Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 393 Solicitation

“Claude, why are you using copper skin as a shell case? ”

“Why is the cartridge case a lap bigger than the cartridge? ”

“Why are bullets not circular, you want to make them conical? ”

“Why is the whole bullet so far away without having to put it all in the barrel? ”

“How did you come up with the design concept of a revolver? ”

“And, Claude, what a genius idea you have for a reel, can you tell me? ”

“By the way, Claude, if I lengthen the barrel of this revolver and add a butt to the back, can I make a revolver long? ”

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Mrs. Sonia, this will be transformed into a hundred thousand baby whys, holding a revolver in her hand and loving her hand, grabbing Claude's arm and asking her own questions.

Claude had turned his eyes white and said, "How do I know why a bullet case is bigger than a bullet head?" Anyway, the success of this revolver just borrowed the impression of the old boss's model pistol and the western film. Claude can really explain that he can only bluff a few similar, rather than true, concepts. After all, there is a Master Byrd standing next to him who is preparing to listen to his answers. This is about whether the solicitation will succeed or not, and Claude is not to be careless.

“You let me go, Sonia, because a lot of the questions you just asked are connected and repetitive.” Claude coughed two positive answers, and when Sonia let go of his arm, he invited him: "Uncle, Sonia, why don't you come back to the lab with me, there's a pen on it, and I can tell you what I thought and what I thought when I designed this revolver. ”

Only Claude, her sister Anna, Sonia and Master Byrd went back to the lab, and little Mark wanted to learn how to ride horses, and Claude told McJackie to take good care of his first godson, and as for the big Grimes, he stood guard outside the lab door.

“When I was little, I didn't like short. Compared to a long gun, its power is too small and loading is just as cumbersome.” This is how Claude started: “I often wondered at the time, why is it that short lengths are half or a third as long as fabricated guns, but the range and power are so different? ”

Claude looked at Sonia and gave her a smile: “Ten years ago, in the Eastern World War, I was still a lieutenant officer, and I needed to lead the troops in person, equipped with the weapons of a lieutenant officer, and I needed to carry a short sword, a firearm, and a short strap tied to my thigh.

In fact, this shortage was useless on the battlefield and became a burden. My colleagues have often thrown a short bullet at anywhere, lightly mounted a long sword or a bayonet gun, rushed to positions and fought with the enemy, and since then I've wanted to devise a reliable short firearm that we can defend ourselves on the battlefield.

The biggest weakness of the shortage is the loading problem. Although the shortage now uses fixed cartridge bullets, after firing, you still need to clean the barrel as usual, then shove the fixed cartridge bullet in from the gun mouth, top the bullet with a set rod, then open the trigger box, break the cartridge with the needle, expose the powder inside, then pour the powder into the cartridge, contact with the powder exposed in the cartridge, then clamp the ignited flame rope onto the top of the cartridge so that you can prepare to aim...

This series of operations is just too cumbersome, and there's not enough time on the battlefield for a lieutenant officer to defend himself or destroy his enemies. I was wondering if I could simplify the process a little bit, and then I thought about it, and I hit the fixed-cartridge bullet.

My original idea was to light the gunpowder inside the fixed-cartridge bullet, and I didn't need any firebox needle flame rope, and that would be very simple, I would put the firestone behind the fixed-cartridge bullet, and then put a hammer on the backside of the short cartridge, fire the gunpowder inside the cartridge, and fire the gun out. ”

“I was in Squirrel Village when I met you.” Claude nodded at Sonia and Sonia blushed.

Claude went on to say, "We explored the possibility of filling the rear chamber at that time, and the first short one I designed at that time was this.....”

Claude drew a short piece of paper, only one barrel, a big hammer behind the barrel, and a wooden tray and a board machine, and there was no firebox on the barrel, and these messy things looked very simple, and Claude drew another curve beneath the barrel that could bend.

