On the 29th, Kuryagan, Jonny and others finally produced a set of handmade steam cylinders, as well as matching pistons, reversing brakes, connecting rods, flywheels, etc.
After hearing the good news, Lant ran to the magic workshop. Even though the steam boiler was still being made, Lant still wanted to test the completion of the cylinder first.
In order for the cylinder to operate, gas must be delivered smoothly into the cylinder. However, there was no wind mage or air supply device in the camp, so Hu Lant simply brought in the fire.
The experiment setup was very rough and simple. The fire was tied up in the yard. The experiment required her to release an air flow close to a cyclone and send it directly into the steam inlet with a diameter of about 20 cm on the cylinder 15 meters away. If the air reaches the piston, it can turn the flywheel. This means that the cylinder is basically successful.
Asking a Warcraft to conduct such a precise experiment, it can be said that the Orcs were silent after listening to it, and the Tower of Purity shed tears after hearing it. Lant himself said that it was not reliable.
"Fire, not the wind blade, don't break this cylinder." In the workshop, Lant was riding a horse, trying to use his fighting spirit to guide the wind magic power of Lie Fire. Once he felt that the force of the wind blade inspired by the fire was too strong, Lant had to use his own fighting spirit to guide it away from the cylinder.
"Dang~dang" Several wind blades hit the wall built by the earth elf, causing a huge vibration.
"It's really useful to trim the burrs. I'll make sure you smooth them before painting the wall next time." Looking at the wind blades inspired by the fire, Lant felt like he was controlling the bucket of an excavator to lift a bottle and fill a cup with water.
"Sir," Kai ran over, "Can you let me communicate with her?"
I saw the centaur girl walking up to Liehuo, with her hands in a praying position, her eyes drooping, and silently reciting prayers. The warcraft horse, which was a little restless just now, understood and put its huge horse head to the girl's forehead.
"This is..." Jonny and others looked at it in shock, but they were thinking in their hearts, they all have four hooves, can they really have a common language?
About 10 minutes later, the fire really inspired a relatively weak wind blade. After it was 5 meters away, the wind weakened. Then the second wind blade hit. After the two winds intersected, a strange airflow was formed. After a few seconds, the wind weakened. Seconds later, the air accurately entered the steam inlet. The magic of the wind drove the air into the cylinder and pushed the piston. The piston drove the connecting rod to turn the flywheel. The connecting rod and the slide valve drove the reversing valve in the cylinder, allowing the air to drive the piston. Make a reciprocating motion.
"Boom boom boom" The magic of the fire only lasted for tens of seconds, and the flywheel only turned a few times, but these few turns proved that the results of the labor of Kuryagan, Sophia and others could be run.
"Sir?" Sophia looked at the rotating wheel, "If you only need this wheel to rotate, then why don't you use the wind to directly push the windmill?" Then she drew on a piece of paper, "You can draw some on the blades. Mr. Gandalf has taught me the wind runes, which can increase the flow speed of the wind."
"There is something wrong with your windmill. If the middle shaft is not strong enough, it will soon become useless." Lant looked at the girl and took a carbon pen. "You can also remove the shaft and make a shaftless fan." Lant said while painting, "You can also make this kind of spiral fan, so that the contact area between the wind and the fan is larger."
"Sir, these?" Sophia, Yinghuo, Jonny and even Kay came over and looked at the drawings drawn by Lant.
"You can try all of these. My idea is very simple. What I need is power. It can be a boiler to boil water, convert coal into power, or magic to convert it into power." For Rand, coal mines are a ready resource. If you don't use it, you won't use it. But it would also be great if Sophia was inspired to develop magic that could be converted into power, or make power more efficient.
"Let's give it a try, but I'm afraid there are still many parts that you need to buy separately." Jonny looked embarrassed.
"It's okay. You tell me this afternoon what else you need to buy, and I'll ask Dugan to buy it."
In the afternoon, Lant spoke to Dugan. Dugan reported that there were some factories in the imperial capital that had similar needs to Lant, and he had asked Master John to go to the imperial capital to purchase them.
"John asked you if you want to buy small and medium-sized connecting rods and cranks." Dugan was not very familiar with the vocabulary of industry, but Lant understood. "John said that some factories in the imperial capital have such things. If you don't mind scrapping the parts, If so, it should be pretty cheap.”
Immediately afterwards, Dugan specially took a note written by John to him, explaining that the so-called scrapped parts were because the magic runes on the parts were scrapped, not because there was a problem with the structure of the workpiece. Once the runes fail and the magical properties disappear, the price of the artifact drops by an order of magnitude.
"If you can, help me buy some bearings and fans." In line with the principle of using existing human industrial achievements as much as possible, Lant put forward all his needs and specially drew a sample diagram for Dugan to draw. "Did John say what equipment in the factory these parts were used on?"
"He seemed to have mentioned something about rune stamping."
Lant had a new understanding of the empire's industry, and entrusted Master John to purchase as many scrap parts as possible.
In the evening, Lant specifically contacted Ben Call and wanted to know which equipment in the imperial capital would use transmission structures.
"Functionally speaking, your equipment is not uncommon. It is used in many places. You should have done magic lifting and lowering in Dragon Tooth City. That equipment used a similar device." Ben Kaur kept recalling.
"Yes, but there is no magic furnace in my castle, and there are no ley lines under the castle. I want to use coal as energy."
"It's not impossible. As far as I know, some arsenals in the Imperial City have manufactured some machines for stamping and engraving runes in recent years. I guess some of them are similar to what you need."
"In addition, the Imperial Salt and Iron Company has very similar equipment, but instead of connecting rods in the transmission box, they have metal with repulsion effect runes painted on it. However, the Iron Company will probably not sell you such a transmission box. "
"Tell me what I can buy." Lant doesn't think that the equipment of the Salt and Iron Company can be bought on the fly.
"There used to be a relatively primitive one that has been out of use for hundreds of years, but...Wendy, why don't you take people to search in those caves tomorrow? There might be some more," Ben ordered to his side. girl. "
Of course, Lant couldn't just wait for news from the royal capital. He asked Kuryagan to manufacture 4 or 5 sets in small batches according to the connecting rod and cylinder plans that he had already explored.
After another three days, Kuryagan finally made an iron lid for the medium-sized salt boiling pot. The lid has a water injection port and a steam outlet. After Kay draws the runes, it can form a steam boiler with the salt boiling pot. , after being assembled with a set of cylinders, the output power can drive a water truck to lift water to a height of 2-3 floors.
The heating part of the steam furnace is assisted by flame fairies to heat the rune plate. If coal is simply burned, the heating efficiency will be significantly reduced.
Lant had seen a boiler room in his previous life. After the initial completion of the boiler, he began to design a preheating device to use the heat of the exhaust steam to preheat the water that was to enter the boiler.
(End of chapter)
