The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 428 This ship is about to fall apart! Brother, save me!
Shen Le held his breath and stared at the wooden boat.

The pieced-together wooden boat was like a fish that was finally released from land back into the water; the entire boat was shaking slightly.

The talismans inside the ship's plank flickered on and off, and off and on again; the steering wheel rotated on its own without anyone moving it, and the rudder moved with a loud bang.

Shen Le jumped back with all his strength, finally jumping out of the attack range of the rudder. He watched as the huge rudder several meters long swung from left to right, and then from right to left:

Fortunately, my factory is big and wide enough!
If the ship was built a little shorter and narrower, this rudder would be able to knock down the factory building!

Just like that, the scaffolding that had been hit hard also started to rattle and vibrate continuously.

In other words, the scaffolding is not built on the ground, but the bamboo roots are deeply embedded in the ground, and the branches are tightly bundled together, so it does not fall down directly.

Even so, the rudder hit the scaffolding with full force, making dull sounds:
Boom!
Boom!
Boom! ! !
It seemed, as if, maybe, if it wasn't on the ground, if the sails were not raised, would the ship dare to run away?
Shen Le originally wanted to stand by and watch it toss around, and then it would probably be quiet after it was done.

However, the wooden boat was still alive and tormented, and with the rebound force of the scaffolding, it was hit harder and harder;

Not only was it whipping like crazy, it was also gradually starting to sway left and right, shaking constantly. The amplitude was getting bigger and bigger, and the distance the tip of the mast had passed was already visible to the naked eye, and the wooden boards were creaking:

"Just keep quiet!"

Shen Le was anxious. He ran and jumped to the third floor of the scaffolding, then jumped along the scaffolding to the deck, rushed to the bow, and struggled to hold the steering wheel:
"stop--"

Stop right there!

Don't bother!
There is no water here, you can't surf!

You haven't even filled the planks inside your boat yet, and now you're moving it back and forth, which is just dry grinding. Be careful not to shake yourself apart!

With a creaking sound, the steering wheel, the tiller, and the rudder all made an unpleasant sound of struggle at the same time. Shen Le broke out in a cold sweat and quickly let go:

He is now exerting his strength to the extreme, he doesn't know how much force he can exert, probably about three to five tons.

The problem is that just because it can exert three to five tons of force, it doesn't mean that the steering wheel and rudder can withstand three to five tons of force.

This is made of wood!
Made of wood!
If the force is too high, the wooden pole will break with a loud bang, and he will have to repair it...

The boat had not been completely repaired, and it had not yet developed intelligence, so it could not communicate and did not listen to him. Shen Le held the steering wheel tightly with both hands, closed his eyes and practiced internal energy, trying to input his internal energy into the wooden boat and forcibly control the talisman.

But inputting again and again, it seemed to have no use except making the wooden boat more excited and swaying more violently.

There was no other way, so Shen Le had to take out the copper sheet and slap it on the steering wheel:

"Quiet!"

The steering wheel trembled for a moment, then calmed down. Once it calmed down, the tiller and rudder below it all stopped moving.

Sad, I am still relying on the power of others to bully others. I cannot communicate with the object of restoration by my own ability, so I can only rely on the copper sheet...

Shen Le complained for a moment. He had to communicate completely with the object to be repaired, and indeed he had to repair it completely.

The problem now is that even though the planks have been put together, the boat's sturdiness is still a big problem. Shen Le sighed and began to direct the women: "Come on, let's take the boat apart again..."

【when!!!】

A bell rang in the shrine, deep and loud, but also urgent and anxious.

For example, the Thousand-armed Guanyin statue in the shrine is expressing dissatisfaction on behalf of the women in Luoqun:

What are you doing? What are you doing?

We worked so hard and put so much effort into putting it together!
Just at your command, we have to disassemble it again?
"...Be good, just take it apart. You guys are missing out on some work." Shen Le sighed and had to personally go down and pat the edge of the shrine to show his comfort:
"The planks are put together, but where are the nails? The nails haven't been driven in yet! If the nails aren't driven in, the whole boat won't be stable enough, it won't be strong enough, and it won't be able to withstand the wind and waves - let's start over!"

Let's start over. The women in skirts were dejected, using the bamboo scaffolding for support to dismantle the wooden components one by one.

Shen Le stared at them until they were dismantled, then looked at the nails left over from the initial ship dismantling process:
"It feels like... there's a lot less?"

According to the "Longjiang Shipyard Chronicles", a warship of 400 tons would require 1,820 kilograms of iron nails alone, in addition to 200 kilograms of wrought iron, probably for making iron hoops and other iron tools.

When Shen Le first dismantled the wooden boat, he found iron nails and other iron objects. He asked the women to pick them out and put them away one by one, and even put notes on them to indicate which one came from where.

There are several special large boxes used to store these ironware, which are sealed and filled with nitrogen to prevent further corrosion of the ironware.

However, Shen Le didn't even need to weigh or count them to estimate:
The ironware removed from here was far less than the weight of a ton, not even half a ton.

If it was half a ton, his boxes wouldn't be able to hold it all, and that shelf couldn't be used solely to store ironware; he would have to have several more shelves to store it!
Moreover, the rust he saw on the nail holes during the dismantling of the ship also told him an undeniable fact:

Before the ship became a spiritual weapon, or, before it transformed into a spiritual weapon and its spiritual power could protect itself, many of the nails had simply rusted away and disappeared...

“It’s a headache…”

Shen Le scratched his head. On Ming Dynasty warships, there were six or seven types of iron nails alone, at least tens of thousands of nails.

Shovel nails, square nails, date pit nails, climbing head nails, flat head nails, different nails have different nailing methods, different positions, and different densities.

It is written in the ancient shipping books that "one nail is used as the measure for one foot and four inches." Great, how much is one foot and four inches in ancient times equal to today?

In some places, mortise and tenon joints are used with nails. A mortise and tenon groove is pre-cut on the bulkhead, holes and seams are made on the outer plate, and nails are driven into the outer plate and fall into the mortise and tenon grooves.
Some places use vertical iron nail overlap method, some places use oblique iron nail flat connection method...

He had no way of dealing with the nails and nail holes he saw while dismantling the ship!
"Senior brother, save me!"

Shen Le decisively sent a message to his doctoral senior.

To fully recover, his own strength is not enough, he must rely on the wisdom of his predecessors!

Brother, you have been repairing the ship for so long and have almost restored the entire ship. Could you please give us more information?
Where are the nails on the hull of the ancient ship? How big, long and what shape of nails are needed? Which nails are nailed in from which position and how are they nailed in? Please send the information to me quickly!

(End of this chapter)