Smith jumped up, his strands of hair standing on end, looking like an angry hedgehog.
Bolu, who was sitting on the wooden board, did not get up, but just raised his head and glanced at him: "Why such a big reaction? Besides, who wants to dismantle your steam hammer?"
"I only have four steam hammers left! Um? Don't you want to dismantle my steam hammer? Didn't you just say to install a steam hammer? I saw that the tractor was ready to be dismantled and modified, and I thought I was going to dismantle my steam hammer and support it.
"
He was embarrassed and scratched his head hard, but the hand in his hair seemed to be attracted by a magnet, and he started scratching it. Looking at his happy expression, Bolu, who had not taken a bath for a long time, felt
My scalp also became itchy.
As if he had regained his composure, he asked again: "You really don't want to dismantle my steam hammer?"
Polu waved his hand impatiently: "Don't dismantle it, don't dismantle it! The cylinder of the steam hammer is not suitable. Make it now! Don't think too much, sit down and take a look together!"
By the time Smith jumped up, Goola had already immersed himself in estimating the approximate amount of materials.
He raised his head and answered confidently: "Yes, we can make all the dimensions here. Fortunately, the beam is a hollow beam with two cast iron plates locked together and a support column sandwiched in the middle. Otherwise, in this furnace, a bag of molten iron may
It’s not enough water.”
As he spoke, his hands slipped into his lower back. Seeing the two people next to him scratching and scratching, Bolu couldn't help it anymore and joined them. The few of them were talking and rubbing up and down.
If you look at it from a distance, it looks like a monkey squatting together.
Bolu let out a pleasant groan from his nose, and took out his hand from his back: "It's so cool. It's so uncomfortable to wear this linen clothes so sticky after being worn for a long time. Speaking of which, should we first remove it?"
The bathhouse should be repaired first? I work hard every day without taking a shower, and I feel stinky. Geola, I am making wooden molds now, can I have time to turn the sand today?"
"It's almost doable. I'm going to prepare the molding sand if I'm sure I can make the wooden mold today. There's a whole section of big wood over there. There's nothing I can do about it. It's an island after all. It's very damp, and even the sand isn't dry enough.
, and finally I have to dry it. I also want to take a shower, but it’s too cold here and I can’t stand it without hot water.”
"Okay, go ahead and prepare the crucible that you brought here. It's best to use tougher steel. We'll do this first. When the mining problem is solved, we'll add the boiler and then we'll solve the problem.
Bathing problem!"
"Then don't worry, the quality of the molten iron here is very good even if it's not as good as our steel-making plates!"
"It's just that the ore is too hard, so it's not easy to dig."
Several people laughed together.
Geora waved his hand: "I'm going to sift the sand, and you can work on the wooden molds first. If this continues, we will almost run out of sand for casting. We have to build the cargo ship quickly and find a new source."
"Then I'll go help Geora and calculate how much the whole system weighs."
"Smith, come and pick out a piece of wood for me."
The two of them spent a long time picking through the pile of wood that had just been sawed. They found that every section of wood was so good that they were reluctant to use it to make wooden molds.
"What a fine piece of pine wood! It's just sawn down. Smith is here to help me, just this section, it's the right length and thickness!"
Smith helped him put this large log, which was one meter long and nearly 40 centimeters in diameter, on a workbench. If both of them hadn't had some strength, this dense log would have been almost impossible to lift!
Polu looked at the big piece of wood and sketched in his mind how to cut it. Then he measured the size with a steel ruler on the workbench and marked the position on the section with a charcoal pen. Then he dropped the charcoal pen and took a picture.
I patted the piece of wood standing on the workbench.
"Okay, I'm sure, it's a very suitable wood."
As soon as he finished speaking, he pressed his hand on the top of the wood, and the radiance of magic flashed past. Without a sound, the moist outer skin of the log was cut off with a sharp stroke, turning it into an eight-sided prism.
“It was cut so neatly.”
Polu looked at the smooth surface he had cut out with a knife and sighed a little. After this year of hard training, his processing skills have grown visibly. Although the accuracy is not particularly high, he is just making a wooden mold.
This normal work has become as natural as breathing.
