The Age of the 21st Century Magazine

Hope of meeting a difficult problem called the size of the province eventually found Dr. Nam the next day to find a solution.

After hearing the problem, Nam thought of a solution by bending his jaw for a while.

“Hmm... if that's the case...

I don't really know what to do right now...

For now, what can we do with our existing equipment?

Let's show the elders the answers first. ”

Nam also told the principled story that there seemed to be no viable solution to it.

Dr. Nam, you didn't have a solution.

Crafting problems seem to need to be solved at the level of heading to the bare ground from the beginning.

“Yeah, I guess so. ”

Eventually, the two agreed that a new form of equipment was needed for the manufacture of melee weapons.

The Masterpiece group arrived at a factory in Changwon, which is crowded with manufacturers of Magun parts for a tour of the equipment of the joint venture.

On the threshold of the factory with the South River Heavy Industries sign, there is still a hot spring.

The factory leader of the joint venture who was waiting at the entrance welcomed the group.

“Welcome. Dr. Nam and Mr. Hope have been waiting since morning. ”

“Nice to meet you, Factory.”

“Nice to meet you. It's been a long time. Factory.”

“Yes, it's been a long time. Come on in.

Let me show you the equipment we have.

The equipment you see at that entrance is a hammered machine. ”

There are huge robotic arms and conveyor equipment pointed at by the factory.

The equipment has a conveyor belt close by and a red circular ingot is moving over the belt.

The circular ingot appears to be about 80 centimeters thick over a length of about 2 meters.

A burning heat flows from the circular ingot and digs up the face of hope.

The factory pointed at the ingot in front of the burning heat.

“That ingot over there is actually a lump of NAB080 alloy, not steel.

NAB080 is an alloy of carbon and beryllium and scandium and aluminum.

Surprisingly, this alloy has more than three times the strength of the same volume of reinforced titanium alloy.

It's only half the weight.

Its melting point is close to 2,000 degrees, making it more heat resistant than steel. ”

“Oh, yeah, we know how to get into the gloves on the HR1 stables. ”

“You know very well that you are the commander of the Hunter team.

You see that robot arm in front of the equipment over there? ”

The robot arm looks very similar to a typical industrial robot arm.

“Yes."

“That robot will bite and start banging that circular ingot. ”

Wheeeeeeeeee!

The robot arm grabbed the ingot that had moved on the conveyor belt and pushed it into the equipment called the hammer forage machine.

The equipment has a huge iron hammer, which moves up and down and starts pounding the ingot hard.

The enormous punch sounds periodically and knocks on the ingot. The ingot shapes slightly according to the rotation of the robot arm.

The most famous person from the Korean Forge who was watching it was overwhelmed by its size and opened his eyes wide.

“Hmmm, the automatic hammer in my forge was just a sneeze. It just wasn't a match.

How many tons is that? Factory, sir. "

“It's 50 tons.

In a hammer podge machine, it's almost the world's largest size. ”

The robot arm continues to rotate the circular ingot left and right and increasingly takes shape.

The noisy hammer continues for a while, and eventually the circular ingot is slowly shaped by the robot arm.

“Oh, that one. ”

The hammer-shaped object had a shape that had been seen with a lot of hope.

Always in hand when holding the Iron Wall Shield of Seawater...

“Now you know.

We were making iron wall shield handles of seawater with this machine. ”

“Oh, I never thought I'd make a hammered iron wall shield handle like that. ”

“Yeah, well, if you make handles out of casting or sintering alone, they're less intense even if they're heat treated.

With a hammer like that, the particles become uniform and cohesive, making them stronger. ”

Also, the handle of the iron wall shield was a sturdy barrel alloy that was ignorantly filled, not in the form of a pin pipe.

It can't be a handle that fits the shield's signature sense.

Even though the Koguryo Infantry Shield, which doesn't require a melee battle, is in the form of a pipe.

The Iron Wall Shield will break the handle several times in a collision with monsters if you don't make the handle out of a whole alloy like that.

“Oh, I bet... that's why you can't break a handle if you bump into a bunch of ignorant monsters. ”

“Yes, it is. In order to withstand the shocks of monsters who break down their chariot gloves,

If you don't make it this hard, it's going to be difficult. ”

It seems that the iron shield of seawater made of NAB080 alloy is too heavy for two tons of handles.

After a while of knocking, the shape was finally completed.

The robot arm put the product back on the conveyor belt to the next line.

“The monopoly is over now.

A handle shaped like that will be loaded onto the conveyor and moved to the next equipment.

Follow me. "

The equipment followed by the Hammer Forge machine is a huge cistern surrounded by robotic arms.

“Is this for cooling heat? ”

“Yes, for heat treatment. The temperature varies depending on the water bath.

The heat treatment temperature of the NAB080 alloy is a little different than that of normal steel.

Multiple heat treatments in different water baths at different temperatures to increase intensity.

Now let's look at the next piece of equipment. ”

This time it looks like a very high-tech machine.

Unlike Hammerford, machines that are seen in IT companies and nanoscience research facilities.

It is quite large, so it is about the size of a single-family home.

It is an unidentified piece of equipment. I can't guess its use.

