Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 2:11:49 GMT
January 10th. Located in the former dungeons of Arendelle Castle. In particular, the one whose outer wall was removed by force by Elsa. Its about mid afternoon. This is an open thread to establish Audrey's Boiler & Machine Shop. (We also do clocks and the occasional automobile! As well as some plumbing and reluctantly bathrooms.)
The brazer roared red hot, the coals glowing as the rivets were dropped in. It had taken a while to get the fires up to the correct temperature. It would seem the local coal was full of slag and didn't want to burn without producing more smoke then heat. A fact that the young engineer had to solve with a makeshift fan and chimney. Already, she was going back on her word about mitigating the amount of smoke her operations would produce, and so far all she had done was fire up the shop's vertical boiler and set up one riveting station. If Audrey was going to do anything like she wished, she would have to find a way to obtain better coal, or come up with methods of burning smokeless.
The ambitious engineer's new shop was set up in the foundations of Arendelle Castle. Something that being a part of the army had provided. Where there once was an old dungeon, she had transformed into a boiler shop and mechanical works. One of the walls had been blown out, which made things easier on her to quickly knock out the rest of the wall with a sledge (Vinny would have been proud. Although probably disappointed in the lack of explosives) to form a large garage like opening big enough to admit a locomotive! It had taken the better part of two days to get her equipment set up, her lathes and drills in place, and light the first fires in the shop boiler she had assembled. However, it had all been worth it. The dark skinned woman pushed a lock of thick brown hair to the side before dropping a set of brass goggles over her eyes. It had taken a war to do it, but she finally had branched out on her own.
Still, she was in service to the Enchanted Suns. Which meant her duties would fall first to their needs. However, there would be time for that. First thing is first, a little project of her own to get things started. Looking into the brazer, the rivets where now glowing red hot. Reaching into the coals with a set of iron tongs, she expertly drew the rivet out into the opening and slung it into a hole drilled neatly into the iron plates that made up a half-built water-tube boiler. As soon as the red hot rivet was in place, her hands tossed the tongs and grabbed a rivet clamp and hammer. With the clamp in place to hold the steadily cooling rivet, Audrey began to wail away on the other end. Mashing the malleable iron out so that it mushroomed into a thick head that was wider then the hole. As it cooled, the rivet shrank..and created a rock solid fastener to hold the plates together.
This water-tube boiler would provide clean steam for some of her other tools. As well as hopefully be a prototype for other armored equipment the Suns might need. Small and light, the size of a piano, it burned fuel cleanly and produced little smoke. Vastly more portable then the fire-tube variety that one usually saw on ships and locomotives. It wasn't much, but it was a start. This one would replace the ancient vertical boiler, a leftover from the Thatch expedition, and hopefully not put out as much thick smoke.
It was time to get serious with her work, make her father proud, and show this new world what skills she could bring to the table. That it, if she could keep that old boiler from having a crisis of self existence. As soon as she had the clamp undone, the old boiler in the back of the shop lifted it's safety valves with a cool 'whoosh'. Audrey whipped her head around and rolled her eyes as the pressure needle dropped and a cloud of cool white steam vented from her shop and rolled out into the clear air. Thank goodness her shop faced the sea and not the town. Otherwise, this could be a problem.
The brazer roared red hot, the coals glowing as the rivets were dropped in. It had taken a while to get the fires up to the correct temperature. It would seem the local coal was full of slag and didn't want to burn without producing more smoke then heat. A fact that the young engineer had to solve with a makeshift fan and chimney. Already, she was going back on her word about mitigating the amount of smoke her operations would produce, and so far all she had done was fire up the shop's vertical boiler and set up one riveting station. If Audrey was going to do anything like she wished, she would have to find a way to obtain better coal, or come up with methods of burning smokeless.
The ambitious engineer's new shop was set up in the foundations of Arendelle Castle. Something that being a part of the army had provided. Where there once was an old dungeon, she had transformed into a boiler shop and mechanical works. One of the walls had been blown out, which made things easier on her to quickly knock out the rest of the wall with a sledge (Vinny would have been proud. Although probably disappointed in the lack of explosives) to form a large garage like opening big enough to admit a locomotive! It had taken the better part of two days to get her equipment set up, her lathes and drills in place, and light the first fires in the shop boiler she had assembled. However, it had all been worth it. The dark skinned woman pushed a lock of thick brown hair to the side before dropping a set of brass goggles over her eyes. It had taken a war to do it, but she finally had branched out on her own.
Still, she was in service to the Enchanted Suns. Which meant her duties would fall first to their needs. However, there would be time for that. First thing is first, a little project of her own to get things started. Looking into the brazer, the rivets where now glowing red hot. Reaching into the coals with a set of iron tongs, she expertly drew the rivet out into the opening and slung it into a hole drilled neatly into the iron plates that made up a half-built water-tube boiler. As soon as the red hot rivet was in place, her hands tossed the tongs and grabbed a rivet clamp and hammer. With the clamp in place to hold the steadily cooling rivet, Audrey began to wail away on the other end. Mashing the malleable iron out so that it mushroomed into a thick head that was wider then the hole. As it cooled, the rivet shrank..and created a rock solid fastener to hold the plates together.
This water-tube boiler would provide clean steam for some of her other tools. As well as hopefully be a prototype for other armored equipment the Suns might need. Small and light, the size of a piano, it burned fuel cleanly and produced little smoke. Vastly more portable then the fire-tube variety that one usually saw on ships and locomotives. It wasn't much, but it was a start. This one would replace the ancient vertical boiler, a leftover from the Thatch expedition, and hopefully not put out as much thick smoke.
It was time to get serious with her work, make her father proud, and show this new world what skills she could bring to the table. That it, if she could keep that old boiler from having a crisis of self existence. As soon as she had the clamp undone, the old boiler in the back of the shop lifted it's safety valves with a cool 'whoosh'. Audrey whipped her head around and rolled her eyes as the pressure needle dropped and a cloud of cool white steam vented from her shop and rolled out into the clear air. Thank goodness her shop faced the sea and not the town. Otherwise, this could be a problem.
