Chapter 42 Material Restrictions
When Xu Yi walked into the magic machine tool production and research workshop, one hundred dwarves in the workshop were all working hard.
These 100 dwarves are now in charge of different jobs. Some of them are responsible for continuing to produce the five magic machines necessary for the production of magic fans, such as the magic tooth rolling machine. mechanical.
During this time, the focus of research is on the magic harvester.
After talking with Viscount Leslie last time, Xu Yi was convinced that the prospect of farm machinery is very broad on the Sainz Continent, so he started to study it after returning.
And because he was about to enter the autumn harvest stage, the first target Xu Yi aimed at was a small agricultural harvester.
This research is carried out simultaneously in two aspects, one is the magic circle that represents the power drive of the harvester jointly studied by Xu Yi and Steele, and the other is the mechanical structure of the harvester that these dwarves are responsible for.
Among them, Xu Yi's work is the most important. He must perfectly combine the power of the magic circle with the harvester as a whole. To do this, he needs a lot of practical data support. For this reason, he is almost every day these days. Running back and forth between the production workshop outside the city and the research institute in Bangta City.
The hard work is of course rewarded. After this period of research, the small magic harvester has begun to take shape. Now in this workshop, the dwarves who are responsible for researching the new magic machine have made a look that is only comparable to the earth. The harvester has one or two similar magic power harvesters, which are constantly being debugged.
Seeing Xu Yi coming in, the dwarf Camby, who was appointed by Xu Yi as the workshop director, walked over.
"Hey, Xu... Oh no, President, have you come to see the magic harvester again?" Camby raised his stubby arms and greeted Xu Yi.
"Okay, Camby, just call me by my name." Xu Yi smiled and nodded. "That's right. Didn't you see that the wheat was turning yellow in Lord Viscount's farmland outside? It seems that the harvest will start in less than a month. If the harvester comes out, it will take at least half a year."
"Don't worry, the brothers have been working overtime these days. You see, this thing has actually been made, but there will always be some small problems, otherwise, you can go directly to the ground."
"It's better to find problems now than to use them later."
Xu Yi and Camby walked to the side of the dwarves who were debugging the magic harvester and asked carefully. They found that the problem they encountered now was that after the machine was running at high speed for a period of time, it would obviously not run smoothly.
No need to check at all, Xu Yi knew that it must be because of a fault in the bearing.
Sure enough, when I opened it, the power shaft of the magic harvester was obviously worn, resulting in unevenness on the surface of the rotating shaft, which would naturally affect the operation.
Xu Yi is actually very helpless about this, because this is entirely caused by the material problem of the bearing.
Due to the limitations of iron smelting technology on the Sainz Continent, there is currently no alloy steel suitable for making bearings that can have both wear resistance and tensile resistance.
Regardless of whether it is white iron or gray iron, it will be insufficient to create this kind of bearing that requires constant high-speed rotating friction.
Although the previous magic fan also needs high-speed bearings, because the power output of the magic fan is not large and the pressure caused by it is not large, it can be handled with simple iron bearings, but it needs stronger power to change to a magic harvester. It is very easy to have problems on the machine.
Xu Yi couldn't solve the material problem for the time being. He thought about it for a while and could only adopt a compromise solution. Let the dwarves add an iron ball roller in the middle of the bearing, which can effectively reduce friction and prolong the life of the bearing. Some.
Of course, this will also make the output power relatively weak, so Xu Yi had to reconsider the modification plan of the magic circle to ensure that the magic circle can output enough power.
"Well, after all, the industrial system on this continent is too thin. If there are more than ten kinds of alloy steel materials to choose from, like on the earth, where would it be so troublesome?" Seeing the dwarves get busy again because of a small change of their own, Xu Yi couldn't help shaking his head and sighing in his heart.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi naturally thought of the material research laboratory he set up in the dwarf tribe.
Although the research fee of 500 gold coins a month that he promised at that time was mostly to obtain these 100 dwarf forging masters, he still held a glimmer of hope in his heart.
