69novels Chapter 252: The Difficulty of Making Torches
Chapter 252: The Difficulty of Making Torches
After Christmas every year, time goes by very quickly.
The students of Hogwarts have their own joys and sorrows. The two roommates are now studying like clockwork, non-stop. They finally feel the malice brought by the exams.
The homework assigned by the professors consumed all their time and energy. Adam's girlfriend even had a falling out with him because of the time.
Ben? Forget about Ben. Even now, this guy is still casting a net to catch fish.
After the New Year, Sainz returned to the life of going out early and coming back late like he did in the lower grades. After all, there was one more thing to do, and it was not easy to make a large brazier with sufficient firepower.
This is not as simple as simply enlarging something.
After all, runes are not real words. The meaning of a word will not change no matter it is enlarged or reduced, but runes will most likely lose their function if they are arbitrarily enlarged.
For example, if you want to get a bigger fishing net, the correct way is to continue weaving rather than enlarging it proportionally. Otherwise, the mesh will be as big as a bed, and you will have no chance of catching any fish.
Wanting greater firepower but not having to make them mechanically one by one, the problem facing Sainz was how to automate the production of torches.
There are two easiest ways to solve this problem:
One is "copying", making a device that imitates his movements. While he makes a torch, the device also makes several at the same time.
Another idea is to unfold it. Assuming the rune on the torch is a painting, unfold the painting, make a "printing" device, do batch "printing", and then roll it back onto the torch.
does it work?
It seems feasible, but in fact it is not feasible!
There's no way, this is magic!
The Gublai fairy fire is magic!
The Torch Base is an alchemical item and a different kind of magic.
Magic power is needed for "gluing" in many links. Simply using a "lathe" to carve out the shape is useless.
How to do?
Doesn’t it have to be handmade one by one?
Actually, it is not the case. In the process of making the torch, magic is not required in all places. Except for some key points that require magic power to flow through, many places require simple mechanical processing.
The number of parts and runes needed by wizards to make fairy fire must be very small. The most cost-effective way to make all the parts and runes is to rub them by hand.
At this time, it is not worthwhile to spend energy to design a set of mass production equipment.
It’s different for Sai.
He estimated that the thermal power of a single fairy fire was about 1.5 kilowatts, which was approximately equal to 2 horsepower, and the engine power of his cruise ship was 1.2 horsepower. If he had to rub it by hand, he would have developed a phobia of demons from then on!
If torches were used, not to mention other things, I don’t know if these 6,000 pieces of firewood could be put into the boiler of the steam turbine!
Therefore, the base of the Gublai Fairy Fire must not only be made intelligently, but also change its shape.
In the months after Christmas, Sainz's main job was to try to change the shape of the fairy flame and try to split and simplify the structure of the torch.
After trying several approaches, he announced that the "unfolding" approach was not working.
Unless he could use his "divine consciousness" to enter the interior of the material and perform internal carving like some monks in the world of immortal cultivation, he could only carve runes one by one on the surface of small parts step by step, and then assemble and enchant them.
The production of those small modular parts does not require magical operations at the beginning, and can be completed by simple mechanical processing, but the magical assembly process requires the wizard to do it personally!
In this way, the time to assemble a base is indeed greatly shortened, directly to half a day!
However, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of 6000 pieces.
Three thousand days may not sound like a lot, but it is actually more than eight years. It would be a waste of so much time that Mr. Sai would rather not have this magic ship.
No, this method still doesn’t work!
So how do we reduce this magic step?
Can it be done just once, just like the final ignition process?
Sainz thought it should be possible. The enchantment process did not actually consume much of his magic power. It was only because magic power was required every time that it took up his time.
Just like writing a sentence repeatedly with a pen, not much ink is actually consumed, but because there is only one pen, time is consumed.
If you could draw the ink from the pen and distribute it among several pens so that they can write at the same time, you can save a lot of time.
Now the question becomes, can Sainz assemble multiple pieces at the same time?
Yes, but it takes practice!
While considering multi-line operations, he had another problem to consider: could he really make 6,000 torches and stick them in pots?
This is obviously a bit funny, and the most important thing is that it may not be able to be inserted!
One torch occupies one square decimeter, so six thousand torches would occupy six thousand square decimeters, sixty square meters, or about eight meters square...
Huh?
You know what, it’s a bit weird, but it can be arranged strangely enough!
If the combustion chamber is designed to be multi-layered, the floor space can be reduced!
So, although six thousand torches seem like a lot, their size is actually not as large as imagined?
Of course, there is another issue to consider. The base of the torch can only support the fairy fire, but it does not mean that the base itself is resistant to high temperatures, nor does it mean that they can maintain their complete shape after being thrown into the boiler.
It is easier to understand with an analogy. For example, when a normal torch is held up, you don't have to consider the wooden part of the handle because the heat of the flame is dissipated upwards.
But if you put this torch in a small space, or even put several torches together, the handles will probably catch fire due to the mutual burning.
This problem is easy to solve. You just need to design a water tank and insert the base of the torch deep enough. Then only the burning part will be exposed outside, and the relatively fragile base part below will be soaked in circulating water, which can solve the possible overheating of the base.
While practicing multi-line operations, Sainz was still looking for a way to "change the form of the torch and make it bigger", that is, trying to split the runes. He still hadn't given up the idea of "weaving a fishing net".
If you can hammer out an iron ring, then it is possible to use a hammer to hammer out a chain mail.
If you can fully understand the runes and make them into any shape you like, then you can make a "fireball" of any power depending on your mood.
"Well, my skills are limited, so I'll leave it at that for now!"
Looking at the parts that cannot be finely controlled if there are more than five, Sainz was a little puzzled. Even if he could make five at a time, he could only make ten a day, which was still far from enough.
"No, we have to find a way!"
Suddenly Sainz's eyes lit up, "Hey? Got it!"