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Chapter 61 Making a Balance (2)

Wu Zong's footsteps came in a hurry, and he didn't notice his beautiful beard flung outside.

He was almost 40 years old, and he could no longer be an astro-manager, maybe never be an astro-manager for the rest of his life.To say that the fourth-level star warlock came to Shaonan this time, he must be the happiest person, and he will not let go of any calls about the star warlock.

Wu Zong came with his two young apprentices. It is said that Wu Zong's strength is not enough to accept apprentices, but there is such a shortage of star warlocks. Most people focus on improving and researching. Teaching apprentices, the association will not take it seriously.

Seeing someone coming, Lu Xu raised his eyelids and remained lying down.His politeness index is basically below the negative number, which is worse than that of a knight with status.

Cheng Jinzhou stood up and greeted him at the gate of the courtyard. He lowered his voice and laughed, "Warlock Liu Kuangxing and the others are studying their own stuff. I invited you here to make something."

Wu Zong agreed again and again, peeking at the whiteboard where Liu Kuang and others were working, his heart was overflowing with satisfaction.Just like the scientists of later generations, for the insiders, the research results of each other are open, but facing the outsiders, they will be somewhat self-conscious.To put it bluntly, a star warlock apprentice is not a star warlock, and his status is similar to that of a graduate student. A graduate student like Wu Zong without a mentor is a miserable word.

On the edge of the cleared table, there are various parts neatly placed, such as straight wood, pointers, weights, etc., which can be used directly, but the dial base tray, etc. need to be modified again. Cheng Jinzhou looks forward to it. He looked at Wu Zong and said, "Can you make a scale?"

"A little bit." Wu Zong blinked his eyes, the education he received as an astrologist can only be said to be reluctant.

"I'm sorry to trouble you. We need to deal with the materials. We'll make a few balances with higher precision." Cheng Jinzhou said, took a piece of white paper, and wrote the balance formula with a quill pen dipped in ink. From the point of view of Pai, it is hard to imagine him as a 13-year-old boy, but everyone present has long been accustomed to his performance and only regards him as a precocious genius.

When Wu Zong saw the scale in Jinzhou, he said a little unconfidently: "The best balance I have ever made, the accuracy is 0.5."

Although both 0.5 and 0.1 are one decimal place, the difference is far from being as simple as 0.4, and the difficulty is naturally multiplied.

"Make it first and then look at it. If it can achieve an accuracy of 0.1, you can also take one back and use it." Cheng Jinzhou has always been very skilled in generosity to others.

A balance with a precision of 0.1 is not worth much to a star warlock of Wu Zong's status, but if he can make one himself, the meaning will naturally be different. Wu Zong nodded repeatedly, reached out and picked up the straight wood to prepare .

Cheng Jinzhou did not intend to interfere with the first balance, Wu Zong made it first and then looked at it.The difference in the star array makes each astromancer do things differently. The reason why it is difficult to make a satisfactory accuracy of the physical balance is largely related to the changeable star array-on the one hand, the star array speeds up the item The speed of production reduces the difficulty, but on the other hand, it makes the process design more complicated, and it is difficult for any design to adapt to such a complicated star array. The final result still requires astrologists to adjust and experiment by themselves.On the contrary, when ordinary people make items, because they can continuously improve the craftsmanship on the original basis, the products of the outstanding ones are already comparable to those of star warlocks.

The advantages of Star Warlocks in item production are mainly reflected in their knowledge and culture.Few excellent craftsmen have received a complete cultural education, especially the science of mathematics. Therefore, in most cases, the craftsmen who make Star Warlock items still know what they are. It is where the Star Warlocks developed and grew, and it is also a very interesting place.

Two apprentices of star warlock apprentices served Wu Zong. They were all sixteen or seventeen years old, but they didn't have the annoying appearance of young people in later generations. Their faces were full of seriousness and care. Even when they were delivering tools, they were extremely devout.

People's worship of astrology and yearning for astrology were unintentionally revealed in the two teenagers.

Wu Zong used a carving knife to gently carve the straight wood. First, he had to ensure that the weight (mass) on both sides was the same. If the scale required was very low, this would be enough.However, if you want to improve its accuracy, the most ideal situation is to make the mass of any two points of the straight wood the same. To achieve this, it is almost impossible without a star array.

In addition, the problem of installing screws in the center and on both sides must also be considered. Similar to the positioning tools of later generations, before adding screws, you must first carve lines in the straight wood. It is conceivable that the balance of the straight wood is very difficult during this process may be lost.The weight of the screws will not be exactly the same. A good star warlock will take all kinds of factors into consideration. In a perfect situation, they can even improve the accuracy. Those famous star warlock item creators have suitable star warlocks. Array.

