Advanced and Backward Collide

The people from the institute did not argue. They merely smiled indifferently. They simply had never seen it before. Once they witnessed the power of the Steam Engine, they would probably be the first to praise it to the heavens.

Luo Chong came to the site in person as usual that day, because he also wanted to see the Steam Engine at work with his own eyes.

"Start assembling it." He gave the order, and the people over there immediately got to work.

The Steam Table Saw's workbench had already been built, and the space had been cleared in advance. The researchers only needed to install the Steam Engine on it.

To make later repairs and maintenance more convenient, the Steam Engine was placed outside the workbench at Luo Chong's request. Thus, to extend the distance between the flywheel and the table saw's drive wheel, they had no choice but to connect them with an intermediate drive shaft. Belts were fitted over the intermediate shaft at both ends to ensure long-distance power transmission between the Steam Engine and the table saw.

Since the Iron Horse Type 1 had already been fully assembled beforehand, this assembly went very quickly. In only about half an hour, every component had been installed.

On either side of the long, narrow table saw was a circular saw blade. One was enormous, with a diameter of a full meter and forty-five centimeters exposed above the workbench—enough to split ordinary-sized logs. The other was half as large, with a diameter of sixty centimeters and twenty-five centimeters exposed above the surface, specifically for cutting the finer sections of material.

Although it was still somewhat oversized, it was more than sufficient for large wooden products such as sailboats.

Once this strange new saw had been assembled, quite a few