The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 97: The three little demons are quarreling - but the children will help! (Subscribe)
If this is an amateur, if he encounters a project that he cannot handle, he might just give up.

Fortunately, Shen Le had some connections, so he decisively opened his WeChat address book and found a senior sister who was admitted to the Palace Museum, and told her his doubts:
"Senior sister, could you please help me find some big boss to ask? Please~~~ (Holding fists) (Holding fists) (Bow) (Bow) (Kitten rolling on the ground)"

It was late at night, and he didn't expect his senior sister to reply quickly. However, his phone vibrated slightly, and his senior sister's message came back quickly:

"You don't even need to ask me, I can answer you - can't you put something underneath?"

OK... OK. That is, put a big blanket underneath - no, a blanket won't work, the surface of the blanket is too rough, and the patent leather will fall into the gap and can't be picked up.

Lay out lots of newspapers or a plastic sheet and carefully disassemble on top.

Then, pick up the broken pieces of paint one by one, soften them one by one, and stick them back...

Shen Le sighed deeply. It was over. This job suddenly had a huge increase in workload. It felt like it would take more than a year to finish!

Shen Le changed into work clothes, gloves, shoe covers, and a hair cover, making sure to prevent any debris from falling off his body.

Then, he laid a carpet on the open space in front of the workbench, and on top of the carpet, he laid a smooth, strong plastic film. Shen Le took a breath and called the puppet:
"Xiao Ling, come and help me move the cabinet up!"

【I'm coming too! 】

With a whoosh, the inkstone and the lead weight came out from the next room.

The puppet stretched out more than a dozen silk threads, which were entangled with the two legs on the right side of the doll cabinet and the stairs that turned back and forth on the right side of the cabinet;

The ink fountain stretched out a long ink line and wrapped it around the doll cabinet up and down, back and forth twice.

The two little guys exerted their strength together, and at the same time there was a buzzing sound. The lights in the room flickered together, and a silver-white ball of light floated in the air.

Before Shen Le could exert much force, he saw the doll cabinet gently and crookedly float up and move toward the plastic film...

Okay, okay, Xiao Youdeng, you also got involved and directly developed magnetic levitation, right?
Use electromagnetic force to influence those hardware so that they can float with the cabinets, right?
——No, wait a moment, the cabinet is about to fall over!

Shen Le instantly felt a sense of satisfaction that "raising a child is still useful". Little Modou worked diligently every day and never slacked off for a minute;
Little Oil Lamp, the kid who eats up his electricity bills every day, makes his light flicker, and only fights monsters at critical moments, will also help with the work!

He walked quickly forward, gently put his hands on the toy cabinet to straighten it, moved it to the center of the plastic film and put it down.

Take pictures, take pictures as much as you can, and make sure to take pictures of all the broken pieces of paint on the cabinet surface, one by one, so that it will be convenient to stick them back according to the shape later;

Then, pick up various tools and disassemble carefully:
First, the stairs on the right side of the doll cabinet. From top to bottom, from outside to inside, carefully unscrew the screws that can be tightened. If they feel a little rusty and can't be tightened, add a drop of lubricant and then tighten them;

If it is nailed with rivets, there is no other way. Use a grinder to grind the rivet head flat, and then use a hammer to knock it out from the other side.

If you use nails, you can only use pliers or nail pullers to pull them out of the wood...

Every time he twisted it, every time he knocked it, the cabinet vibrated violently, and a bunch of debris fell off. Shen Le's cheeks twitched, and he felt distressed:

"Take it easy...don't leave any scum, it will be very troublesome for me to post it later!"

The little Pinocchio stood by, and dozens of silk threads danced into a huge tentacle monster, connecting here and there, trying hard to press the debris back.

However, there were too many pieces of lacquer leather and she had too little silk thread, so she couldn't press it point by point. Later, she simply jumped onto the top of the cabinet, and the silk threads crisscrossed and "wove" a net on the surface of the cabinet;

The ink fountain waved its lead anxiously, and the ink line flew around the room. Shen Le had to stop it:
"Zheng Mo, go and do your thing! Don't throw the ink line around, or you might dirty the cabinet!"

The ink fountain dropped its lead weight sadly, and the eighteen-meter-long ink line shrunk and entangled itself around the reel, with the lead weight drooping limply on the ground.

After a while, he stretched out the lead weight, wrapped it around the hook reserved on the ceiling, and with a whoosh, he went back to work next door.

Only the small oil lamp was unwilling to give up. The silvery-white light ball moved up and down, constantly floating, and tried to stick to the cabinet several times, but was always waved away by Shen Le:

"Don't move! If the current explodes and connects to any metal parts, I'll be dead if I get shocked again!"

[No…]

The small oil lamp shook the ball of light aggrievedly. After a while, there was a crackling sound, and the ball of light exploded, scattering into tiny dots of electric light. Shen Le was shocked:
"what are you going to do?!"

Don't blow up the cabinet!

Then, he saw the scattered pieces of paint on the ground rising quietly.

They rise a little, fall a little, rise a little again, and fall a little again, as if an unskilled manipulator was making them rise.

Shen Le was stunned. He took two steps closer and tentatively stretched out a finger, and saw a small piece of paint moving slightly. There was obviously no adhesive, but it still stuck to his fingertips.

"...No, Little Oil Lamp, have you learned how to manipulate static electricity?!"

