Reborn Craftsman

Chapter 148 Tung Oil [Please subscribe to the third update]

The reason why the bamboo building is called "bamboo building" is because it is a two-story building. If there is no second floor, it can only be called a bamboo house.

Compared with bamboo houses, bamboo houses are much more complicated.

The most important point is that there are more stairs.

Don't underestimate the stairs, dozens of villagers in Dongyu Village present, none of them can understand the principle of it, Liu Xing has no choice but to weave and make it by himself using old Nanzhu.

Weaving stairs is a technical job. If you don't have a certain level, you don't even think about "making the score".

But for Liu Xing, he could do it with his eyes closed. After all, before he was reborn, he did not know how many stairs he made with Nanzhu in the coastal area.

As for the other work, the prototype of the bamboo building has been made now. I believe it should not be difficult to make it according to the pattern. After all, there are several bamboo craftsmen present. As long as you teach a little, you will learn it quickly.

But this time the advantage of having a large number of people and strength was shown. Under the leadership of the old man Hei, those carpenters installed the finished doors and windows in the rudimentary bamboo frame without Liu Xing's instructions, and some carpenters even made them. The window leaves and door leaves, the enthusiasm of the people, made the passing villagers look sideways.

The progress of the bamboo craftsman did not slow down much under the command of the lean middle-aged man.

When Liu Xing made the stairs, he asked people to weave the 'strip wall' and install it in the empty space of the 'framework' of the bamboo building. Although this job is simple, the workload is very heavy. It simply cannot be finished in a short time.

As time went by, it soon reached more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

The entire building of the bamboo building is short of "covering" and laying the floor of the second floor.

According to old man Hei, Dongyu Village has a lot of cedar trees, and they are still a burden if they are piled up on the grain drying field at the gate of the bamboo building of the village committee, so they might as well use them to pave the second floor.

Liu Xing disagreed with this, because although the material of Chinese fir is not easy to deform, it is a good material for making floors, but the characteristic of bamboo buildings is light weight. If the floors are made of Chinese fir, the overall tolerance will be greatly affected pressure.

That is to say, using Nanzhu as the bedding is the best choice. As long as you follow what he said, it will definitely be much better than Chinese fir.

The old man Hei couldn't resist Liu Xing, so he had to compromise at the moment, and saw Nanzhu with the lean middle-aged man as the floor of the second floor.

There is a lot of care in the paving of the floor, Liu Xing didn't hide it, and told everything in front of the black old man and the thin middle-aged man until the two villagers understood.

The thin, middle-aged man was even more amazed when he sighed. For him, he didn't know that there are so many exquisite and practical skills in laying a floor. If Liu Xing had come to Dongyu Village a few years earlier, he might His current skills will not be half-baked.

The old man Hei also admired Liu Xing very much. He glanced at the roof of the bamboo building: "I thought it would take several days to build this bamboo building! Now it seems that one day is enough time, but the roof must be built quickly, otherwise it will go down." It's troublesome when it rains."

"Didn't the cow felt come here?" Liu Xing smiled when he heard the words: "You have a lot of bamboo in Dongyu Village, don't use straw to build the roof, use bamboo to cover it, that's right! Have you brought the tung oil? Yes! You can arrange for those who are free to brush."

Tung oil is an excellent drying vegetable oil, which has the characteristics of fast drying, light specific gravity, good gloss, strong adhesion, heat resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, anti-corrosion, anti-rust, non-conductive, etc., and has a wide range of uses.

It is the main raw material for the manufacture of paints and inks. It is widely used as waterproof, anti-corrosion, and anti-rust coatings for construction, machinery, weapons, vehicles, fishing gear, and electrical appliances. Insecticides, etc.

Dongyu Village is so poor, it would be impossible to go to the town to buy varnish to paint the whole bamboo building.

Tung oil is an industrial vegetable oil made by mechanically or manually pressing the picked tung tree fruit, and Dongyu Village should have a lot of it.

As for the tung tree, it is a perennial woody tree that grows in mountainous areas far from cities.The ability to resist diseases and insect pests is extremely strong, and there is no need to apply fertilizers and pesticides during the entire growth process.

Tung oil is a kind of natural vegetable oil, which has the characteristics of rapid drying, high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance.Tung oil also has good water resistance and is widely used in construction, paint, printing (ink), agricultural machinery, electronic industry, etc.

Of course, in the countryside in 1993, tung oil was worthless, and most of the squeezed oil was used to paint wooden products. Hei old man heard Liu Xing’s question, and immediately replied: “The black dog of tung oil went back to get it. What about the big barrel! I wanted to sell it for some money to buy new clothes for my daughter-in-law, but who knows that no one wants it after three years at home.”

"Really?" Liu Xing was stunned and didn't say anything more, but picked up the saw and tape measure, climbed up to the roof of the bamboo building and got busy.

Today, the roof of the bamboo building must be completed before dark. As for the rest, it can be postponed until tomorrow. After all, if he doesn’t demonstrate the skill of laying bamboo on the roof of the bamboo building, no one present will know how to do it. .

The old man Hei climbed up and helped Liu Xing calculate the waterway.

Waterway, that is, the slope height of the roof running water.

Don't underestimate this waterway, if the bamboo building is too low, it will leak.

If it is too high, it will be very dangerous to repair the roof in the future.

So it is necessary to calculate the most appropriate size.

The old man Hei is an old carpenter, he can calculate the waterway.

But he didn't show off in front of Liu Xing, after all he knew that Liu Xing was not an ordinary person.

After seeing that the waterway calculated by Liu Xing was no different from his own, he called two apprentices to come up and start laying out the pieces of south bamboo strips that had been opened.

Liu Xing was not idle, but asked the lean middle-aged man on the ground to pick out old bamboo with a diameter of about 120, split it in half and make it into a "general's tenon" and hand it over.

General tenon, a common name for bamboo tiles in the coastal area.

The craftsmanship is not difficult, but the mortise is extremely difficult to be symmetrical.

Because the mortise is interlocking, it can not only prevent rain leakage, but also prevent loosening and falling.

After the thin middle-aged man failed to make several with a saw and chisel, he had to laugh and ask Liu Xing to come down and demonstrate.

There is no way, his technique is only so good, even if he wants to be high-profile.

Liu Xing shook his head, had no choice but to go down the bamboo building and patiently taught the thin middle-aged man to make general tenons, and made a few with a saw himself.

After the lean middle-aged man realized it, he was full of admiration. It turned out that the technique was wrong, not his IQ problem.

The bamboo tiles on the roof of the bamboo building need a total of 780 pieces.

This is a big project. After checking the time, the lean middle-aged man called nearly twenty villagers from Dongyu Village to participate in the production.

(End of this chapter)