Su You couldn't help but feel a black line on his forehead: "Brother, please stop making trouble! This is called artificial incubation!"

Shi Tong curled his lips: "Spending so much firewood and building a house specifically just to hatch dozens of eggs, it really... hurts the eggs."

Before Su You said anything, Shi Wei was dissatisfied at first: "Are you trying to say that brother Xiaoyou did something wrong again?"

"I..." Shi Tong really wanted to say it, but he was slapped in the face too many times, so he was just embarrassed.

Shi Fu smiled and said: "Stop talking so much, build the kiln first."

There are two kilns, both of which are small and belong to experimental-level equipment. One is a steamed bun kiln, which can burn porcelain and pottery, and the other is a graphite crucible kiln, which can smelt metals and other substances that require high temperatures.

The design this time is very reasonable. There are pipes arranged outside the flue, and the remaining heat energy can be used to preheat the intake air. This measure alone can increase the furnace temperature a lot.

The asbestos has also arrived. The fiber is of high quality and should have been processed. It was delivered quickly by Adunmi Ming Qingzhou.

Also brought with them were the proceeds from several hundred guan of liquor, but the Erlin Department had no currency, so they directly used copperware to offset the account.

General Huaiyuan was very wealthy. One pound of copperware was worth 800 yuan. In addition, some of the profits were shared with Su You, making a total of 350 pounds of copperware.

In addition, countless skins were given as a gift from the general in return for the sword. This was an exchange of favors.

It seems that the Erlin Department made a lot of money from this transaction.

Also coming were the various minerals collected by Atunmi, which was also Su You's request.

The two small kilns are not far from the water canal, so the water power must be fully utilized.

Ceramic roller bearings have extremely small friction. Under the same water flow dynamic conditions, the efficiency of this waterwheel is unmatched by mills in other parts of the Song Dynasty.

The children were very familiar with drawing and directed the workers to paste thick asbestos on the inner layers of the two small kilns, while Suyou and Shifu Shitong were studying another equipment, the punch press.

It sounds very high-end, but in fact the main component is a long iron handle with a cast iron gear on the head. The gear shaft is fixed on the left side of the U-shaped iron frame, and the long iron handle is also on the right side of the iron frame.

There is another gear rod that meshes with it, and the other end is fastened to the right side of the U-shaped iron frame. When the handle is pressed downward, the gear on the handle head moves downward with the driven gear rod.

The end of the gear rod, inside the U-shaped iron frame, is connected to a stamping rod that is set in the sliding circular hole. The gear rod will exert pressure on it.

This power is very terrifying, because it is equivalent to two levers. The power arm is the long handle and the gear rod, and the resistance arm is the radius of the driving gear and the length of the connection between the rivet and the stamping rod. The ratio of the two is ten to one and eight to one.

one.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the pressure on the long iron handle is amplified eighty times!

Fifty kilograms of pressure, after exercise, turned into a force of four thousand kilograms on the head!

After replacing the punch and seat of the punch, Shi Tong turned the screw handle to adjust the height of the base.

Su You directed Shi Fu to install the power transmission mechanism, which was actually a simple cam that turned the rotation of the water wheel into the straight up and down motion of the long iron rod.

The base and punch are detachable, and there are bayonet holes on them that can be used to place various stamping dies.

Let’s start with the simplest thing. There are more than a dozen hemispherical dimples on the seat, as well as on the punch plate.

Shi Tong placed a small piece of iron rod in each pit and shouted to Su You: "Master, give it a try!"

Su You asked Shi Fu to move the wrench, and the cam was driven by the gear on the water wheel shaft and began to rotate.

Then the connecting rod was driven by the cam again, and the punch was lifted first. Shi Fu inserted the mold bed into the groove, and the punch quickly fell down again, completely ignoring the small iron block in the pit, and easily attached to the mold bed.

Together.

When the punch rises again, the small iron blocks on the mold bed all turn into shiny beads, with a thin circle of redundant material on the edge, like small Jupiters.

Shi Fu raised the clutch, stopped the movement of the machine, and rushed to Shi Tong with agility that the elderly could never possess: "Is it done?"

Shi Tong was speechless: "It's so awesome, the iron ball is just like clay."

Shi Fuli was overjoyed: "You boy, with this thing, can we get the ball bearings you mentioned?"

Su You counted his possessions on his fingers: "Now that we have stamping technology, heat treatment technology, and lathe cutting technology, ball bearings should be fine."

Shi Fu looked at the sky and thought: "It seems a bit wasteful to only use it to make rolling balls, huh?"

Su You laughed and said: "This thing is tailor-made for your Shi family. Put a piece of copper in it and bang! It comes out as a copper plate!"

