socalfunplaces Chapter 175
Chapter 175
At this time, Lu Zhe began to prepare other materials for iron smelting.
Naturally, the more charcoal is fired, the better, and this work is left to Ning Shu and shallow.
Yaoyao and Guo'er are responsible for three meals.
Lu Zhe and Shen Bing continued to advance the ironmaking process.
In the ironmaking process, some other tools are needed!
Hammers, steel tongs, bellows, shaping sand, and more!
There is no river sand on the seaside, so the sea sand can only be replaced by light cleaning and drying!
A hammer is also easy to do, make a stone hammer out of rocks and wooden handles.
You also need a ready-made pair of steel tongs to hold red-hot pieces of iron.
But the iron has not yet been smelted, where to find steel tongs?
Lu Zhe and Shen Bing pondered for a long time and decided to pout the handlebars of the bicycle into two.
Bend the fracture with a stone, and then use a stone to smash 8 cm from the fracture.
Pierce a nail and bend, and a simple pliers that clangs rotten is ready.
Lu Zhe tried it, it was too unscrupulous, but it was good to give a potential point in the category of being usable!
Let's get it first!
The most critical thing is the bellows.
This is also the hardest.
Lu Zhe finally decided to use a bicycle!
His current hand strength is comparable to that of Mr. Kato, and it is not a problem to twist a screw.
The frame of the straight car is directly buckled, re-screwed the rear wheel, chain disc, pedals, and then the chain is connected and installed!
Chains that have been soaked in acid and lubricated with animal oil are useful.
Use the pedals as a crank, shake them, and the rear wheel really spins quickly.
Then cut the dried sunflower leaves into wind blades, carefully tie the spokes of the wheels, and then turn them up to bring a whistling wind.
Finally, the wind was gathered together with a thick bamboo clay shape, leading to the kiln 30 cm away, and the hand-cranked bellows was also ready, and there was a potential point.
Seemingly simple business, busy all day.
July 26, 47 days on a desert island.
It rained for another day, but at noon on this day, the first batch of pottery bricks and a small amount of pottery had been successfully fired, and the two bricks touched lightly, making a crisp and pleasant "dangdang" sound.
It was successful.
Lu Zhe took out a pot-sized clay pot and mixed the sun-dried sand and clay into it.
Silica, kaolin, and sea sand have a much higher melting point than iron and can be used to shape axes.
Then, Lu Zhe began to build an iron kiln, and the earthen kiln made of bricks was hotter than directly made of mud and bamboo, and could smelt higher quality iron!
"Let's get started!"
"Iron sintering is required before it can be made. The purpose is to melt and condense the iron in the ore to form iron blocks!
In addition, carbon and ferric oxide can be reduced to iron and carbon monoxide at high temperatures, and the resulting carbon monoxide can also reduce ferric oxide and ferric oxide to iron!
In the process, I will constantly oxygenate the stove, and you will add charcoal and tree oil to it. to continuously increase the temperature in the furnace.
Shen Bing nodded: "Understood." "
Hmm."
Lu Zhe put a large amount of charcoal and ore into the furnace.
Then ignite.
After the charcoal in the furnace was burned, the lid was closed, and Lu Zhe began to shake the bicycle fan, and a large amount of air was poured into the furnace, and the glare of the charcoal in the furnace was seen from the gap.
After two hours of continuous oxygenation, the temperature continued to rise, and on the evening of July 26, the first step was finally completed.
Dismantling the stove, sure enough, some metal lumps were found in a pile of slag.
Roughly estimated to be around ten pounds.
Lu Zhe was overjoyed in his heart, it seems that this step is very successful!
On July 27th, start the second step!
Remake the kiln, put the pieces of iron in a clay pot, add a lot of charcoal for calcination.
Another blow for quite a long time!
When you clamp out a large piece of iron with the handlebars, it has turned red!
Put rocks and hammer them to shape them!
After countless beatings, the shape of an axe gradually appeared. After another hour, an ugly axe head was ready, watered and quenched.
Despite the surface potholes, it is ugly like a piece of scrap.
Although you don't say, it's completely impossible to see that this is an axe.
But it is strong and sturdy, and it is by no means comparable to stone tools.
Shen Bing slammed: "My God, this thing weighs more than ten pounds!"
Lu Zhe nodded: "It's okay, I have a lot of strength!" "
Finally, find a strong wooden rod, dig a hole, stuff the iron axe into the wooden rod, nail it with a wedge and reinforce it, and you're done!"
Just such an axe, Lu Zhe used three whole days, and there was only one potential point.
But from a practical point of view, it's worth it.
With it, Lu Zhe's logging efficiency has increased several times!
With plenty of wood, it's easy to build.
In one afternoon, Lu Zhe extended the fence, expanded the shelter to 100 square meters, covered almost the entire banyan tree, and built a cowshed and firewood house near the camp.
In the past few days, in addition to helping, several girls also picked up a large amount of household garbage on the beach in Crescent Bay.
Needless to say, shabby clothes bottles plastic bags can often be encountered.
There are also discarded buoys, worn-out umbrellas, glass bottles, floating tires for fishing boats to prevent collisions, nylon ropes, plastic boxes for fruit, fishing nets, and even hooks.
These things were carefully washed and placed in the camp by a few girls so that they could be used at any time.
They also used plastic boards to make a "swing" not far from the camp, which is naturally not necessary to say.
The next step is to clear the land and farm!
"In order to improve efficiency, the two groups worked separately, and I and a companion went to the bottom of the volcano to clear the land, while the other four stayed in the camp, weaving protective nets. Remember to keep the mesh dense, otherwise birds may still get in and steal our harvest.
Tang Xiaoguo volunteered: "Then I'll accompany Brother Zhe this time!"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Declare in advance!" I need to do a lot of work, so with me you have to help me make a fire and cook..."
"No need! Also massage me when I am tired, not to anger me, to ensure that I always have a happy mood and a good working condition.
"It's all a small thing, I can still sing to you when I'm bored, you work while I sing to you that our workers have strength, and the more you work, the more energetic you are!"
"I thank you!"
Seeing that Guo'er volunteered so much, Lu Zhe didn't want to discourage her enthusiasm: "You don't have to sing, just be quiet!"
Jiang Yao instructed: "Be obedient along the way, and don't see anything!"
"It won't!" Tang Xiaoguo said helplessly.
A sense of déjà vu of being led out to play by your father and being told by your mother.
"Because the mountain road is not easy to walk, maybe we will stay at the bottom of the volcano for two or three days, don't worry."
Shen Bing nodded: "I won't let them erect a monument if they are fine."
Ning Shu sighed: "How do I feel more worried about Guo'er than worrying about danger?"
Jiang Yao nodded: "Same feeling!" On
July 28, Lu Zhe took fruit and some necessary tools and food, entered the jungle again, and went straight to the bottom of the volcano.