“I wanted to design a short one, so that the barrel could bend down, shove it in the back, and fire it with a hammer, making it easier on the battlefield. If possible, I would also like to add one or two barrels to the barrel so that three bullets can be fired at a time or three times in a row.” Claude shrugged and gave a helpless look: “But my design failed, and I thought beautifully, and the result was impossible. ”

Sonia intervened and said, "Claude, the first gun I designed in the rear loading mode was actually just like yours, bent down and loaded. Later, with gunpowder, I tried this loading mode again, and it only ranged about two hundred and sixty meters..."

Claude nodded: "You are the result of actual operational experiments, and I am not as convenient in the military as you are, but I also did some tests with a few guns that were damaged on the battlefield, and found that the biggest problem was the bullet, not the barrel. A cartridge loading bullet is not suitable for rear loading mode, for example, loading a stone on the bottom of a cartridge loading bullet and then hitting a fire with a hammer, which sometimes pushes the cartridge loading bullet forward into the barrel without firing a spark.

Or cartridge mounted bullets shrink into a bunch because of a blow, which is why the stone hits the dumb fire too high, and not every hammer makes the stone hit out of the spark and ignites the powder inside the cartridge mounted bullet. When I found this problem, I thought of something to replace this cartridge with as a cartridge shell...

During my stay in Squirrel Village, I found a hidden magician in the back mountains, and with her help, I did a lot of experiments, and finally found that the best fit for a bullet casing was brass leather, because brass is very spreadable. If iron is used as a cartridge case, each time the cartridge is fired, the cartridge case of iron is split and cannot be reused like this copper cartridge case. In addition, gold and silver are too expensive, lead and zinc are too soft to deform easily, steel shells are too stiff and brittle, and none of them perform as well as bullet shells made from brass.

After substituting brass leather for cartridge fixing, another problem arises where the shell is easily caught in the barrel after the bullet is fired and takes a lot of effort to pull it out. The question perplexed me for a long time, and it was only after one of the artillery field exercises that I figured out the logic. ”

Claude picked up a piece of paper again and drew a very simple cannon shape on it: "Did you find that all the cannons were thick at the bottom and the cannons on them were thinner? I was also curious to ask an old artillery why the bottom of the cannon was so thick.

The old artillery responded that if it was not thick enough, there would be a lot of gunpowder exploding inside and it would be easy to blow up the artillery. Just because of the thickness of the casting, after the powder explodes at the bottom, it is bound by the bottom and both sides of the cannon tube, the great power generated by the gunpowder explosion can only be impacted along the direction of the cannon tube, thus pushing heavy solid bullets out...

The words of this old artillery inspired me. Now that the artillery was fired like this, isn't it true that the guns were fired? The two are actually the same thing, nothing more than a bigger one smaller. To sum up, a firearm launch is also a space that requires only one direction to open and the rest of the perimeter to be sealed, so that the dynamics generated by the explosion after the powder is ignited will shoot the bullet in the direction of the opening.

If I'm right, then my brass cartridge shell has actually replaced the barrel, and the powder ignites an explosion in the cartridge shell, just like it did in the barrel, so all you have to do is point the bullet at the barrel. That's why I built a cartridge case a lap bigger than a bullet, because it won't get stuck in the barrel anymore.

All I need to do is get something to hold the cartridge case in place so it doesn't loosen up, while preventing the cartridge case from bursting and deforming when the cartridge is fired. So I don't need a better barrel to withstand more gunpowder explosions, and filling the barrel with more gunpowder to increase the range of the bullet like Sonia did is actually a detour... "

Sonia's tears were all over her face, Claude, and that made her feel a little embarrassed. As a firearms manufacturing expert, she now hates herself only for being a muscle, knowing that adding bullet-launched gunpowder and barrels won't get through, and that it took more than 800 barrels six months to waste nothing to figure out, so why can't she just change her mind like Claude and start with bullets?

“With this copper-shell bullet, a short pistol can be made. But the problem is that the dumb fire rate is too high, and, as I just said, loading firestones at the bottom of the bullet does not guarantee that every hammer will strike out a spark. No one on the battlefield can guarantee that you've been there fighting hammers or replacing bullets while the enemy ignores you, so my short pistol design is still not very practical.

