After three days, the bamboos that had been boiled in water had dried naturally, while the bamboos that had been soaked in oil seemed to need to be soaked for a while longer.
Lin Shuhang decided to experiment with boiled bamboo first.
The hardness of the boiled bamboo has increased a lot, but the bamboo tube still cannot withstand the huge gas pressure of the exploding date core.
The test failed again, which made Lin Shuhang very depressed.
"It seems I can only use oil-soaked bamboo. I hope it brings me good luck!"
After waiting patiently for a few days, he calculated that the bamboos had been soaked in palm oil for seven or eight days, which was enough. Lin Shuhang decided to try it again.
Take out a soaked bamboo from the pot and use the leaves to wipe off the oil on the outside. It can be seen from the cross section that after seven or eight days of soaking, the palm oil has completely soaked into the inside of the bamboo.
It seems that the wait these days is correct, but whether this kind of oil-soaked bamboo can withstand the powerful high-pressure gas of exploding dates remains to be further verified.
Like the previous times, this time the mad general was still in charge of the barrel of the gun and he was responsible for loading the ammunition.
After putting the protective rattan basket on the head, a new round of live ammunition testing began!
"I hope you won't disappoint me this time!" Lin Shuhang took a deep breath and filled the jujube core of an exploding jujube into the specially treated bamboo tube from the bottom of the bamboo tube.
Scoop out a little acidic water from the earthen pot and carefully pour it on the outer shell of the date core. After waiting for about four or five seconds, there is a loud "bang" sound, and the date core explodes after being eroded by the acidic water through the outer shell!
The powerful high-pressure gas instantly filled the inside of the bamboo tube. Driven by the gas, the jujube core of the exploded date rushed out of the bamboo tube at a very high speed and shot into a big tree with a "boom" sound, causing explosive debris to fly.
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When the smoke cleared, a giant crater with a diameter of two meters was left on the hard old tree.
Look at the bamboo tube again. Although it has been specially treated, it still cannot withstand the strong impact of high-pressure gas.
The expanding gas still damaged the bamboo tube, but compared to the boiled bamboo, the damage to the oil-soaked bamboo was not very serious. It was just that the wall of the bamboo tube was cracked by the rapidly expanding high-pressure gas.
Although the results of the test were unsatisfactory, Lin Shuhang was still quite excited, because compared to the previous test firings, the results this time had been greatly improved, at least there were no explosion accidents, which gave Lin Shuhang hope of success.
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"It seems that bamboo soaked in oil is still useful! If you modify it again, it will definitely be able to withstand the high-pressure gas of the date pit!"
Looking at the cracks on the bamboo tube, Lin Shuhang was very confident and thought that he was very close to success. In fact, this was exactly the case.
I have to say that Lin Shuhang still has some sense. He has already seen the problem. Aren't you not strong enough? Then I will add some materials to you and forcefully change your hardness!
"Crazy General, you wait here, I'll go out to find some materials." Lin Shuhang said confidently: "I can turn the bamboo into a real gun barrel soon!"
Lin Shuhang left the small courtyard alone, and came back after a while. When he came back, he had a few vines in his hands.
The next step is to modify the bamboo tube.
In order to increase the hardness of the bamboo tube so that it can withstand the high-pressure gas when the date core explodes, Lin Shuhang made some special improvements to the bamboo tube.
The improvement method is very simple - insert a bamboo with a smaller diameter into a bamboo with a larger diameter, so that the bamboo tube forms a double-layer tube wall, and then a layer of vines is tightly wrapped around the outside of the tube wall.
, just like that, a double-layer bamboo pipe with strength blessing is ready.
"I can guarantee that there will be no problem this time!" This time, Lin Shuhang was very confident. After all, the thickness of this bamboo tube had doubled. If nothing else, the hardness and endurance should be at least twice as high.
After modifying the bamboo tube, Lin Shuhang worked non-stop and soon started a new round of test firing.
Skillfully fill the jujube core into the bamboo tube, pour some acidic water on it, wait four or five seconds, there will be a loud "bang" sound, and the jujube core will burst!
When the jujube core exploded, the huge force shocked the mad general and he almost dropped the bamboo tube.
Like a jujube core armor-piercing projectile with powerful kinetic energy, it directly penetrated a big tree and penetrated into the soil, causing the soil to scatter in all directions.