After peeling off the outer skin, he did not put it down, but placed both hands on the log - now an octagonal wood, which directly activated the shaping spell.
A bright spot flickered on the small charcoal dot drawn in the center of the wood. This was his starting hand to mark the center of the wood. After finding the center, he controlled the bright spot to divide into two and draw in the opposite direction.
Go, leaving a straight line through the center like a straight line drawn with a ruler on the wood!
"The control is really good. This digging is really not in vain."
He sighed a little.
After looking for the feel, I took a deep breath, held my breath, increased the output, and finally started the formal production. The brightness of the two symmetrical highlights suddenly increased, and a unique resin aroma when processing pine wood appeared.
It was floating in the air, but there was no other common phenomenon - there was no sign of smoke from the wood.
This is the benefit of Magic Shaping - although it looks like laser cutting, the wood will not be burned black during processing!
The bright spot was still rotating slowly, going around in a circle, and finally formed a perfect circle. He controlled the bright spot to expand outward again. Finally, two bright lines floating in the air were cut out of the wood core! It turned out that he controlled the bright spot to expand outward again.
It's a cutting line formed by two magical powers, but the exposed part looks like a bright spot!
After the processing was completed, Bolu withdrew the spell and gently knocked on the top of the wood.
"Click!"
Placed on the workbench, the seemingly intact wood made a soft sound, and the severed ribbed outer layer fell outwards like split bamboo, revealing the smooth inner core!
Polu stretched out his hand and touched it. There were no burrs and almost no need for polishing. It was smooth and standard, but had a slightly sticky feeling of rosin. He recalled the shock when he saw the teacher processing wood for the first time. He didn't expect that he could do it now.
It’s in shape!
“You’re doing pretty well and you’ve made a lot of progress this year!”
A feeling called self-confidence suddenly hit his heart, and a subtle sense of satisfaction emerged, even making him feel like he was expanding!
Smith, who had been watching the whole process, finally managed to endure it until now. He let out a sigh of admiration:
"Little manager, you are practicing well now. Why can't I learn it? This skill is really convenient."
"Don't worry, sooner or later, you too will be able to use this technology!"
"It's impossible for me. I've wanted to learn it since I was a child. I've taken the test so many times, but it's the same every time. There's no magic induction at all. There's really no way."
Smith smiled wryly and waved his hand.
"No, sooner or later I will make something that has similar effects without the need for magic induction."
Polu's men kept working and started boring out the structure of the cylinder in the wood core. At the same time, he still had enough energy to turn his head to answer Smith's question.
"Seriously, I've made so many things, and every product can be used by anyone. Don't you believe me? Whether you have a talent for sensing is not the point in my thinking at all! It's for geniuses.
There are enough things, I just want to make it more convenient for everyone. After all, no matter how powerful the geniuses are, such a big world cannot take care of them, so we have to take care of ourselves."
His eyes were full of seriousness.
"At least you have to be able to hold on until others have a chance to save you. If everyone has no ability to resist and just die suddenly, the masters will have no chance to save you, right?"
Speaking of this, Polu remembered that when he and Hendrick visited the factory in Red Mountain, Polu once asked him:
"Does Xingdao already know that there are strange creatures invading the mainland?"
"Of course I know, but aren't these things going towards Nazwa now? Let them fight!"
"Then Xingdao really doesn't care?"
As a result, the legendary mage who seemed to have unlimited glory and could do whatever he wanted showed a helpless and tired expression.
"It's not that I don't want to take care of it, it's that I really can't take care of it. I went there once after Suvorov came to report in the first half of the year. As a result, I blew up things on the ground and made pits. Within two days, these things grew out again.
It’s really a bug, life is really hard! I suspect that we have to dig up the ground. But there is really no time. The black hole shield is attacked 1.3 times a day on average, and we really can’t leave for too long. In case the shield is collapsed
It’s broken, there’s also a bloody battle here!”
He paused and then said: "Are you sure you can get rid of cockroaches in your home? Even if I burn down the house and smash it to the ground, these things may still be there, and they will still emerge from every hiding corner in a few days.
