Chapter 166 163. Magic Boiler
On the 29th, Kuryagan, Johnny and others finally made a set of handmade steam Cylinder, as well as matching Piston, Reversing Valve, Connecting Rod, Flywheel, etc.
After hearing the good news, Landen ran to Magic Workshop. Even though Steam Boiler was still in production, Landen still wanted to test the completion of Cylinder first.
In order for Cylinder to operate, gas must be delivered smoothly into Cylinder, but there was no Mage or air supply device of Wind School in the camp, so Landen simply brought Blaze.
The experimental setup was very rough and simple. Blaze was tied up in the yard. The experiment required her to release an airflow close to Whirlwind and send it directly into the steam inlet with a diameter of about 20 cm on Cylinder 15 meters away. If the air reaches Piston and can turn Flywheel, it means Cylinder is basically successful.
Let a Warcraft do such a precise experiment, it can be said that Beastmen was silent after listening to it, Tower of Purity was in tears after listening to it, and Landen himself is not very reliable.
"Blaze, not Wind Blade, don't break this Cylinder." In the workshop, Landen was riding on a horse, trying to guide Blaze's Wind School with his own Battle Qi Magic Power. Once it feels that the Wind Blade inspired by Blaze is too strong, Landen has to use its own Battle Qi to guide it away from Cylinder.
"Dang~dang" several Wind Blade hit the wall built by Earth Fairy, causing a huge vibration.
"It's really useful to trim the burrs. I'll make sure you smooth them before painting the wall next time." Looking at the Wind Blade and Landen inspired by Blaze, it feels like controlling the bucket of an excavator to lift a bottle and pour water into a cup.
"Sir," Kaiyi ran over, "Can you let me communicate with her?"
I saw Centaur Girl walking up to Blaze, with his hands in a praying posture, his eyes drooping, and silently reciting prayers. Magic Beast Horse, who was a little restless just now, understood and put the huge horse head against the girl's forehead.
"This is..." Johnny and others looked at it in shock, but they were thinking in their hearts, these are all four hooves, can they really have a common language?
About 10 minutes later, Blaze really inspired a relatively weak Wind Blade. After being 5 meters away, the wind weakened, and then the second Wind Blade hit. After the two winds intersected, a strange air flow was formed. After a few seconds, the air flow accurately entered the steam inlet. The magic of the wind drove the air into the cylinder, pushing Piston, Piston drives Connecting Rod to rotate Flywheel, Connecting Rod and Slide Valve drive Reversing Valve in Cylinder, allowing the air to drive Piston to reciprocate.
"Boom boom boom" Blaze's magic only lasted for tens of seconds, and Flywheel only spun a few times, but these few turns proved that the results of the labor of Kuryagan, Sophia and others can be run.
"Sir?" Sophia looked at the running wheel, "If you only need this wheel to rotate, then why don't you use the wind to push Windmill directly?" Then he drew on a piece of paper, "You can draw some Wind School Rune on the blades. Teacher Gandalf taught me that this can increase the flow speed of the wind."
"There is something wrong with your Windmill. If the middle shaft is not strong enough, it will become useless soon." Landen looked at the girl and took a Charcoal Pencil. "You can also remove the shaft and make a Bladeless Fan." Landen said while drawing, "You can also make this kind of spiral fan, so that the contact area between the wind and the fan is larger."
"Sir, these?" Sophia, Firefly, Johnny and even Kaiyi all came over and looked at the drawings drawn by Landen.
"You can try all of these. My idea is very simple. What I need is power. It can be boiling water in a boiler, converting coal into power, or magic into power." For Landen, Coal Mine is a ready-made resource, so there is no need to use it in vain. But if Sophia is inspired and can develop magic to convert it into power, or make power more efficient, that would also be great.
"Let's give it a try, but I'm afraid there are still many parts that you need to purchase separately." Johnny looked embarrassed.
"It's okay. You tell me this afternoon what else you need to buy, and I'll ask Dugan to buy it all."
In the afternoon, Landen talked to Dugan. Dugan reported that there were some factories at Imperial Capital that had similar needs to Landen, and he had asked John Mage to buy them from Imperial Capital.
"John asked you if you want to buy small and medium-sized Connecting Rod and Crank." Dugan is not familiar with industrial vocabulary, but Landen understands it. "John said that there are such things in some factories of Imperial Capital. If you don't mind scrapping parts, it should be quite cheap."
Immediately afterwards, Dugan specifically took a note written to him by John, explaining that the so-called scrapped parts were because the magic Rune on the parts was scrapped, not because there was a problem with the structure of the workpiece. Once Rune failed and the magic properties disappeared, the price of the workpiece dropped by an order of magnitude.
"If you can, help me buy some bearings and fans." In line with the principle of utilizing existing human industrial achievements as much as possible, Landen put forward all his needs, and also specially drew a sample diagram for Dugan to draw. "Has John ever said which equipment in the factory such components are used on?"
"He seemed to have mentioned Rune stamping or something."
Landen had a new understanding of the empire's industry, and entrusted John Mage to purchase these scrap parts as much as possible.
In the evening, Landen specifically contacted Ben·Kaul and wanted to know which equipment in Imperial Capital would use the transmission structure.
"Functionally speaking, your equipment is not uncommon and is used in many places. You should have made Magic Elevator in Dragon Tooth City, and that equipment used a similar device." Ben Kaul kept recalling.
"Yes, but there is no magic furnace in my castle, and there is no Ley Line under the castle. I want to use coal as energy."
"It's not impossible. As far as I know, some Imperial Capital arsenals have manufactured some machines for stamping and engraving Rune in recent years. I guess some of them are similar to what you need."
"In addition, the Empire Salt and Iron Department has very similar equipment, but in Transmission Box, they are not Connecting Rod, but metal with Rune painted with a repulsive effect. However, the company will probably not sell you such a transmission box."
"Tell me what I can buy." Landen doesn't think that Salt and Iron Department's equipment can be bought immediately.
"There used to be a relatively primitive one, which has been out of use for hundreds of years, but... Wendy, why don't you take someone to search in those caves tomorrow, maybe there is one more," Ben ordered the girl beside him. "
Of course, Landen couldn't just wait for news from Royal Capital. He asked Kuryagan to first manufacture 4 or 5 sets in small batches according to the already explored plans for Connecting Rod and Cylinder.
After another three days, Kuryagan finally made an iron lid for the medium-sized Salt-Boiling Pot. The lid has a water injection port and a steam outlet. After Kaiyi drew Rune Finally, it can be combined with a Salt-Boiling Pot to form a Steam Boiler. After being assembled with a set of Cylinder, the output power can drive a Water Wheel to lift water to the height of 2-3 floors.
The heating part of the steam furnace is composed of Fire Fairy combustion-supporting Heating Rune plates. If coal is simply burned, the heating efficiency will be significantly reduced.
Landen I have seen a boiler room for a period of time in my previous life. After the boiler was initially completed, we began to design a preheating device to use the heat of the exhaust steam to heat the water that is going to enter the boiler in advance.