Not only Lin Shuhang and Crazy General, the eyes of the audience outside the venue were also drawn by the live broadcast camera, and they all looked at the bamboo tube in Crazy General's hand.
The live broadcast room was completely silent. After more than ten seconds of silence, it suddenly exploded.
"Look, there is no explosion in the chamber, the bamboo tube is intact!" Someone took the lead and said: "The test was successful! The bamboo tube did not explode in the chamber, the test was successful!"
The live broadcast room suddenly burst into warm applause, and everyone was cheering for Lin Shuhang.
"This result is really exciting!"
"Yeah, it's so surprising!"
"The anchor is awesome 666!"
"Don't be happy too early. One success means nothing!" Lin Shuhang said solemnly: "I don't want the barrel of the gun to explode suddenly during use in the future. I have to test fire it several times to thoroughly understand its performance before I can make people feel at ease.
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Compared to others, Lin Shuhang is relatively calm. As he said, a successful test fire does not mean anything. He is not sure whether this double-layer bamboo tube can withstand multiple violent shots. If it is shot two or three times,
If it suddenly explodes, it would be a very dangerous thing.
Therefore, a qualified weapon must go through long-term testing and demonstration before the user can rest assured.
No one wants their weapon to fall off the chain at a critical moment. Lin Shuhang decided to increase the shooting intensity of the bamboo tube to test under what circumstances will this bamboo tube be scrapped?
In order to test the performance of the weapon, Lin Shuhang increased the shooting intensity of the bamboo tube.
In the next few days, on average, dozens of exploding dates would be fired every hour, sometimes increasing to hundreds of date cores in an hour.
This kind of shooting frequency and intensity was a pain for the Crazy General. He could withstand eight out of ten rounds. However, the firing volume of dozens or hundreds of rounds was obviously too much for the Crazy General. After a few days, the Crazy General was tortured by bamboo tubes.
Zhen's arm was almost broken.
The test was conducted from morning to afternoon.
After doing the math, Lin Shuhang tested more than 800 exploding dates in total. Apart from being a little burnt, the bamboo tube still looked intact, which gave him the confidence to complete today's test intensity.
As time goes by, the sun gradually sets.
Lin Shuhang planned to increase the intensity of shooting and strive to reach a shooting volume of 1,000 exploding dates before dark to see if the bamboo tube could sustain this frequency and intensity of shooting.
After all, a bamboo pipe is a bamboo pipe, not an iron pipe, nor a steel pipe. Then again, even iron pipes and steel pipes have fatigue, and high-frequency shooting can easily damage the pipe body, not to mention the bamboo pipe?
Sure enough, after only shooting more than 900 exploding dates, serious problems appeared in the bamboo tube.
After several days of high-intensity shooting, the vines on the outer wall of the bamboo tube had a fatigue effect. The vines could no longer withstand the expansion of high-pressure gas and the impact of exhaust gas, and they broke with a "pop" sound.
After the tree vine collapsed, Lin Shuhang discovered that the problems inside the bamboo tube were more serious than the surface.
After nearly a thousand times of high-intensity shooting, the bottom layer of bamboo tubes had been burnt black by date stones and could no longer be used.
In other words, the life of this gun barrel has come to an end, it has been completely scrapped and can no longer be used.
"960 rounds... 960 rounds of shooting life..." Lin Shuhang murmured: "Succeeded, I succeeded!"
There is no doubt that this test was quite successful. The shooting life of 960 rounds of jujube cores has far exceeded Lin Shuhang's psychological expectations.
The efforts of more than ten days were not in vain, Lin Shuhang was so excited that he danced and jumped like a child.
For the Titans, this is a great change!
Once upon a time, the Titans' weapons only had fists and sticks. History is moving forward, and the era of hand-to-hand combat has passed. Now, only smart minds can rule the Titan continent!
I don’t want to be the lord of the wilderness, I want this world to change!
"Congratulations, congratulations to the host for successfully developing a powerful weapon. You will definitely be the king of this era! We look forward to the day when you rise, come on!"
"Anchor, would you like to give your weapon a name?"
"Yeah, it's hard to invent a new firearm. Give your weapon a name?"
Lin Shuhang thought for a while: "When this gun is fired, it sounds like thunder and is so powerful that it can penetrate trees and break rocks. Let's call it a giant's gun!"
"Giant's Gun, Giant's Gun..." the audience murmured, remembering the name of this weapon.