216 6.10 Laying The First Brick Out Of Many (1/2)

Bricks were made of several materials where it was mixed and sun-dried. These are the oldest method that is still currently being used in some parts of Indonesia where sun-dried hollow bricks were being manufactured by hand. I remembered watching a documentary where a young boy would mix in those ingredients and press them into a mortar and arrange them in the ground to be sun-dried.

Hmm, very laborious work. That sun-dried bricks would be sun-dried for at least 2 days in good weather and up to 4 days if it is being placed in a shed. Nah... That won't do. The process would be too long.

Next, I searched for oven-baked bricks and these adobe bricks had long existed and we're being used to make high rise buildings in some parts of the world. It was a 60s method and was as sturdy as it can get. These oven-baked bricks had used the same ingredients and were fired in the oven just like pottery pieces, or much like the process of the Refined Steel pieces.

If we wanted something simple, we would use chipped stones to make these paths, but chipped stones, are just chipped stones and it would make travel as hard as the ones made in these wet grounds. Not much difference though for the performance of the wagons that were either 2 to 4 inches wide.

”Let's go back, Sensei. Let me draw up a plan. Furthermore, the contractors would just need to dig about 5 inches deep for this single line path from the southern gate right into Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. With the improved path, the business would improve, just like our business district.”

”I could share with you my knowledge of how these useless mud could be used as bricks. It's much weaker than masonry, right? And masonry would be most expensive since it's cut stones.”

”Yes, Sensei. We could make use of this mud, and transport it to our Ops Room and we could bring it to the Realm of Mind where we could produce oven-baked or fired bricks. I just néed to draw some diagrams in order to manufacture these in bulk.”

”The mixture would be manual and the process would be automated of course. We don't even have to spend so much time in the Realm of Mind and just pour in the mix and return back.”

I had the perfect picture that I wanted in my mind and it would be sort of cold-pressed mortar and fed into a large furnace that would be at 1000 degrees Celcius. There would be a conveyor belt underneath and moves about an hour slowly by a 5-meter conveyor belt.

Yeah, that should be it. A new scene, new machinery based on my current visualisation. Let me draw up the sketchy diagram first and present it to our very own potter, Hiko Seijuro or his other alias, Niitsu Kakunoshin as a Potter. Hehe.

After we discussed the sketchy diagram that I had drawn on the sketch pad and also getting to know the basics of making bricks as opposed to pottery, I had the rough knowledge of mixing these things up.

First things are the ingredients, we would need sand, soil, mud, straw, pine needles and water. According to Hiko-sama, these would be made into a kind of mud that can be moulded in the hand, and not the watery kind so the water content is just 15% of the base materials.

Hiko-sama added that once the mixture is mixed, it would be cold-pressed into moulds and he drew a moulding press on top of a moulding tray that measured 8 inches long x 4 inches wide and 4 inches thick. Each moulding tray would be able to be pressed into 5x2 pieces.

I drew a moulding tray that could fit 10 pieces of brick inside it. The mechanics would be similar to the dispenser for the Molten steel. And a mixer to help mix the ingredients inside properly. And a conveyor belt to aid to bring the materials up into the mixer then into the dispenser. I drew some sketches and it looked quite alright and seemed quite workable.

I then drew a 10-meter conveyor belt that would feed the moulded bricks and baked inside the chamber of at least 1500-3000 degrees Celcius to hasten the bricks to be dry and ready to use. It would take at least one hour from the time the brick is 'printed' and to reach the end of the10 meter chamber.

Looks good on paper, alright.

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Now to get some initial brick building materials first to make a few samples. I called a few guards and told them that I need some sand, soil, mud, straw, pine needles, a few buckets of water and some shovels to make a kind of semi-hard mixture.

They soon get to work and since they were initially from the workers of the building and construction, they knew instantly what I would be using these for and once the materials were collected, they made a mound on the ground and mix them all up.