The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 342: Alloy Boss's new dining habits! Is the Special Affairs Bureau going to cry?
Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The Alloy Boss plunged into the yard, hammering non-stop.

In other words, Shen Le's house is large enough, with his own residences on the west and south, a well-soundproof laboratory on the east, and a road on the north, so there are no complaints about noise nuisance.

Even so, the big camphor tree A-Lu still expressed displeasure:
[He's too noisy! When will it be resolved? I'm almost unable to bear fruit because of all the noise! ]

...No, A'lu, as a camphor tree that has become a monster, is it so important whether we bear fruit or not?

Despite this, Shen Le had no choice but to appease the big camphor tree and promised to temporarily install sound insulation panels around the Alloy Boss's yard to reduce noise.

By the way, let’s go see how Alloy Boss is doing. Should we just leave it at that?
Anyway, well, the gold foil he ordered will arrive soon. Maybe the alloy boss hasn't finished it yet when the gold foil arrives?
"no way!"

The Alloy Boss raised his arm which had turned into a rectangular hammer head, sat on the ground with his legs apart, and kept hammering.

His left leg was bent to support his upper body, and his right leg had turned into a rectangular anvil. The gold piece waiting to be hammered was placed upright on the anvil and moved back and forth constantly.

There is also a tablet in front of him, on which a video of hammering gold foil from the Internet is played in a loop, with steps, explanations, and commands.

The Alloy Master hits once, looks up at the video, hits a few more times, looks up again, and keeps adjusting his landing point and force...

No matter how you adjust it, it's fierce!

The fist as big as a sand bowl, when clenched into a square, was more than twice as big as the eight-jin golden hammer in the video!
With one punch, the gold foil was completely covered, and it didn't seem like there was any need to adjust it! Shen Le was terrified by the hammering:
"Old Jin, please hold back a little! Don't break his legs!"

Look at the length of your anvil. The position of your gold piece is right on your knee! This is the most vulnerable place! Don't gamble and end up breaking your knee. It's not worth it!

"Don't worry, it's okay!" The Alloy Boss waved his hand nonchalantly... Oh, he waved the big square hammer. He paused, then hammered down several times in a row:
"I know my own body very well! After it's transformed into this, it's not afraid of being hit. It looks like a leg, but it's actually an iron pillar!"

Well, just be sure of yourself...

Shen Le returned to the studio dejectedly and continued to study papers, videos and literature.

A few days passed in a flash, and just when Lao You called to say that the customized gold foil would be delivered tomorrow, a thunderous laugh burst in from the window:
“Haha! Hahahaha! I got it done! I said I can’t be worse than humans—Shen Le! Look!”

The Alloy Boss came in with his head held high, holding a paper bag half a foot high, showing off his power.

With that kind of momentum, the huge studio could hardly contain him. Even if the height of the door frame was more than two meters, his 1.9-meter height could still hit his head directly.

"nailed it?"

"Of course!"

Alloy Boss's chin was about to hit the ceiling. He raised his hand and threw the paper bag in front of Shen Le:
"Look! Look at the gold foil I made! It's much better than the ones you bought!"

Shen Le carefully opened the paper package. Under the first layer of white paper was a flexible black thin paper, holding up the gold foil that was as thin as a cicada's wing and as soft as satin.

After beating the gold foil for a long time, it is absolutely impossible to hit the gold foil directly with a hammer. You have to put the gold foil between paper and hit it through the paper.

Otherwise, the soft gold foil would be smashed and stuck together, and all the previous work would be wasted...

Even the thin paper is not something you can just find randomly. It's not like you can just get a stack of A4 paper and then put the gold foil in it to print.

This black paper, called Wujin Paper, also has a special formula and a special process.

Even after sandwiching the gold foil between the paper and arranging them one by one, the paper must be dried carefully to remove all the moisture in the paper, so that the gold foil will not stick to the paper easily when it is beaten, and the ductility will be better...

Of course, the black gold paper is purchased from the company that sells gold foil, but there are other tricks as to how to dry it and how dry it should be.

Shen Le watched the alloy master frantically lighting the black gold paper twice. In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore and solemnly introduced the drying box method.

The alloy master went back and forth and adjusted it seven or eight times before finding the right parameters. The trouble was simply indescribable. Anyway, it was finally done?
He picked up a piece of black gold paper, and then he picked up the gold foil and stuck it on the black gold paper.

Well, it looked really good, softer and thinner, it seemed even better than the gold foil he peeled off the Buddha statue.

In terms of ductility, this gold foil looks square and neat, reaching a size of 10*10 cm, which is visibly improved compared to the 9.3*9.3 of the gold foil company.

"It looks pretty good!" He tilted his head in surprise and gave Alloy Boss a thumbs up:

"It's amazing! I've only been using it for a few days and I've already achieved this level!"

