Lu Ming

Chapter 96

The flames were quickly burning in the hearth.Next is the rough work: several furnaces will keep sending the scraps piled up next to the furnace into the hearth.Leftovers that have not been fully dried make the boiler chimney billows of black smoke.

After a period of time, the boiler water boiled, and steam began to be output from the pipeline. The four kiln chief commanders held a booklet in their hands and began to direct the gas supply.

None of the dozen or so people in the Ministry of Industry has ever played a drying kiln, so they are all learning and selling.Fortunately, drying kilns in later generations are blooming everywhere, and when you buy a boiler, you will send the manufacturer's secret drying manual. The drying time, dry humidity, and kiln temperature of common wood can be found on the Internet. What is needed now is practice.

The finished product of a kiln usually takes about 16 hours to complete. Considering the shift problem, Zou Guoqing arranged for four members to master the drying kiln technology in the future.

These generals are not simple. Before crossing the border, their majors were such as: engineering automation, industrial robot maintenance, artificial intelligence control, and blockchain solutions to solve these high-level specialties, which are the most important things in the country.

Today, these high-end people are mobilized to be the kiln heads. It is also the leaders who feel that a good start is very important to improve morale.
Well, far away.Drying officially begins as steam passes through the pipes.

The kiln head masters the conditions in the kiln through observation holes, thermometers, and wet and dry bulb hygrometers. In addition, there are several sets of probes in different positions in the kiln to measure the moisture content of the wood at any time.

After the boiler steam enters, the kiln head starts to control the temperature and humidity changes in the kiln according to the booklet in hand. At present, these items are all controlled by voice, that is, by roar.To increase the humidity, it can be solved by spraying water, and to reduce the humidity, the humidity extraction window on the top of the kiln is opened, and there are prepared workers on the side who will shake the fan; and the kiln temperature is controlled by controlling the amount of fuel added to the boiler.

After more than ten hours in this way, turn off the furnace and turn off the fire, and then continue to exhaust the air. When the temperature of the wood is only 20 degrees higher than the outdoor, it can be shipped.

The first kiln wood that passed through the drying process was green bamboo cut from the nearby bamboo forest. According to the data, the green bamboo can be released from the kiln after 14 hours of drying.

The door of the kiln opened, and the four generals ignored the heat and went in to take a look, um, the two ends of the bamboo were a little cracked. Maybe they forgot to connect the bamboo joints?
Why are these goods on the upper bamboo stacks bowed?We don't make compound bows!Probably forgot to put some weight on it?

Is the moisture content of the bamboo in the middle and lower layers all messed up?Holding the grass, holding the grass, probably because the airflow circulation at the bottom of the kiln is not well grasped
The old comrades encountered new problems, and the four generals were only left to grasp the grass at this moment.

Looking at the pile of green dough sticks that were arched and warped, bursting at both ends, as if they had been fried, all the people who came to get the finished product covered their faces and left without looking back.

The four generals lost their face.

"Okay, let's all take it seriously, we can't play tickets anymore!" said Zuo Bin, one of the four who is engaged in industrial robot maintenance: "Analyze, analyze the problem first, I don't believe that a kiln-breaking technical difficulty can be more difficult than a robot!"

The technical difficulty of breaking a kiln is that there are not as many robots, but some difficulties can only be discovered after a problem occurs.Several people spent the next few days cultivating with great concentration, and finally spent another three days, working day and night, repeatedly sorting out the waste products of the four kilns, and finally got the qualified green bamboo.

It's not easy. The secret booklet in everyone's hands has long been thrown away: the manufacturer doesn't know anything about the green bamboo in Tainan in the 17th century.The original position of the fan has also been readjusted, and there seems to be a difference between human and electric drive.A pit was temporarily dug outside the kiln and connected to the hot air circuit. It seems that it is better to control the burning of these broken firewood by reducing the moisture content a little.
There are many other small modifications such as opening up the bamboo joints, re-adjusting the stacking gap, and pressing heavy objects on the top of the stack. In short, after paying enough price, the crossing forces finally processed the first qualified building material - green bamboo.

The beginning of everything is difficult. Now that the core technology is mastered, whenever a new variety enters the kiln, at most one round of waste products will be burned. The four masters will be able to master the heat, and then register the data in the transcendence force's own brochure.

A river of ice opened up: With the success of the first drying kiln, the next three drying kilns rose from the ground.Four long kiln bodies and two sets of boilers formed two "I"-shaped structures, and the boiler chimney began to spew black smoke day and night.

No matter where the four major kilns go now, there will be a batch of apprentices behind their butts.These people, old and young, are all selected from Hangzhou employees.There are kiln workers who have previously fired carbon kilns and tile kilns, and some young people with flexible minds.

The requirements for these people are not high, as long as they learn to read the thermometer and memorize the processing data of various types of wood in the manual, it is OK.As for other issues. There will be a kiln on duty 24 hours a day.

After the wood is dried out of the kiln, it enters the processing stage.At present, because there is no electricity, the processing of wood is all manual operation, which seems to be very inefficient in crossing the public.However, this efficiency is already super speed in the eyes of all Ming and Dutch carpenters, without it, only Hacksaw.

The metal processing technology in the Middle Ages and the hacksaw blade common to later generations are completely two concepts.After being smelted at low temperature, the wrought iron blocks full of impurities are forged into saw blades by blacksmiths.

This kind of cheap daily necessities naturally does not use the so-called "hundred refining" craftsmanship, so the soft iron bars that need to be repaired anytime and anywhere, as well as other woodworking tools with equally touching hardness, are the causes of houses, ships, furniture and other items in this period. One of the culprits of the high price - labor.

The "imported materials" used by the crossing forces only need to consider the volume, not the price, so in terms of quality, they should take the pathological route as much as possible: ordinary carbon steel saw blades are not required, and the mechanism of making high-grade die steel containing vanadium The saw blade is the artifact in the hands of these medieval carpenters.

The hard, huddled green wood was easily pulled into planks and stakes by a large saw. The extremely smooth plane quickly pushed the planks out of the smooth surface. Carpenters at home and abroad couldn't help touching the tools in their hands in exclamations, and then prepared Make some art furniture and practice it first.

However, at this time, the murderous Master Kunlun appeared.The master nailed a few large pieces of paper to the wall of the shed. On the paper were drawings of the workpieces drawn with blue ink lines. All bamboo and wood materials were limited to several fixed specifications of workpieces. The drawings of the workpieces drawn by blue lines were drawn by craftsmen from Unseen three views, clear at a glance, and clear specifications.

Finally, according to the head, each master worker received a set of measuring tools including a steel tape measure, and was told: if the ruler is there, the ruler will lose his head.

(End of this chapter)