If the dwarves of the dwarf tribe can really achieve breakthroughs in material research, then the investment of 500 gold coins per month is very worthwhile.
Of course, as an expert in mechanical engineering, Xu also knows that there is no trick in material research, and can only be improved step by step, which is not something that can be rushed.
"Forget it, the so-called mechanical engineer originally exists to solve these problems. To complete tasks under limited conditions is the meaning of my existence." Thinking of this, Xu Yi habitually encouraged himself in his heart. .
Immediately, he thought that because of this small change, he had to make corresponding changes to the magic circle. And when he thought of modifying the magic circle, Xu Yi naturally thought of the two girls who were in the office at this time.
"It's broken. I almost forgot the two of them because of my work here." Xu Yi slapped his thigh, pulled Camby to explain a few words, and hurriedly left the workshop and returned to the office.
"I'm sorry, I have something to delay..." Xu Yi pushed open the door of the office and was about to apologize when he suddenly saw Akali and Evita both lying on the table, concentrating on the magic in front of them. After thinking and changing the array drawing, he immediately stopped the following words.
It wasn't until Xu Yi stood at the door for a while that Akali was probably a little tired, she straightened up and stretched, and then she found Xu Yi.
"Huh? Lord President, when did you come back?" Akali asked in surprise.
Hearing what Akali said, Evita also came to her senses and turned her head to look at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "It's been a while, but seeing that you two are very attentive, I didn't bother you."
"What is there to disturb." Akali stretched out her small fist and knocked on her head, complaining, "Master President, the drawings you gave us are really troublesome enough, Evita and I thought about it for a long time, and even Not a single one. Don't you think we're too stupid to even solve these problems?"
"How could that be." Xu Yi laughed. "To tell you the truth, it took me several days to solve these problems. If you can solve them all in such a short period of time, believe it or not, I will pay you a hundred gold coins a month. Do you want to keep you?"
Akali couldn't help but rolled her eyes at Xu Yi: "You know we can't do it, so you deliberately said such a high remuneration to tempt us."
Evita noticed another thing: "Master President, do you mean that these drawings are actually problems that you have solved? Then... can you show me the solutions that have been solved?"
Xu Yi shook his head: "I'm afraid this will not work, because the final solution can be regarded as the secret of our chamber of commerce at present, and it is easy not to show it to others."
Evita snorted in disappointment and lowered her head.
"Of course, if you officially join our chamber of commerce, then these secrets will not be secrets for you." Xu Yi smiled again.
Akali said dejectedly: "Master President, these drawings you gave are so difficult, now I am afraid that we want to join your chamber of commerce, you will not want us, right?"
"That's not necessarily true." Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "Can I see your solution first?"
After taking the blueprints handed over by the two of them, Xu Yi carefully looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction.
Although the two did not give a complete solution, from some of the ideas they left on these drawings, Xu Yi can fully see that they are indeed worthy of graduating from the Lampari Royal Academy and have an understanding of the magic circle. It is very good, and the ideas and solutions proposed have reached a very high level, even very close to the solution Xu Yi finally researched.
And from the thinking of the two, it can also be seen that the personalities of the two are indeed different.
In comparison, Akali's ideas are more active and imaginative. There are some extremely bold ideas in the plan, which can even be called whimsical.
Evita, on the other hand, is a little more law-abiding, but it can be seen that her basic skills are extremely solid, every step of the solution has a solid foundation, and the overall concept is almost perfect.
If Evita is given enough time, I believe she will eventually come up with a realistic and feasible plan.
After reading these drawings, Xu Yi was extremely happy.
Although these two Steele classmates are not powerful magicians, but as Steele said, they are both competent enough for the current work of the institute.
If they join in, plus Steele, Xu Yi will have three more reliable helpers, which will definitely greatly improve his efficiency in magic circle research.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi put down the blueprints, met the expectant eyes of the two, and showed them a hearty smile, saying, "I have to say, both of them are very good, completely in line with the requirements of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce Magic Research Institute. Job requirements. Now I want to ask the two of you a question solemnly. Would you like to join our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"