For a long time, the production of short pistols could only be painted on the drawings because no fire-fighting powder could be found. Later, I saw a water truck, the kind that had a bamboo cartridge in the gutter, spoon the water, and poured the water from the bamboo cartridge into the field. I believe you have an impression? It inspired me that if a bullet is mute, then turn to the next bullet, one turn down, and there will always be two or three bullets fired out, which is better than staring at a mute bullet and beating it with a hammer...

So I started designing revolvers, and that's the kind of pistol that's in front of us. By calculating, I found that a reel filled with five to six bullets was the most suitable, too many to appear complex, easy to make mistakes, and even the hammer couldn't strike the stone at the bottom of the bullet correctly, so I designed the reel of these six bullets, and went on to design the barrel and the barrel, and the final result was the three revolvers in front of you. ”

Claude picked up a revolver, broke it up, took the wheel off, put it back on, and put it back on: “When designing this wheel, I also thought about how to quickly fill the battlefield with bullets. Later it was thought that after shooting a bullet, there was no need for a bullet to be reloaded, and it was easier and faster to take a full rotation of the bullet...

But here I have to thank Sonia, if you hadn't invented the dynamite, the fact that I designed this revolver would still be stuffed in a box every day. Because the matte rate is too high to fire with a flint hammer, my sister Anna has tested it, has hit the wheel twice, and one bullet can't fire, so I can only stuff them in a box... "

Master Byrd clapped softly: "I must congratulate you, Claude, for shaming our so-called firearms masters. You have succeeded in designing a new type of gun that is completely different from the type of firerope gun, and it has been so perfect and excellent that there is little room for improvement. But I also have a question, why do you call it a revolver instead of a revolver? ”

Claude Khan is down. Yeah, why is it called a revolver instead of a revolver? Where do I go? What worries me most is that the elderly suspect that I am just a gun design amateur, how can I design a gun that is so perfectly mature...

Fortunately, Master Byrd did not question the design, but rather strangled the name. Claude wiped the sweat off his forehead and unconsciously removed the revolvers in his hand. All of a sudden, the psychic moves: “Well, uncle, didn't you notice that every time I pulled this reel off the left side, so I used to call it a revolver, but the revolver was okay, but not as cool as it sounded..."

“By the way, Uncle, can you and Sonia stay here and help me?” Claude asked.

“Help you?” Master Byrd looked at Claude with some confusion: "This revolver has been designed successfully, what can I do for you? ”

“Here's the thing, Uncle, you know all three revolvers were refined by my sister in the Alchemy Charm Array. If large-scale production is to be carried out, the standardized design of each component must be carried out to meet the requirements of mechanized production and manual assembly.

In addition, there is a need for the design and manufacture of a standard bullet production line that specializes in the production of bullets for such brass bullet casings. If my sister assembles in the Alchemy Charm Array, I'm sure she won't be able to hold hundreds a day and will soon get bored.

In terms of standardized design and large-scale production, my sister and I are both outsiders and have no idea where to start. Beyond that, I also wanted to design a long gun, the same bullet that fired this brass shell, but the design of a revolver had strangled me, so I couldn't think of a long gun launch structure...

So I want you and Sonia to stay and help me, and if you want, I can build a gun lab for you all on my own... "

A firearms laboratory is costly, requires machinery, and there are not a small number of test consumables. In particular, Master Byrd and Sonia are both magicians, and the consumption of some magic materials is more costly. Claude went to a laboratory built by Master Byrd himself at the firearms repair workshop, which is nothing compared to the conditions of his sister's laboratory. So Sonia had to experiment with the good barrels in the name of Master Byrd, the director of the firearms repair workshop, and ruined too many barrels to attract protests from the inspectors.

Sonia frowned and laughed and answered her petty lover's request: “I can stay and help you..."

"Claude, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that there are no externalities here, because a good firearm factory or a production line must have enough water power.....”

Claude laughed: "Uncle, we don't need water, because we have firepower. ”