Comprehensive martial arts: The beginning is to make peacock ling

Chapter 59: The Steam Engine.

Chapter 59 The Steam Engine

“Thank you, Young Master.”

Yue Feng couldn’t wait to open the [Casting Book], and he was still amazed while looking at it: “I didn’t think that the temperature could be controlled like this, why didn’t I think of it?” Gee, the fusion of Star Trace Gold and Nine Yin Xuan Tie can produce such a change, it’s amazing…”

Qiu Fengtong, who listened, was upset, and quickly interrupted: “Okay, I have to look back and see, also, the casting book is for you, but don’t indulge in it, the casting of the ice sword is the most important, if there is an accident…”

Yue Feng immediately said, “If there is an accident, I will raise my head to see you.” ”

Qiu Fengtong said angrily: “What do I want your head for?” ”

“Hahaha…”

The four burst out laughing.

Sending the three to leave, Qiu Fengtong also came to the watch workshop.

Of course, the current watch workshop has not yet started, and Qiu Ling is taking several young apprentices to train, and is demonstrating on the spot to disassemble and assemble the watch and understand the parts inside.

“Young Master, you are here.”

Lao Yuan Qiu Ling saw Qiu Fengtong and hurriedly said hello.

“Hmm.”

Qiu Fengtong was also not polite, and asked directly: “Brother Ling, did I let you do East 807 West well?” ”

“It’s all done.”

Qiu Ling pulled through several boxes, and when they opened them, they were full of large and small parts.

However, Qiu Ling obviously did not understand the use of this thing, and asked: “Young master, I don’t understand, what is the use of this pile of parts?” It’s not like a watch production line. ”

Qiu Fengtong said: “You will know later, I will assemble it first, and you will help.” ”

“Yes.”

The apprentices were sent to fiddle with the clocks themselves, and Qiu Ling began to help Qiu Fengtong assemble the machine.

The machine is not large, the lowest is only the height of the table, and the height is only a little taller than one person, but the length is very long, and it is tens of meters long.

This is because there are a lot of machines, there are nine of them, except for the first and highest one is an incomprehensible sealed boiler, the other machines are similar in appearance, and they don’t understand what Qiu Fengtong is doing.

For the next two days, Qiu Fengtong stayed here, and with the help of Qiu Ling and others, he finally succeeded in assembling the machine – mainly because the accuracy of many parts was not up to standard, and Qiu Fengtong took too much time to adjust the parts.

“Bring the materials.”

Looking at the machine in front of him, Qiu Fengtong was a little excited, if it can really be done, then he can be said to have created a new era.

“Yes.”

Qiu Ling took the material, that is, a plate of copper wire the thickness of chopsticks, which was prepared in advance.

“Buzz!”

Came to the first boiler, ignited the coal below, after ten minutes, as the temperature increased, the boiler method made a humming sound, and then I saw the winch on the boiler slowly turning, driving the other machines to run.

At this time, Qiu Fengtong picked up the copper wire and put it in the inlet, and then saw the copper wire exposed from the other end, but it was obviously already a smaller circle, after passing the sink, and then the copper wire was sent into the second machine inlet, and then it was smaller when it came out, and then the third, the fourth… Until the copper wire came out of the last machine, it had become a copper wire only the thickness of a human hair.

That’s right, the machine made by Qiu Fengtong is the wire drawing machine.

This is a typical set of tank wire drawing machine, each wire drawing machine has five sets of rollers, eight sets is forty sets of rollers, each set of rollers caliber is a little smaller than the previous set, so through step by step pulling, the original chopsticks thick copper wire becomes thinner and thinner, and finally reaches only one centimeter [about 0.33 mm] thickness of copper wire.

The first boiler-like machine is actually the power source of the whole set of equipment – the steam engine, so this is actually a steam wire drawing machine.

Seeing that there are people here, they will ask, how to build a steam engine without a rubber seal?

In fact, everyone underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, the first steam engine did not have rubber, and Watt did not use rubber when he improved the steam engine – the steam engine appeared in the eighteenth century, and the use of rubber dates back to the nineteenth century.

Rubber is not a necessity for steam engines, and even now many steam equipment, sealing will not use rubber, in fact, in addition to rubber, there are many sealing technologies in mechanics, Qiu Fengtong uses piston sealing, which is not a problem at all.

“I actually moved myself.”

This self-running steam engine immediately attracted everyone’s onlookers, they have never seen such a magical machine one by one, of course, this is not to say that there are no automatic machines in this era, not to mention the public losers and Mojia such specialized institutions, just say that the water wheel on the edge of the farmland can also be regarded as an automatic machine.

But these machines are either low in power and single in function, or they are expensive to vomit blood and are simply not suitable for popularization. And what is the production cost of Qiu Fengtong’s set of machinery?

This matter was personally handled by Qiu Ling, so he knew the cost of this set of machinery well, the most precise is the steam engine, the cost will not exceed eight hundred taels, even if you add the eight wire drawing machines behind, a complete set of equipment, the total cost does not exceed two thousand taels of silver.

Although this is still a huge amount of money for many people, for many forces, it is already a low and outrageously low price, and there are simply not too many people who can come up with this money.

After all the excitement, Qiu Ling asked himself the last question: “But I still don’t understand, young master, you spend so much effort just to make copper wire?” Are we going to sell copper wire? It’s not profitable either, is it? ”

“Who said you were going to sell copper wire?”

Qiu Fengtong rolled her eyes, selling copper wire can make a few bucks: “Can’t we sell gold wire…” Ah, it’s crooked for you, anyway, I have a big use, you just have to watch. ”

Of course, selling gold wire is not impossible, you must know that many jewelry need gold wire decoration, and the ancient method of manufacturing gold wire is only a method of drawing wire plate, which is extremely inefficient and has greater loss, which is completely worth the loss.

If their own high-output, low-cost gold wire enters the market, it will inevitably have a violent impact on the entire market, and I don’t know how many craftsmen will lose their jobs… That scene is simply unthinkable, it’s too miserable, Mr. Qiu has a good heart, but he can’t rob other people’s jobs [Author: Are you sure you can’t see this business?] Qiu Fengtong: Believe it or not, I pulled you into silk? 】。。