"Of course! Controlling metal is my instinct!" The Alloy Boss's chest was about to flip over, and every hair on his face was golden, radiating the word "pride".

Shen Le patted him hard, then moved the gold foil to the side of the instrument to examine it carefully:
The naked eye is the naked eye, without the use of instruments, he still has concerns about the flatness of the gold foil...

After a round of random checks, it was found that the gold foil made by the alloy master was indeed better than that of goldsmiths.

Shen Le tried his best to cast a bunch of cleaning spells to remove the alien smell on the gold foil, and smiled at him:
"You're awesome! Well, let's agree that if you get one ounce of gold, I'll pay you one ounce of gold. - Do you want gold bars or gold foil? If you want gold foil, when the company's gold foil arrives, I'll give it to you directly."

In an instant, an expression of entanglement, distortion, and struggle emerged on the fat face of the Alloy Boss.

Obviously, gold bars are good, and gold foil is also good. As long as it is not the gold foil you have worked so hard to make, eating it as a snack is very flavorful...

"Gold foil!" He finally made up his mind:

"I want to wrap silver bars, alloy steel or something with gold foil and eat it as a snack! It will definitely be unique!"

Shen Le: “…”

I hope you don’t develop this dining habit…

Otherwise, those craftsmen who hammered out gold foil with thousands of hammers a day would probably cry...

Even if you can use a machine to hammer, many tasks, such as clamping the gold sheet into the black gold paper, and adjusting the hammer's landing point, still require manpower to do, which cannot be saved...

Also, if the Alloy Boss later requests that all alloy bars supplied to him by the Special Affairs Bureau be pre-wrapped in gold foil, wouldn't the Special Affairs Bureau cry loudly?
Fortunately, no matter what, that was a problem that others needed to worry about. Shen Le's current task was to deal with this Buddha statue:

The ground layer and leveling have been completed. The next step is to apply gold glue paint to prepare for the gold foil...

"Wait, aren't you going to apply gold glue paint? If you're not mixing the paint, what are you doing?"

The Alloy Boss was waiting eagerly by the side, just waiting for Shen Le to stick gold foil on the Buddha statue so that he could show off his skills.

Hey, do you want to cut these gold foils?

Want to move?

Want to flatten it?

The gold foil must be controlled in every process. Gold foil so thin and soft can be broken if you use a little more force. How much effort do you need to put in to handle it?

You still have to come and ask me for help!

Unexpectedly, Shen Le did not mess with the gold foil or even the gold glue and paint. Instead, he turned around and took out a small box from the cabinet next to the studio.

Inside the box, there were pieces and fragments of cracked, warped, and falling translucent dark gold fragments...

Then, he carried the box to the pot, added water, and covered the pot...

Put it in the pot and steam it!
"What are you doing? Are you making me something to eat?" The Alloy Boss approached the steamer, twitched his nose, and sniffed hard:

"There is indeed some mercury in it...but I don't like eating mercury! If you have time to steam this, why not give me some gold and silver!"

"Oh, I'm steaming the gold glue paint." Shen Le calmly pushed his big face away:

Much of the gold glue and paint peeled off from Buddha statues is still usable and can be re-pasted once it has softened.

To restore the old to its original state, use the original materials if possible and use as little new materials as possible.

More importantly, these gold glues and paints are also stained with the aura of the Buddha statue, which is very beneficial to its spirituality... Using the original materials is very effective in repairing spiritual items!

According to the method in the paper, he first steamed it, using the steam to soften it, so that water molecules could penetrate into the gold colloid layer and form intramolecular hydrogen bonds with the hydroxyl groups in the phenolic hydroxyl groups in the gold colloid layer;
Then use a mixture of ethanol, butanol and water to further soften the gold glue layer. After softening, the originally dry and hard gold glue layer is completely soft again, and can even be held with tweezers and folded freely:
"Alright! Done! Start sticking it up!"

Shen Le jumped up. His current job was to mix the lacquer and stick the gold glue on the Buddha statue.

"…So this is an extreme puzzle? So many broken layers of gold glue need to be evenly pasted onto the Buddha statue piece by piece, no more, no less, and no overlapping?"

Shen Le was in a state of confusion. There were quite a lot of broken and peeled gold foil, but not many gold glue layers had peeled off or disappeared.

If there is any mistake in the puzzle process, the gold glue layers will accumulate on the surface of the Buddha statue, forming ugly wrinkles...

[It's okay, I'll help you! ]

【I'm coming too! 】

【I come! 】

Xiao Ling and Qing Deng were eager to try. Lan Zhuang said nothing, but cast large swaths of light and shadow, outlining a fine grid on the Buddha statue:
Different sizes and shapes. If you look closely, each grid is somewhat similar to the gold glue fragments, and is also marked with different colors...

"Lan Zhuang, you are amazing! Your level is simply amazing!"

(End of this chapter)