The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 101 Refinement!
Under the guidance of Eckert, the old carpenter quickly further improved the model, and now the function of the jewel with a complete structure to activate the trigger is obvious.

Taking advantage of this time, Ickert also explained some "knowledge of magic" to the two craftsmen.

In short, Ikert only needs them to know that the excitation can be completed by hitting the gem.

After Ickert finished his explanation, the two craftsmen immediately had new ideas.

"Lord, according to your intention, we can also replace the position of the ram with gems, so that there is no need to install gems and magic crystals in a compact space at the same time."

The blacksmith Hammer suggested that the disadvantage of putting gems and magic crystals together is obvious, because these two things are irregular.

Even if the gem can be polished, Ickert can't care about the magic crystal.

Such a compact layout brings great challenges to the installation of the fixture.

But in fact, this is also a helpless move.

"Hammerhead, your idea is good, but if you replace the hammer with gemstones, you also need clamps, and you need adjustable clamps to adapt to different sizes of gemstones."

Ickert is very clear about what this adjustable clamp looks like, but if you want to make that thing, you have to give some screw-making technology.

The poor and white Ickert really doesn't have that kind of skill.

"Hammer, think about it, can we produce such a fixture?"

"Uh, it seems impossible."

"Right."

The appearance of flintlock guns is the progress of the entire industrial level. Although Ickert can guide the craftsmen to make a few, they are limited to only a few.

Even rubbing a few by hand now seems to be very difficult.

"Okay, the structure is determined in this way. The problem of irregular gemstones and magic crystals is solved by fillers and fixtures. The rest is the production of the whole gun."

If you want to make a gun, you have to solve the processing problem of each part. Regarding this point, Eckert in his previous life can be regarded as a "worker" who has done metalworking internships.

Don't say everything, at least know a little bit, and sometimes, a little bit is enough.

If it is not enough, Ickert is also broken.

Anyway, for these movements, sears, and triggers, they can either be forged or cast, or they can be fitted by a fitter.

There is nothing in the world that cannot be rubbed out by a fitter (dog head).

How happy it would be to take an old fitter and his tools across.

After the last exchange, Ickert and the others still decided that these small parts are best solved by a fitter.

So far, what else can the old carpenter say?I can only pick up the saw and file to work.

It's just that the object of the file has now changed from wood to iron.

I hope old Kent can find a new pleasure in rolling iron.

As for the blacksmith hammerhead and ikt, you need to solve the problem of spring steel first.

This thing is the real core technology of the flintlock gun. No matter how simple the mechanism of the gun mechanism is, it would be useless without spring steel.

Otherwise, why did the ancestors play matchlock guns for so long? If you talk too much, you will cry.

As for how to deal with such things as spring steel, the average traveler will most likely not know.

But it was a coincidence that Eckert fell into the trap of machinery in his previous life.

Although the machine cannot be said to be very bad, if some qualifiers are added, it will be very bad.

Leaving aside the nagging things for the time being, in short, Ickert was fortunate enough to observe the production of spring steel during his "metalworking internship".

Making spring steel is nothing more than a heat treatment.

To put it simply, it is heating at high temperature, then quenching hard, and then tempering at medium temperature after quenching.

These are the general steps.

But what kind of raw material is used, how much is quenched, how much is tempered, what liquid is used for cooling, how to get the specific temperature and so on
That would be a little difficult.

When Eckert was in the "metalworking internship", he was only lucky enough to operate it once.

Recalling the feelings at that time, there is a high probability that the old worker said "It can be quenched!", and Eckert said "Wuhu! Quenching!", and the old worker said "It can be tempered!", and Eckert said "Wuhu! Temper !”.

And then, and then lol.

After all, no one thought that this knowledge could be applied after time travel.

However, in the spirit of scientific experimentation, Ickert believed that with his and Hammerhead's recorded observations and conclusions, it should be enough to overcome the difficulties.

Anyway, if you don't give it a try, Ickert will not be reconciled.

Ickert first used magic to heat the furnace directly, and then the two of them took off their shirts one after another, and they were ready to start forging spring steel naked.

But in order to make spring steel, you must first have steel.

The iron ingots in the blacksmith shop and those smelted from ore are all pig iron with high carbon content.

The Sekarion Empire has a way to make steel, but most of them are made of forged wrought iron using carburizing technology.

Generally speaking, the artisans of the empire would use lower furnace temperatures to smelt large chunks of iron, and the iron elements would be directly reduced by charcoal to produce wrought iron with lower carbon content.

The texture of wrought iron is too soft, so people want to increase its hardness, so there is a carburizing forging method. Through repeated forging, carbon elements can penetrate into the iron elements.

This is the practice of increasing the carbon content of wrought iron.

Of course, the craftsmen of the empire could also smelt pig iron with higher carbon content, but they did not master the method of reducing the carbon content in pig iron.

But Eckert knew.

This method is the famous "fried steel method".

Many Chinese people know this steelmaking method, and it is reasonable for Eckert to know it.

In short, the steel frying method is to oxidize the carbon and other elemental impurities in the pig iron by heating the pig iron to a molten or semi-molten state, and then blowing air or adding refined ore powder.

By controlling the time for frying steel, steel with different carbon content can be obtained, or wrought iron can be directly fried.

This steelmaking method is obviously faster than forging, and due to special reasons, the first type of gemstone trigger gun that Ickert wants to manufacture will require no less steel.

Forging is definitely not enough.

Based on the fact that the melting point of alloys is lower than that of pure metals, Ickert directly got the wrought iron cauldron left by the villagers of the previous generation, engraved runes on it, and was ready to start operating.

Hammer poured several kilograms of pig iron into the cauldron in one go, and started stirring with a wrought iron shovel while heating.

On the other hand, Ickert turned into a human-shaped blower, and directly used magic to blow it, which is much more powerful than a human blower.

With Ickert, the human-shaped blower, Hammerhead can rest assured and vigorously stir the gradually melting pig iron.

Two strong men were working hard in the blacksmith's hut, and they were very happy.

For Ickert, anticipation of the new weapon was enough to erase any misery.

For Hammerhead, it is also quite joyful to learn new knowledge.

It's a pity that because Ickert used too much force, the first batch of fried iron was pure wrought iron.

But it doesn't matter, the resources in the territory are still enough for them to continue to build, and Ickert can just take this opportunity to summarize the steel frying technology in detail.

(End of this chapter)