Chapter 80 Thirty-two Pound Caron Cannon

However, the amount and difficulty of such a deep modification are far beyond the previous simple modification. Some ships have to be docked or put on the platform to be modified, which has to occupy the limited docks and platforms of the Sea Wolf House, so that the speed of such modification is very slow now.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian intends to stop the construction of flying fast ships on Nanri Island while expanding the output of freshwater boats. He intends to do two things together, shipbuilding, modification and modification to improve the renewal rate of the sea wolf fleet.

Although there was a serious accident when the ship was launched today, except for one death and one injury, the ship itself was not damaged, which is also unfortunate. Yu Xiaotian has seen the situation of two new ships launched and the standardized production sheds that have begun to be piloted in the boathouse. After that, the mood turned cloudy and sunny, and became much better.

Another thing he is happy about is the problem of wood drying, which has been basically solved in the past few days. After the transformation of the craftsmen, the drying room has adjusted the way the wood is placed, which improves the ventilation rate between the wood, making the wood dried in the drying room much better.

Two days ago, when the drying room opened and discharging materials, after Guo Fu's inspection, about 60% of the wood in the wood entering the drying room this time is better and can be used for shipbuilding. The remaining 20% are scrapped, and 20% of them are not dry enough and need to be dried. The overall yield is higher than that of the first drying wood. At that time, it has to be improved a lot.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the ship's house to continue to build a large-scale drying house nearby, cross over the drying room belonging to the original boathouse, and set up a separate wood drying factory, which is responsible for handling the felled wood. In addition to providing the boathouse for use, it can also be supplied to construction and wood workshops for use. At the same time as improving production efficiency as much as possible, the craftsmen of the shipyard are also liberated and devote themselves to shipbuilding production.

In addition, the wood drying factory will also take over the work of decommissioning materials, because decommissioning is a rough job in carpentry. There is no need to occupy carpenters or other craftsmen. As long as you have the strength to pull a saw, even hard labor can do it, and there is no need to waste talents.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian also considered it and ordered several small-scale charcoal kilns in this area to be merged into the wood drying plant in the future, which will be managed by a special person and responsible for manufacturing charcoal.

In fact, charcoal is a dry distillation process. In the past, charcoal was fired in a simple way. Not to mention the waste of pollution, the quality of charcoal is not good enough, and charcoal is still an important industrial fuel for sea wolves. In addition, it is also the basic raw material for gunpowder, especially charcoal used to make gunpowder, for charcoal The quality requirements are quite high.

The firing method of the small charcoal kiln used before obviously can't meet the needs of sea wolves, so it is better to build several large wood dry distillation kilns to let special personnel be responsible for distilling wood to obtain charcoal, so that the quality of charcoal produced in batches is far better than the scattered small as before. The quality of charcoal produced in the workshop.

In addition, wood tar can also be obtained when distilled charcoal. The composition of wood tar is very complex and can be used as a simple pesticide. In addition, it can be used as wood anti-corrosion. It can be used in boat houses and many places. As for other uses that require deep processing, he can't do it for the time being.

Overall, Yu Xiaotian's plan is to refine the industry in his jurisdiction as much as possible in the future. Instead of building a workshop as before, it is necessary to complete all kinds of craftsmen, large, small and complete, but to hand over some of the general processes as much as possible to a specialist. The industry's workshop comes for production, and other workshops no longer produce these general parts or accessories by themselves, but customize them directly from special workshops and then use them for production.

This seems troublesome, but it can greatly improve production efficiency, form intensive production, and reduce waste.

Since the flying-shaped fastship that tested the Kalong gun on the other side of the ship has been launched, it is about to start the trial. According to previous experience, this kind of ship will be relatively simple and the time is very short when the structure of the ship has not been significantly changed and the linear shape has not been significantly modified again.

After being launched, you only need to check the water leakage of the hull plate and test the stability of the ship's center of gravity and the flexibility and robustness of the rudder mechanism, and it can basically be delivered for use.

However, the gun rack prepared on the second ship that can rotate 360 degrees is specially designed for the newly trial large-caliber Caron gun. Now the gun rack is in place, and only the Caron gun is in place, so Yu Xiaotian is eager to obtain this new type of cannon to test its effectiveness and Power.

People who play Western model ships generally need to have a detailed understanding of the situation of ships, so Yu Xiaotian is no exception. He has consulted quite a lot of artillery equipment of Western sail warships and how they are installed.