.Besides, there are robbers with knives at the door, prying open the door and looking in! We are exhausted if we can block the door! We can only rely on you to clean up these little bugs in the house. Now it is a two-front battle. Which side?
No one can lose. If you lose, everyone will be finished together. So you have to work hard!"
"Before, several of our cities in Esodu were robbed by Nazwa, and I couldn't even take revenge! I had to provide them with resources! I was so angry! Forget it, I don't know why the bugs like to beat them, but...
Let them stand in front and fight with the insects!"
The memory was interrupted by a shout: "Polu, Polu! Are you okay?"
"Ah, it's okay. I thought of something else."
"Smith, can you process this in the future?"
"Isn't this cast iron? Which part do we machine?"
"Yes, cast iron. This part probably requires boring the cylinder. In the future, if conditions permit, we will still have to change to forged steel. A thermally expanded cylinder will also work. I think cast iron is almost boring, since the size is not very big anyway."
Bolu put down the last part that needed to be cast: "Okay, the main structure is completed! Come and help me! You grab the stick at the other end, yes, that's it. Come on, poke it back and forth a few times.
!”
As he spoke, he installed several major components of the cylinder.
Smith picked up the wooden stake that was as thick as his thigh and had a prismatic tip. He pushed and pulled it while expressing his thoughts: "It's quite tight. Will it grind the cylinder? What is this strange part for?"
"This is similar to your steam hammer. The steam hammer lifts and lowers on a steel pier. This is a steel drill, which is specially used to break hard ores."
"Isn't that true?"
"It's still necessary. We don't even have a few serious miners now. Mining depends entirely on the Knights. This is not a long-term solution. With this, even if the Knights suddenly get tired of mining and stop mining, we can still maintain a stable supply of ore.
supply."
"The cylinder is still a little tight. I don't know if it's because of the wood or because there are too few gaps."
"Leave too much and it will leak! If that doesn't work, just use a copper piston. There really isn't that much oil on the island for lubrication, so I'll try adding a little first. Speaking of which, we are on the island too. Do we want to go fishing?
Please use some oil?"
"Isn't it too extravagant? If we catch fish, there won't be enough food for people to eat, so will it be used by machines?"
"Hey, some fish oil is poisonous and will spurt out of the anus after eating it. It's embarrassing, but it's very suitable for use as lubricant, and it can only be used for machines."
"So scary? What kind of fish is this?"
"I don't know it either. From what I read in the book, I know there is such a thing."
Bolu watched the wooden mechanism change from rough friction to smoothness after adding oil, and nodded: "It's running normally, and the accuracy is about the same. I feel like it can be turned over."
I happened to see Geola coming back with two helpers, pushing a cart of charcoal: "Geola, come and take a look! Can this thing be cast?"
Geola came over to take a look and gave a close judgment: "The wall is thick enough and can be cast, but the cylinder needs to be well bored. It is similar to Smith's steam hammer, I am sure. But what about this big bolt?
"
He ordered several hollow connecting rods and extra-long screws to support the large cast iron plates.
"We use copper pistons. I use shaping magic to boring these experimental machines. I can just rub the screws by hand. It can be faster. We will study how to carry out ordinary production after the processing workshop is rebuilt."
"Then I have no problem."
"Okay, we all think it's not too difficult. Then I'll leave the casting of this cylinder to you. Remember to anneal it well. Smith, these pieces need to be forged. You go back and I will polish them after they are forged."
"Geola, these are yours. We will assemble them together when they are finished."
Bolu dismantled the parts and handed them to the two of them. After giving a detailed explanation, he suddenly discovered that Keith had not followed Geora. Not seeing Keith made Bolu a little anxious.
"By the way, where is the Case man? He is going to modify the tractor now? I haven't told him about the model yet?"
After all, a single cylinder is meaningless. Without a boiler, the cylinder is just a pile of scrap iron! And both of these must be installed on the chassis to meet Bolu's design needs!
"Well, he said the weight is a bit heavy and the original tractor chassis structure may not have a stable center of gravity and needs to be redesigned."
"What do you mean, he plans to make a new chassis? Wait, don't you mean to dismantle the tractor and test it first, how to make it ready? I'll go to his place and have a look!"