OOC: Sorry for the delay. I've been exhausted for the past week.
Well. I've going to have several projects.
1: Purify the Salt Peter
To purify it. I first need to set up a still to distill water.
So I'll get a copper pot and make a conical lid for it out of copper. then I'll drill a hole in the tip and then braze a long copper tube on to it. Then I'll wind the tube into a curl without kinking it.
(These people haven't gone through a electrical revolution. So the copper shouldn't be as expensive as it is now in out modern world.)
I'll boil some water in the still. Any impurities in the water should remain in the pot while the water condenses in the copper tube and drips into another bucket I set up.
I'm going to make a wide funnel. I'll get a spare sheet of thick paper. Then I'll cover the end of the funnel with the paper and hold it in place with a metal band. Making a paper filter.
Then I'll dissolve as much salt peter as I can into the distilled water. Then I'll run it through the paper filter and into a metal bucket. The salt peter and water should go through since it is dissolved salt. And the Other particles within the salt peter should stop at the paper filter.
Then I'll let the water evaporate. Leaving the pure salt peter.
2: Work on the automatic log debarker.
I'll Draw up my plans to see what Tol Thinks and about how much it would cost to build.
The core of the machine is a saw blade that is rotating horizontally. There are two tracks of rollers To ether side of the Saw. The Saw is sat so that it is about an half inch above the rollers. There are walls set up to ether side so that the direction of the saws rotation will push the log into the wall.
The workers will push the log through the saw using a crossbar across the widest section of the log. So they wont have to get their limbs near the saw. They will push it through one way. Rotate it a bit and then push it through the other way. Repeat until you have the log debarked.
-->Direction of rotation
Wall _ ________
_______ / \ Rollers
Rollers(Saw)--------
------- \_/ Wall
3: Write an 'Invention' journal
I'll Start writing down as many ideas and how to implement them as I can.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:39, Fri 18 Aug 2017.