Shi Fu was dumbfounded. At the same speed as the punch machine was rising and falling, he was doing the same thing as sending copper coins: "Bang! One...bang! Two...bang! Three...my god...this is hundreds of dollars."

Just for a moment..."

Su You didn't bother to care about the Shi family father and son drooling madly. He took the iron ball and checked the error between the upper and lower hemispheres. The accuracy of the centimeter was 0.1 millimeter, which was still a little too big.

But this is just the beginning. Next, you have to use pliers to remove the excess cutting edge, and then throw it into the ball mill, where countless iron balls roll and rub against each other, and finally you can get a perfect ball.

However, the error between the beads may still be a little too large, which is something that there is currently no solution for.

Putting aside these thoughts, Su You looked at the ditch flowing down from the mountain: "There are still many water trucks needed..."

Shi Fu has been excited by the great prospect of stamping copperware and is almost going crazy: "How much do you want? Just ask, You Boy!"

Su You smiled and said: "Forget it, let's do it step by step. Just follow the principle of this punch machine. First make a few manual punching machines, and change the punch head to a steel blade, which is a cutting machine. It is used in the bookshop of my in-laws.

Worth it."

Shi Fu waved his hand: "No, no, no, Xiaoyou, please design a forging bed for me first. It can be used to forge iron. This thing saves labor!"

This requirement may seem simple, but in fact the mechanical principles involved are quite different.

It is impossible to have a forging machine in later generations. At present, the only thing that can be realized is a spring hammer, and it is the most primitive leaf spring hammer.

A spring steel plate is used to make a cantilever, connecting rods are hung at both ends, and a square hammer is suspended from the two connecting rods.

The top of the spring steel plate is driven by an eccentric wheel, which is responsible for the lifting and lowering of the hammer head.

The spring itself is responsible for buffering the resistance of the forging, and also produces short-range repeated movements up and down, simulating continuous hammering.

The production of spring steel plates is no longer difficult for Shi Tong. It is actually a very simple problem of steel tempering and heat treatment.

After drawing the drawings of the forging bed, Shi Tong and Shi Fu took it and ran away. Su You explained the design while drawing the drawings, and both father and son praised it for how wonderful it was.

Looking at the old man and the young child walking away, Su You touched his nose and said, "What a wonderful thing, the oil hammer is the way to go..."

However, before there was rubber, it was still quite difficult to design a steam hammer or a hydraulic hammer by relying only on brass apron seals.

The next few days will be about improving the waterwheel room. Su You leads everyone to learn and use it, and transform the power clutch into a more perfect one.

Soon the first group left, and Li Shuanshuo came with the second group.

Also brought along were iron sand, coke, graphite crucibles and sawing machines.

Equipped with an air preheating system, a strong blast system and a furnace with an asbestos insulation inner wall, the smelting effect immediately went up to an order of magnitude. Su You estimated that 1,500 degrees Celsius would be no problem.

The heating chamber and the reduction chamber are separated, allowing strong oxygen feeding, while the reduction reaction is carried out independently by the carbon powder and iron ore powder in the crucible.

The only thing we need now is pure carbon black. This Su oil will be obtained later by carbonizing pine smoke with sulfuric acid and cleaning it. For now, let’s replace it with the black soot adsorbed on the chimney.

Then the children in the village must be mobilized for this matter, so the villagers started making trouble again, getting more and more crazy! Xiaoyou is now leading the children to take advantage of it!

The effect of soot is definitely not as good as pure carbon, but it is much better than the previous carbon powder. The main reason is that it contains almost no sulfur, so the obtained manganese steel has excellent performance.

Suyou has positioned itself as a research base and experimental base from now on.

As for the problems of mass production and quasi-industrialization, just leave it to a few major aristocratic families to worry about, and just make your own laboratory-grade products worthy of their tribute and dividends.

The sawing machine was connected to the waterwheel, which was very efficient. Wood cubes, wooden strips, planks... were quickly piled up next to the waterwheel house.

Every day, many villagers come to see the strange thing, and those who are curious want to try it out.

It's just the beginning of the winter break, and now Suyou is not short of money, so we simply recruit the villagers and let's start work on improving the water canals!

First of all, a mountain pond should be built at the entrance of the canal to store water. In addition, the diversion of the previous stream water should be redistributed and most of it should be introduced into the canal to increase the power of the waterwheel.

At the same time, sediment sedimentation tanks and reservoirs must be built in different sections of the canal, as well as additional waterwheel houses and access roads along the way. The amount of engineering work is also quite large.

After Hachigong saw the power of the waterwheel sawing machine and heard that Su You would transform the waterwheel house into a mill and oil mill in the future, he immediately took the initiative to become Party B.
Chapter completed!