After seeing Xiang Xin making star arrays, Wu Zong's method is a bit horrible.Although his method is the same as that of Xiang Xin's day, and it is a popular standard method among astrologists, Xiang Xin at least has a star array to use, and can balance the two ends of a straight wood with one calcination, but Wu Zong's method is no different from that of ordinary craftsmen. The difference - in terms of the ability to use knives, he is not as good as the latter's practice makes perfect.

On the other side of the table, two apprentices quickly joined in the process of making the tray.The tray is to pour a rubber-like substance on the wooden mold and wait for it to cool.The production of the mold is a little troublesome, and the errors caused by different sizes or different centers of gravity will eventually accumulate. As for the deployment of pouring materials, there are also some skills. Impurities are inevitable, but it is best to keep them consistent.It sounds complicated, but the pallet is the part that least affects the accuracy.In the process of normal use of the balance, people often put paper of the same quality in the trays on both sides to hold medicines, so the accuracy error of the trays can be repaired.

Even so, the apprentices still hope to do their best. Looking at their seriousness, they know that they must be strict with themselves.

By about 10 o'clock in the evening, Wu Zong finally completed a balance with an accuracy of 0.7. After a few corrections, it almost reached his best level.

It is such a balance, and the price in the star warlock store is likely to exceed 50 taels of silver.Therefore, star warlocks are occupations that do not lack small money. Most of the time, they prefer to spend money to buy rather than make them themselves. Therefore, the prices of items that only star warlocks can make in the world remain high. Once ordinary craftsmen master If you know the tricks, the price will drop rapidly and become popular.However, star warlocks are very short of money. Every experiment they do, even every time they cast a star formation, they have to burn a lot of money. If the money is not limited, an star warlock can easily raise A level or two by myself, for anyone, that could be the goal of their life.

From the appearance, the balance made by Wu Zong can be said to be very good. The straight wood is shiny after hand-polishing. According to Cheng Jinzhou of the standard physical balance, except for the attractive wooden material, its use value is almost non-existent. Let alone used in the laboratory, even if it is weighing precious metals such as gold and silver, an error of 0.7g can kill people. But the price difference of dozens of catties of grain.As for the analytical balance and electronic balance that are necessary in laboratories in the 21st century, the balance with a precision of 0.1 is just a toy.

Such a balance is not as good as the precise scales in the hands of gold and silversmiths. It is no wonder that the development of chemistry in the whole world is extremely slow-they still need too much preparation before the outbreak.

Wu Zong sat on the chair with a blush on his face and said with a sneer: "I have studied land surveying a lot. I have no talent in item making, and it is difficult to obtain the relevant star formations."

To buy a star array, you must either spend association contribution points or spend money. Usually astrologists prefer to choose the former, because contribution points are not only currency, but also represent your level of astronomy and the circle you can enter.Compared with the improvement of the star warlock level, the value of money is easily underestimated.The rarer the star array is, the more contribution points are needed. Wu Zong is not yet an official astromancer. To obtain the star array, he can only be the same as ordinary people. Naturally, it is difficult to obtain valuable ones.

Cheng Jinzhou nodded noncommittally, and experimented on the balance with a few weights.He first used a ruler to draw a line on the white paper to represent the beam, and then used the angle to represent the deflection of the balance according to different weights. He easily found out the instability of the balance.

Wu Zong was sitting next to him watching, his face became more and more red, but his expression was more serious. There were very few opportunities for him to improve himself. For a 40-year-old middle-aged man, any time in astrology The understanding above may be his last.

"The beam still needs to be replaced with metal." Cheng Jinzhou glanced at Xiang Xin who was drawing on the whiteboard, and said, "Although wooden beams are easy to carve, the wood is too uneven, and errors are almost inevitable."

He also said the same thing to Xiang Xin.

Lu Xu had been jumping in boredom for a long time, and retorted Cheng Jinzhou halfway through listening, "How can the metal beam be so easy to deal with? If it was me, it would be fine. Of the three boys you called, which one can carve on metal?"

Cheng Jinzhou ignored him and continued: "It is also a problem if the beam is too long. The longer the beam, the easier it is to be unbalanced..."

Lu Xu simply laughed and said, "I don't understand, the longer the beam of the balance, the more sensitive it is."

"Who did you listen to?" Cheng Jinzhou was full of surprise.For a long time in the 19th century, this sentence was circulated in the balance manufacturing industry, but it was not expected that people in different worlds would have the same fallacies and legends.

Liu Kuang seemed to stop his work on the whiteboard, turned his head and asked, "Jinju, do you have a different understanding?"

"The length of the beam has nothing to do with the sensitivity of the balance." Cheng Jinzhou's eyes widened. An ordinary physical balance is not difficult in theory. In the final analysis, it is a matter of craftsmanship.He'd already excelled in the theory of scales, and it wouldn't hurt to make some extra money off of it.

"Oh, why?" Liu Kuang walked over with great interest.

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