Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

While the designers were working hard to complete the design of the dome city, Chen Xin was also perfecting a new design.

It's just that unlike the perfect design drawings of the designers, Chen Xin is adjusting his design through the nano-molecules projected from the watch on his wrist.

This is the prototype of the previous mining Titan. Because it will not be mass-produced, it is only used for design and technical verification, so after the simplified machine for mass production has been finalized, this prototype will be useless. For use, it can only be placed in the warehouse.

Chen Xin felt that this was a bit too wasteful, so he planned to improve it to see if there was any chance of it being used again.

The answer is of course yes. It is impossible for such a Titan to be useless. Even if it is only used as a transport vehicle, it can come in handy, but the input and output are not proportional.

Of course, Chen Xin would not do this. What he envisioned was to put it in a more useful situation, and consider it to be mass-produced.

Although it has been proved before that the design of this prototype is unreasonable and not suitable for mass production, this is not a problem for Chen Xin.

The unreasonable design of this prototype machine is largely due to its unsuitability for working in mines.

In addition, it is a Titan itself, and ordinary workers cannot easily learn it, and need special driving training, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of its promotion.

If it's that kind of large mining machine that can effectively improve mining efficiency, that's fine, at worst, it's a big deal to train a professional driver.

Before the disaster, large industrial and mining enterprises would have such specially trained operators to operate those specialized equipment, which is not a big deal.

It's just that the scope of application of the prototype machine is too narrow. Professionally trained drivers drive the expensive Titan down to mine. At the same time, the output of mining has not increased much, and the input and output are still out of proportion.

Therefore, if Chen Xin wants to improve the prototype, the most important thing is to improve its scope of application and reduce the cost at the same time.

In Chen Xin's view, it is a way of thinking to design the prototype machine towards a simplified machine for mass production, but its original design idea is not a problem.

If it is only for personal use, the cost of the exoskeleton is indeed much lower than that of the Titan, and the operation is simple.

But if used as a mining vehicle, the prototype actually has potential for development.

Chen Xin has already investigated before. Most of the mines that are still in operation in China are underground mines. In the past, the open-pit mines that were easy to mine were mostly affected by disasters and the current snow-covered environment. To resume production.

If the prototype can be transformed into a model capable of large-scale surface mining, it can undoubtedly play a huge role.

It's just that if the Titan is to be used for mining in an open-pit mine, the prototype is undoubtedly designed to be small.

You must know that open-pit mines are not like underground mines. Here, large-scale machinery is usually used to directly dig out the entire mountain, crush all rocks and veins together, and then screen out the ore.

For mining on this scale, the efficiency of the prototype machine is undoubtedly not suitable.

Although it can be used more widely on the ground, the wind pick is undoubtedly very inefficient in this case.

Therefore, it is necessary to redesign the mining tools of the prototype, and at the same time increase its size so that it can have higher mining efficiency.

However, when Chen Xin was making such adjustments, he suddenly realized that he was not so much improving the prototype machine, but rather simply redesigning a machine that could be used in open-pit mining.

Thinking of this, he simply jumped out of the category of Titan, and directly redesigned it with the goal of large-scale mining machinery.

First of all, the original six-legged walking mode can be retained. Although the crawler chassis of normal large-scale construction machinery is also good, in the more complicated environment such as snow or mines, the walking stability brought by six supporting feet is undoubtedly. It is unmatched by wheels and tracks.

The design of the mine cabin can be improved into a mine bucket. A closed mine cabin is actually not necessary. Whether it is underground or on the ground, it is much simpler to directly have an open mine bucket.

As for the key to transformation, mining equipment is undoubtedly the top priority.

The original wind pick is indeed good for breaking rocks, but it is only for human use, and the production efficiency is not high enough.

If it is applied to this kind of large-scale mining machinery, it is better to directly replace two big hammers, and it will be faster to smash it directly.

So Chen Xin replaced this redesigned mining machine with two air hammers, which will be used to directly break large rocks and break rock walls.

In addition, the original two auxiliary machines, Da'ao, will still be retained, and they will still be used to collect ore.

It's just that now that its size has been enlarged, this mining machine designed by Chen Xinxin doesn't look like a half-human, half-spider monster, but more like a large spider with teeth and claws.

Chen Xin canceled the humanoid design of the upper body, and simply made this large mining machine into a spider shape, which has two huge forearms, on which are installed a pneumatic hammer and a sharp front end, which will be used to dig into the rock wall, Crush rocks with a jackhammer.

The six supporting legs on the side are used to assist walking, and only the two smaller auxiliary big claws at the front are used to load ore into the mine bucket.

The mining bucket still adopts the method of opening at the front, and loads directly from the head into the mining bucket, instead of needing to go around to the back and then throw it in.

And its size has also been enlarged a lot, the whole spider looks like a big truck.

Its driving system and cockpit were simplified by Chen Xin, turning it into an existence similar to the cockpit of a truck, where the driver only needs to pull the joystick to control the machine to move forward, backward, and work. .

Although its driving is still a bit complicated, and even inconvenient because of pulling the joystick, it is undoubtedly much easier to train a truck driver than to train a Titan driver.

Next, you only need to amplify its engine output to make it have more surging power and stronger output, and then it can become a very useful mining machine.

Of course, before that, it is still necessary to reduce costs as much as possible.

Chen Xin's way of reducing costs is more subtle than the previous researchers' method of directly dismantling a Titan into an exoskeleton.

What's more, the size of the large machinery itself is here, and it is impossible to reduce its manufacturing cost to the bottom all at once.

Fortunately, Chen Xin transformed it from a Titan into a large-scale machine. Many parts of it can be replaced, which invisibly reduces a lot of costs. Finally, after calculation, the volume of the large-scale machine is already twice the size of the original prototype. In terms of cost, it is even much lower than the prototype.