“What is this? ”

“Yes, this is a particle accelerator. ”

“Yes? Why is the particle accelerator here? ”

“Ah, when you shoot a proton beam into the surface of a product with a particle accelerator, the tissue becomes dense.

to make the surface that receives the most shock energy more robust. ”

“Grundy particle accelerator, isn't that a tremendous piece of equipment?

This is a lot less than that. ”

The factory leader explained the question of Choi Nam.

“Oh, yes, in fact, there are a lot of particle accelerators that are much smaller than that.

But if you're that size, you're on a fairly large side of the particle accelerator. ”

Hope also nodded.

“Well, an ion engine on a wind-light airship is also a kind of ion particle accelerator. ”

“Yes, it is.

Anyway, coating and painting the titanium oxide film on the product at the end of this particle accelerator process completes the entire process. ”

Lastly, plating and painting were common sights in ordinary factories.

Looking at all the series of processes, the Master Team Elders took a similar tour of the parts factory next door.

A 9,700 tonne forging hydraulic press that takes the shape of a hexagon down to form the body of an iron wall shield of seawater.

I then toured all the equipment and manufacturing processes that make the shield, such as drilling holes with a high-power laser and planting CCD cameras throughout the completed shield.

It only takes me a day to tour the process of making shields.

The process of making such an iron wall shield does not seem easy.

Even working with the help of a machine seems to cost a lot of time and money.

Therefore, only two or three steel wall shields are produced per day in the South River Heavy Industries.

This is a very small number given that you need at least one spare shield per yard.

Given that more than 10 shields have been eaten by hope so far, there are fewer.

Choi Myung left the factory and said a few words.

“Ah, it takes a lot of work to build a shield.”

“That's right. It's a room to stop monsters.

Have you seen the elders well? ”

“Very well. The equipment in the factory is just enormous. ”

“That would be very absurd."

“Yes, because it gives our subsidiaries a huge amount of funding. ”

In the words of hope, the nobles nodded.

However, since there was such a bread-making funding, a perfect result is called the Magun Shield.

After the tour, the group immediately proceeded to a charcoal rib house in Changwon.

“Let's have a drink, Mr. Choi. ”

The most famous person nodded with a satisfied face, receiving a soju cup.

“What a young man to lead.

Young people don't know how to drive these days, and they don't even know how to get inside the bottle lettre.

I learned it right. ”

“Oh, what? Hehe, I learned it from the senior engineers when I was at the construction site for a while. ”

“What a strange face you've had since you were a little young.

You have to do a lot of hard work because people are young. I feel a lot.

It's not necessarily the kind of center that doesn't collapse well on the hard stuff, rather than making money out of it. ”

“Oh, yeah... I don't feel like writing that down either. ”

The words with the experience of a senior's life are a great empathy.

Hope came to mind a few years ago.

I was lucky when the bare roof happened because of my father's surgical problems in the past.

I can't imagine what would have happened if it had collapsed.

However, it seems that what I have suffered at the time has been rather centered and has survived so far.

“What makes you think that? ”

“Oh, just like that. Anything at the factory that might help? ”

“It's no different than what we do in the forge when we look at the workflow.

It's just hammering and squeezing iron, and it's just selling big robots instead of our hands and machines instead.

That quantum acceleration makes a difference.

I wish our forge had a quantum accelerator like that. ”

“Oh yes... but it doesn't really make any difference between a forge and a factory. ”

“Right."

From what Choi Nam said, it seems that the old forge is not so different from a 21st-century factory with advanced engineering technology.

There is no difference between the crystal of the latest engineering technology called the Iron Wall Shield of Seawater and the process of making a cutlery knife in the Hansung forge.

I think it's a very ironic reality.

“So, was there any equipment you could use there? ”

“Other than molecular acceleration...

Apparently, the equipment is big and good because it's squeaky.......

Our artisans.

We don't just hammer ignorantly.

We study engineering and mathematics for our own good.

But it's also a theory, but what's the most important thing about making things?

What do you think? ”

“I don't know...”

“That's what I mean. In the end, fingertips matter.

You understand what I'm saying? ”

“If it's your fingertips...”

“Feel it, feel it, feel it at your fingertips.

No matter how advanced they are in that factory...

Even if it develops, it can't keep up with the technology that comes out of people's fingertips. "

In the end, it is better to make it by hand than an automated machine.

“Ah! Finally, you have to work by touching it with your own hands. ”

“Yes, a young friend is very clever.

I'm pretending. I get it. Uh-huh. ”

“Oh yes... fingertips... yes...”

Suddenly, the head of hope becomes dumb.

I toured the Seawater's Iron Wall Shield Manufacturing Plant, but eventually came back to its original origin.

I can't believe I had to make a lightning bolt for a horse-drawn horse in the 21st century.

It's made by hand-punching hundreds of kilograms of outgoing validation.

At least a few tons of steel hammer will be needed to knock it out...

It does not seem easy to solve this difficult problem.

Dr. Nam, who was drinking next to him, also waved his head as he heard the story of the two men.

“Hope, I think it's twisted to make a weapon.

How the hell did you make that big road out of your hands? ”

“I see. Maybe you should hammer it on a horse-drawn horse. ”

“Yeah. Maybe you can hammer it on a horse-drawn horse... huh? ”

“Eh!”

“Oh!”

The two shouted resiliently almost simultaneously.

I can't believe there was a solution hidden in one word without thinking.

Even if both of them were absurd, they stared at each other in the face.