Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

These copper ingots were smelted yesterday. They were long strips, like firewood, irregular and flat, and piled up in a small pile in the grass shed.

Next to it is a jagged square tripod, the surface is covered with large and small bubble holes, and a few pieces are missing, like a black hard rag after heavy use.

Fang Chang calculated the amount of fuel left in the charcoal pool, and slowly totaled it up in his mind. Regarding the idea and plan of casting the tripod first, he was going to let go first.

As the saying goes:

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

As the saying goes:

Sharpening a knife does not cut firewood by mistake.

Fang Chang plans to make some tools first, and then use these tools to improve the quality of labor, so as to ensure the production of this cooker.

He began to enumerate in his mind, what kind of work he needs to do next, and what tools are needed in these jobs.

The first is the stone ax used to pull the tree, it is best to replace it.

The efficiency of the metal ax will be much higher, and the shape of the ax is thick and strong, the shape is simple, suitable for casting, as long as it is strong enough, it is not easy to make a failed product that is easy to break.

Boards have always been a shortcoming in Fang Chang's work. If you don't want to use an ax to chop slowly, and a tree can only produce one board, a bronze saw is definitely a necessity.

Since the saw teeth need to be staggered left and right to avoid the phenomenon of sawing, this work is not simple and has a lot of technical content.

Other than that, a shovel is also excellent.

Always using stone flakes to dig the soil is not very efficient, although Fang Chang doubts that if he uses his ten fingers to dig the soil without tools, the speed will be faster than the excavator, but the posture will be too indecent.

Think about it, bending down on the ground like a cat or a rabbit, digging hard with both hands, digging up and throwing a flow of soil like a fountain, pouring into the air behind, gradually piled up mounds of soil...

That's horrible.

For the rest, if you have enough time and energy, you can also try a plane and a mine draft. The former can be used to plan and polish the wooden boards, and the latter can save you from using an ax when mining.

Walking into the thatched shed, he picked up the failed Fang Ding from yesterday, and Fang Chang hit it with his right palm.

Boom—! Boom—!

The proportion of copper and tin in the bronze is very good. It took a little effort to smash the copper tripod into a small pile of bronze blocks, and put them together with the copper ingots. They will be the raw materials for casting tools.

This time Fang Chang learns to be good and considers making an ax first.

He is not familiar with this, and he does not know how to prepare molding sand, Fang Chang finally chose a rather old method:

Take the loess as the model.

Find the materials and take them with a back basket. Fang Chang splits the bamboo into thin bamboo strips, crosses them into dense grids, and then wraps them up to weave a round sieve.

Pass the pile of loess excavated through this sieve carefully to filter out the gravel, sticks and other sundries, and the rest is fine loess as fine as sand.

In this day and age, that's probably a common practice.

Find a piece of wood and chop it into the shape of an axe, leave a hole in the handle of the axe, and beat it in the loess to make the loess firm. The next step is relatively simple. Dry the soil with fire to remove moisture to prevent air bubbles and holes, burn the wooden mold in it, and blow off the ashes.

Fire up the stove.

Several pieces of bronze were put into the pot and fired together in the furnace, and due to the low melting point of bronze, a pot of copper juice was quickly obtained.

Fang Chang reached into the furnace and picked up the jar.

The moisture on the skin was heated, evaporated instantly, and dried up with a prickling sound, but Fang Chang's skin was no different.

Pour the copper juice along the reserved pouring hole, and the air holes in the reserved piece play a role. Fang Chang took back the jar until the copper juice flowed out of the hole, and put it in the fire to keep warm.

One of the disadvantages of this kind of mold is that they are all disposable items. Once used, you need to smash a carefully crafted outer mold. Fortunately, Fang Chang never lacks time and energy.

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After casting those tools, after trimming, installing accessories, and polishing, they become objects that can be officially used.

The stone ax was thrown into the corner of the bamboo and wood hut, and was no longer cared for. A bronze ax with a wooden handle, polished and shining with metallic luster completely replaced its previous function and status.

Besides, Fang Chang simply made a cooking utensil.

Copper grill.

This is very simple, draw a groove on the ground, pour copper juice on it,

Finally, a web-shaped structure is produced, which can be easily installed in the firepit, and can effectively cook ingredients that need to be grilled by fire. It can bake a variety of foods at one time, which is efficient and convenient.

Since bronze requires a higher temperature and is not afraid of wood fire, the safety performance of this grill is very reliable.

Fang Chang used it that day. He put the barbecue grill in the firepit in the house, and used it to grill sliced ​​meat, ribs, vegetables, etc., and he was quite satisfied.

After he was full, he twisted the formula and fell asleep.

The next day, Fang Chang started to make Fang Ding molds.

In fact, at this time, the proportion of bronze ingredients has been adjusted to an appropriate level. The last furnace in a short time is also very good for casting swords, but Fang Chang is not prepared to do so—he is now more interested in tripods than in swords. Much bigger.

After all, swords cannot be eaten.

After trying a new saw and plane, and making small pieces of wood as templates, Fang Chang made an upside-down cast tripod mold in the field next to the new kiln. It has been baked to remove the moisture in the loess, leaving the pouring sprue riser, and the ventilation hole diversion groove, which is much more perfect than the previous one.

After using the last batch of charcoal in the charcoal pool, Fang Chang melted two more copper ingots for the final casting step in the plan.

This time the finished product is excellent.

After pulling the tripod out of the soil, Fang Chang held it and twirled it in his hand, looked it up and down, and was very satisfied with it.

In the sun, although the castings will be a little rough, the bronze still shows a bright color. The rectangular tripod body is equipped with four tripod legs. Although it is small in size, it is very dignified. Add a touch of art.

I flicked it with my fingers, and the sound was clear, which proved that there were no dark lines.

"It's done!"

He is very happy that he finally has a new version of the cooker.

Take it to the side of the stream beside the Xianqi cliff, and use stones to polish it briefly, revealing the golden color of the bronze.

If there is a newer generation of cooking tools and this small tripod is eliminated, you can consider building a stone platform and place the bronze tripod on it as a work of art.

Fang Chang was in front of the new kiln. After cleaning the place, he set up the Fang Ding and lit a fire underneath.

A tripod with feet is used as a cooking tool with its own support, which can save the feet, which is quite convenient in some cases.

He filled the tripod with water, brought it to a boil, and reconfirmed that the tripod was intact.

Then stewed a bamboo rat.

This bamboo rat was very lucky to be chosen by Fang Chang. It was very delicious as the pot for the tripod, which made Fang Chang feel good and confirmed again that this tripod has been made successfully.

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