This is static electricity adsorption!
[Of course! It's not difficult! I just need to use a little bit of my strength, just a little bit of my strength! ]

The silver-white light ball was flying quickly, as if celebrating or showing off. Shen Le raised his lips, and touched the oil lamp from a distance of several meters:
"Well, you're awesome!"

The praised little oil lamp worked harder. Finally, the lacquerwares rose up one by one, like a group of small insects, circling twice in the air and flying towards the cabinet.

A little bit at a time, like a puzzle, I put it on the cabinet. After two times, there was not enough space, so I started over. After two more times, the shape was still wrong, so I started over again...

"No, wait, put them on the table first - I'll find you a piece of paper." Shen Le quickly instructed it.

Don't rush to stick on the pieces that have already fallen off. The key is to stick on the pieces that haven't fallen off yet. We have to grasp the main contradiction! He took a tray, spread a piece of white paper on it, and instructed the small oil lamp to place the paint on it - each piece fell directly on the paper, trying not to overlap each other.

Then, he returned to the front of the cabinet and instructed the small oil lamp:

"Come on, put your strength into the cracked, curled, and warped paint and the cabinet wood.

Just use a little force to make sure that even if the fragments fall off, they will not leave the cabinet and will not move!! "

【Leave it to me!!!】

The ball of silver-white light flashed confidently.

With this guarantee, Shen Le felt much more assured when doing his work. He unscrewed the screws one by one and untied the steel wires that were used to fix the stairs together.

Then unscrew the screws and remove the "elevator", leaving only the clock on the "ceiling" to run the "elevator";

Then, pull out the nails one by one and remove the pillars that are used to fix and support the "stairs":

"Xiao Ling! Please help me and fix the stairs. Don't let it fall down before I remove all the nails!"

【okay! 】

The puppet happily responded with a clear and crisp sound. Then, it ran from the left side of the cabinet to the right side and lay down, with thousands of threads hanging down leisurely.

It's nice to have someone to help you - whether that person is a human or not.

Shen Le sighed, and his hands moved more smoothly. Soon, he lifted up the entire staircase and took it down.

"Well, now it seems that there is not much that needs to be repaired in the cabinet itself." Shen Le walked around the empty toy cabinet with only the main body left, and nodded with satisfaction:

"There's a small crack on the left side; the top is a little crooked; there's a piece of hardware missing on the right side; the cabinet feet have signs of being bumped, probably from being soaked in water, and are a little rotten..."

Shen Le was sure that repairing the doll cabinet itself was relatively simple. He didn't need to disassemble it into parts, just adjust it.

Well, for example, cracks and top panels, these can be fixed with just wood glue -

Wait, where's my wood glue?

The fish bladder glue had spread out in the bowl, quietly solidified into a ball, and was completely unusable.

Besides, even if it hadn't cooled down, the remaining fish bladder glue wouldn't be enough to repair the cabinet...

Okay, place the order. There are still a lot of raw materials and tools to be ordered. We have to wait for them to arrive slowly...

Fortunately, for Shen Le, the time waiting for the raw materials and tools to arrive was not boring at all. Shen Le was busy running around:
Every piece of miniature furniture, every miniature utensil, every doll, and every piece of clothing on the doll must be photographed from multiple angles to leave a record.

Each material must be carefully observed, and research must be conducted on what material to use to repair it, how to repair it, and where to get similar materials.

For example, there are several miniature pieces of furniture that seem to be made of fir, and the fir he dragged back from the old house in the mountain village can be used?

When repairing cultural relics and old objects, if possible use old wood instead of new wood, and if possible use old hardware instead of new hardware.

The main consideration for hardware is texture. The mottled marks left by hundreds of years of wind and frost cannot be perfectly replicated by any modern aging methods. It can naturally blend in with old objects.
When it comes to old wood, the main consideration is not the appearance, but the material.

Like the wood used in the cultural relics, it has also experienced years of wind and rain, and years of deformation due to thermal expansion and contraction. Its internal stress has been released to the extreme, and its expansion coefficient is almost completely consistent with that of the cultural relics.

At this time, after it is trimmed into shape and inlaid into the cultural relic to be restored, it can be perfectly combined with the original material of the old object.

If they want to expand, they expand together, and if they want to shrink, they shrink together. If both sides move in unison, there won't be a sudden gap in the middle...

In addition, Shen Le also had to consider how to put the paint back on. To be honest, they were restoration workers for ancient buildings and were not very good at such delicate work:

A pillar is three or four meters high, and a hall has 17 or 18 pillars. If the paint on each pillar is lifted up, do we have to stick it back on piece by piece?!
Then they should just stop doing anything else and just be busy applying the paint!

That's a delicate job!
It is said that several seniors from previous classes went to Shanxi to do their research projects, and they were working on the same site as another research group that was doing the restoration of the Dazu Rock Carvings.

Then, within that research group, there was a small group that was working on the rescue and protection project for the Thousand-Armed Guanyin statue.

My goodness, just to figure out how to stick the gold foil on the statue, it took me five years, from the first test in 08 to the third test in 13, when I felt it was almost usable.

As for posting it according to the established plan after all the trouble, that will be another long journey.

Basically, from the preliminary work before the main body test to the completion of the restoration, it can outlast N generations of graduate students.

Or, an undergraduate student can just about complete it after going through the process of getting into college and graduating with a doctorate.

It is understandable to repair a particularly valuable statue in this way. However, if the entire building is repaired in this way, no one should do it!!!
So... I really don't know how to apply the paint... Can I ask someone who knows how to apply it to help me...

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