Therefore, the Karon cannon is one of his choices. Once it is powerful, it will become his main weapon in the future.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived at the cannon, there was still a row of hot production scenes in the cannon, and a new cannon was being cast for various tests.

At present, there is no metal flaw detector to check the quality of the gun. First, it relies on visual inspection to check whether there are cracks in the gun body, but by tapping to determine whether there are large pores in the gun body. Third, it adopts the irrigation inspection method to erect the barrel, plug the fire gate, and then pours water into the gun barrel, which can also be filled. Oil is used to observe whether there are subtle cracks in the barrel wall. After these tests, we can basically judge whether the gun has quality problems.

However, this inspection is not the end. Before the cannon is put into storage, it must be pulled to the shooting range for a test, fill it with the largest amount of gunpowder required by the specification, conduct more than two test shots, and then check the gun body. If no problem is found, the gun can be regarded as serious. Qualified can be regarded as a formal finished product warehousing and waiting to be transferred to other places for use.

When Yu Xiaotian entered the cannon, Qiu blacksmith quickly came out when he heard the news. He knew what Yu Xiaotian wanted to see this time, so he quickly took Xiaotian to a large workshop.

This shed is used to test produce new cannons. It is arranged by the elite soldiers and strong generals in the cannon. The shed is also hot and the temperature is very high, but because there is a certain risk of splash injury in it, so the craftsmen can't wear thin clothes. They all wear thick clothes and have to cover them in front of them. A thick canvas apron with thick gloves.

Unfortunately, asbestos cloth can only be used now. Thick canvas can only be used for craftsmen. Craftsmen are very likely to be burned. Fortunately, sea wolves pay more attention to the welfare of craftsmen. Once they are injured, they can also get good treatment, such as cannons and shooting. In the blacksmith's shop, some braised oil and some burn ointment have been prepared, and minor burns can be treated on the spot.

And the craftsmen are treated very well. In order to cool them down, someone provides them with mung bean soup every day to drink to prevent them from heatstroke. In addition, they are specially prepared for them to cool down and prevent heatstroke. They can even get two bowls of ice cubes every day. Ice water cools them down.

So in the workshop of the sea wolf, although the work is hard, these craftsmen are still very satisfied with the current treatment. They pay a lot of money and treat them as people. Even if the work is a little tiring and hard, they are willing to do it.

Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry to enter the workshop to watch the trial production of the new cannon, but first inspected the measures to prevent heatstroke and cool down here. When he saw that the arrangement here was still in place, he nodded to express his satisfaction. As Qiu Blacksmith entered the shed.

On a shelf in the shed, Yu Xiaotian immediately saw a short and thick cannon, which was mounted on the bench. A craftsman was finally polishing the surface of the gun body to remove a small amount of burrs and rough areas left during casting, so that users will not be scratched when maintaining and wiping in the future. The injury is also easier to clean up.

The trial production of a new cannon is not as simple as opening the mold. In addition to making an iron model, if the caliber is not different from the previous artillery, it is simpler. However, if a new caliber cannon is opened, in addition to making an iron model, it is also necessary to make new balers and balers to After the casting of the cannon is completed, the interior of the cannon is ready to be ignified.

So this process cannot be completed overnight. Even after the iron model casting is completed, it is necessary to test the iron model and use the iron model to make a mud mold first to see if the iron model is deformed after it is made.

Only after all kinds of inspections are completed will the craftsmen officially begin to close the iron model and go to the casting platform to start casting new cannons.

It has been more than half a month since Yu Xiaotian came to Danshui Village this time. Qiu Blacksmith knew that Yu Xiaotian was eager for this new cannon, so he did not dare to neglect it at all. The craftsmen with the cannons also rushed to work day and night, and several melting iron furnaces were almost never extinguished.

Finally, a few days ago, the first 32-pound Caron cannon was successfully cast with the efforts of Qiu Blacksmith, and it has passed the preliminary inspection of the ironwork without finding any quality problems. Now it is now undergoing the final surface polishing.

Yu Xiaotian rushed straight to the Karon gun. This Karon gun is no different from the Karon gun in his impression. The barrel is short and thick, and the length is about the 12-pound short gun, that is, that is, the mountain howitzer, but it is much thicker than that guy. From the muzzle to the end of the gun, it is gradually cone-shaped, and the tail is thick, but the muzzle position is In order to prevent the muzzle from collapsing too much, the muzzle part has been thickened.