Bab 116: Remaking the turbine (2
"Your highness, It is my pleasure to do this job with passion. I can't slack off. However, even if the blacksmithing guild has been working overtime, we haven't managed to finish fabricating all the needed components for the turbine... Please forgive us your highness." Nataschenka said in a low voice.
The walls of the storage rooms had some creeks and deformations here and there because of the heavy pieces of steel that brushed on the walls and left behind these marks. Virtya would have to do some repairs here but he was not overwhelmed because he knew that with cement, the overhauls would be done fast and cheaper.
Virtya stared at Nataschenka for a moment and then he rubbed his chin before he said expressionlessly,
"Let's look at what is in the next room." He paused for a moment as they walked towards the next room and said,
"You have done well Nataschenka. Don't be disappointed or dismayed. I have given the workers at the cement plant two weeks to finalize bringing up the cement plant and I am sure that by the end of this week, you would have finished fabricating the parts of the rotary kiln."
Virtya came to a stop at the door of the next storage room and opened it, here, he saw the long bucket blades which were 4 meters long each. There were many of them here but they were not enough as the blacksmithing guild was still fabricating them.
"It is expensive to make each of these components. This turbine has drained a lot of money from me. You should know that each of these components had to be plated by either brass or copper and both brass and copper are insanely expensive. Then after the fabrication of the components themselves, I need to pay the blacksmiths who are molding these parts and buy expensive iron from Litkesh." As Virtya told the crew, Nataschenka nodded along with a serious face to show that she agreed with what Virtya had said.
The last storage room that Virtya opened its doors was keeping the hubs and the cogwheels.
"Now, with what we have, let's start." At Virtya's order, the first 10 metre long round steel bar was brought. It was only this round steel that Virtya was going to work with as he didn't want the protected chamber to be overwhelmed and therefore, he would create the first turbine using this 10 metre round steel and then it would be taken out thereafter before the second turbine could be built. Virtya wanted to create three turbines which would be ferried to the cement plant where the workers would have to put the ends of the turbines together to form a long 30 metres turbine.
This time, Virtya was not going to use the stands but instead, he would use the chains to hold the round steel bar in place.
Of course, these chains were tied to the railing of the roof of the protected chamber.
With the use of chains, the round steel was pulled upwards and held in place.
And then the hub of the turbine which was fitted with bearings to ensure that it rolled unhinderedly. The hubs had slotted ends so that they could join to other hubs or cogwheels.
Finally, the outer curvature of the hub had flanges with holes where the bucket blades could be fastened to the hub.
One should know that each hub was 8 metres long and they had a hole that run from one end to the other, the diameter of this hole was 23 centimeters so that the round steel bar could freely go through this hole before the hub was fastened onto the round steel bar.
One should know that the diameter of the round steel bar was 20 centimeters while its ends were not only slotted but they also had holes where a big nut could pass through so that the round steel bar could be fixed to other round steel bars.
Virtya was using the round steel bars this time round because the previous round steel that had a hole running from one end to the other were weak and they could not even hold the heavy hub of the turbine, let alone the turbine itself which was a movable mechanism.
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