More than a thousand dwarf craftsmen took half a year to carefully polish parts to create the first simple hydraulic milling machine; it took Donner to operate this simple milling machine to create a more complex and reasonable mass-produced hydraulic milling machine, but it took less than a month. The difference in efficiency almost made nearly two thousand dwarf craftsmen in the Mist City begin to doubt their lives.
But in Donner’s view, he just did a little work – just like the earliest industrial germination on earth, he used hydraulic power.
However, the development of mechanical civilization on this planet has always been restricted by energy scarcity. The dwarfs who advocate the beauty of machinery are trapped in the extreme north country, and there is no such condition as Mist City that has sufficient hydraulic resources available.
Therefore, the hydraulic machinery that appeared in Wucheng was like opening a small gap in the long dike, which would inevitably trigger an unstoppable mechanical torrent.
When the prototype milling machine with great hard work was removed, forty hydraulic machine tools of various types had gathered on the streets of the 35th to the 39th floors of Wucheng, a total of five floors.
Because there is no power, even the simplest automatic control cannot be achieved. The workpiece or the cutting head is fully operated by manpower. Therefore, when each lathe is started, six dwarf craftsmen need to work together, plus two dwarf soldiers act as laborers and carry the workpieces.
In this way, with the two shifts set by Donner, one shift maintenance (because of the large water vapor, maintenance is particularly important), a total of nearly 500 workers were installed forty machine tools.
Throughout the first half of the year, Donald used intelligent brain assistance to draw more than a dozen sets of fully mechanical hydraulic machine tools with different functions, trained hundreds of qualified dwarf workers, formulated a complete set of safety operation manuals, and formed a research team composed of six master dwarf craftsmen to create an epoch-making spiral micrometer.
On May 20 of this year, the second Engineering and Technology Progress Award (i.e. the Tom Award) was awarded to these six masters of craftsmen.
In the last ten days of May, nearly a thousand dwarf craftsmen who were not selected to operate the machine tools were arranged on five machining workshops (a new word invented by Donner, each workshop represents a street in the factory).
More than 800 dwarf soldiers who came to Mist City with the dwarf craftsmen took on the job of temporary porters.
On June 1st, the Wucheng Factory was officially unveiled and immediately transformed into a giant beast that uses metal materials.
On June 21, three finalized clockwork batteries were assembled in the 41st workshop of Wucheng (at this time, there were only 11 workshops in Wucheng at the age of Wucheng, and the number forty-one was only used in Wucheng’s original street number).
From the outside, these three batteries are all simple rectangular. The largest one is one meter two long, seventy centimeters wide, thirty-two centimeters high, and weightFor nearly one ton, only dwarf warriors above level five can lift it up alone; the other two shapes are the same as it, and their volume drops step by step, weighing 400 kilograms and 160 kilograms respectively.
The three types of clockwork batteries are named Santan type, Pamplo type and Ovier type (that is, the names of the three northern provinces with areas ranging from large to small).
Each winding battery consists of hundreds of groups including a chain, but except for the output shaft and a twelve-stage manual gear shifter exposed, the remaining metal components are all packaged. There is animal grease inside the entire package to lubricate and rust. During maintenance, just loosen one side and replace the grease – it’s a bit like changing the oil for a car engine.
On July 9, the first hydraulic spring machine in Wucheng was assembled.
Then, the first batch of Santan-type clockwork batteries charged through the spring machine were successively installed into the remodeled shaft elevator.
In just three months, Wucheng popularized clockwork elevators, and the raw material throughput capacity increased significantly. The commercial function that had been suspended for more than two years was officially restarted.