Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 199 Transforming a Steamship
Dinghai Port, Shipbuilding Workshop.

A 30-meter-long centipede boat was dragged ashore, and it was only at this time that Cai Lin lifted the cover on the camel machine.

Yu Hao, the supervisor of the shipbuilding workshop, is still blindfolded and doesn't know what kind of machine it is.

"Director Yu, let's install a pot camel machine at the stern of the centipede boat," Chailin said.

Yu Hao said: "This big thing must weigh seven or eight hundred catties, what is it for?"

"It's not a big guy, it's a little guy. If it's filled with water, it'll weigh a whole [-] jin. This is called a camel machine. It's composed of a boiler and a steam engine. The steam engine drives the propeller to drive the ship to sail fast." Chailin said.

Yu Hao saw that the propeller had a diameter of 100 centimeters, weighed more than [-] kilograms, and was made of fine steel.

Even though there are ready-made boiler machines, transmission shafts, and propellers, it is still very laborious to install them on the boat.

There is a wooden chain hoist gantry crane pulled by manpower at the port, and a pan pack machine weighing more than [-] kilograms is hoisted by pulleys and slowly placed at the stern of the centipede ship.

The bottom of the cabin didn't feel thick, and Yu Hao was worried that the machine would be damaged by the bumps, so he asked the workers to find wooden boards and put a layer of wooden boards underneath.

Yu Hao planned to ask the workers to lift the machine through the gantry crane, but Dian Zhengnan said: "It's not so troublesome, I'll lift it up a little bit, and you can do it a little bit."

As he said that, Dian Zhengnan even lifted the heavy pot camel machine to the side, which made the craftsmen stare in a daze.

The craftsmen first fixed the wooden boards on the bottom of the ship, and then fixed the pot machine on the wooden boards.There are many details that I didn’t think of when building the machine, and now they all need to be improved. Chailin took a notebook and wrote them down one by one. There are still many differences in the marine steam engine.

It is still the old-fashioned way that the flywheel of the steam engine is connected by a belt to transmit power to the drive shaft of the propeller, and the drive shaft drives the propeller.This is only a temporary solution. It is more reliable to use the shaft drive for the high-intensity operation of the propeller, and the belt drive is obviously fooling things.

The present problem is the sealing problem of the transmission shaft opening from the rear opening of the stern, so the boat cannot be leaked and sailed.

During the design, Chai Lin considered quite carefully. The outside of the transmission shaft is a layer of steel pipes. When it turns, the inner shaft rotates, and the outer steel pipe does not rotate.

I can't feel the time for work, and it has been dark for a long time after the installation.

Chailin brought a boiler operator from the second battalion of Tiangong, and arranged for him to burn the boiler slowly, and it would be good if he could start it tomorrow.

In fact, it takes a lot of time to boil from cold water. After all, although the boiler is not big, it still has [-] catties of water.

The operator slept in the cabin, so it was convenient to add coal to manage the boiler at night.

There was nothing to say all night, and everyone came to the cabin the next day, only feeling very warm.

Chai Lin pulled the steam pressure reducing valve, and whining steam spewed out, startling everyone.

Chailin said to the machine operator: "Get ready to start the experiment."

"Ok."

The operator pulls down the steam valve, and the steam engine starts to rotate slowly. After more than ten seconds, the flywheel rotates rapidly, and the drive shaft rotates rapidly under the drive of the belt.

The person in charge of observing the propeller outside shouted: "It's turning, it's turning, it's turning fast."

Yu Hao saw that there was a little trouble at the opening of the stern, because of the vibration, there were small cracks in the sealing and waterproofing done yesterday.Leaks are no joke at sea.

"Owner, stop the pot machine, I need to find a way to re-strengthen the waterproofing of the opening." Yu Hao said.

Chai Lin also saw that since it was rebuilt from an old ship, there must be many inappropriate places.

"Okay, think of a way, and let's go to the port to test it out in the afternoon." Chailin arranged.

The dozen or so craftsmen brought by Yu Hao don't know much about scientific theories, but they can solve problems and have strong hands-on skills.After a while, five or six solutions were proposed.

When Yu Hao was busy, Chai Lin came to the iron mine.

More than [-] miners from Qingzhou lived in Diwozi and ate in tents.

Both Dian Zhengnan and Xie Bao were stunned, seeing people wearing rattan helmets everywhere in the huge mine.The mine is divided into two parts, the southern part is occupied by hired miners.Take a hundred people as a team, set up a team flag, set up a team leader, and set up a team of ten people, with a team leader.In the south, [-] teams gathered to excavate iron ore with iron drills, cross picks, and sledgehammers, and then smashed them with sledgehammers, and some miners used small hand hammers for further crushing.The captains and group leaders are both workers and supervisors. Firstly, they maintain the speed and quality of work, and secondly, they constantly remind them to pay attention to safety. All mine work is made of stones, and safety is very important.

All wore rattan hats lined with fur for warmth and protection.The miners who are responsible for the crushing are also covered with several layers of gauze on their noses and mouths to prevent dust from entering their mouths.

The sources of these [-] people are quite complicated. There are local miners, some recruited from Dengzhou, and more refugees recruited from Qingzhou. It can be regarded as solving the ration problem of the family.

Hesitation. It has been raining and snowing recently, and Shi Xiu's side has stopped recruiting people.

Wang Hong, as the introducer who has recruited the most manpower, is now working as Zhang Han's deputy on the construction site, responsible for coordinating the personnel scheduling of each team and so on.

As soon as Wang Hong raised his head, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had met Chai Lin, and quickly saluted, "Master Chai, you are here."

"Well, let me see how the workers live and work." Chailin said.

Wang Hongdao: "Ten people live in a hut. It's not cold, and the conditions are not bad. The work is relatively easy. When it rains and snows, most of the workers have rested. Only the workers working under the hut are still working. Woolen cloth."

"How's the food?" Chailin asked.

"Breakfast rice porridge pickle pancakes, lunch is usually bone stew plus pancakes, dinner is basically the same, sometimes there are bundles of green onions brought in, and some seafood, much better than at home, where I have to count pickles Eat." Wang Hong said.

A miner saw Chai Lin while working, and suddenly stopped, dropped his sledgehammer and knelt in front of Chai Lin.

"Thank you Master Chai for saving your life." After saying that, he kowtowed to Chai Lin.

Chailin didn't know what was going on, so he quickly pulled him up. The miner was not young, almost 50 years old.

"What's the matter, get up and talk, there is no need to perform this great ceremony." Chailin said.

Wang Hong said: "Master Chai may not remember, this is the miner I introduced on the first day, from our village."

The man said: "My grandson is dying of hunger. Thanks to the one hundred catties of sorghum rice given by Mr. Chai, he was able to survive. So I want to thank Mr. Chai."

Seeing that it was Chailin, many miners saluted one after another.

Chai Lin said at the top of his voice, "Come here today to see how our fellow miners are doing, whether we can sleep well, and whether we can eat enough."

A miner shouted, "I'm having a good time. I haven't bought new clothes for three years at home. I got a new suit, new shoes, and a new hat before I started working here."

Some also said: "It's better than we thought. I thought pancakes and green onions would be good. Who knew there were pickles, rice porridge, bone stew, and occasionally a seafood meal. Life is very good." "

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