The gunpowder was already mixed and they packed it into paper boxes.
Then they placed it in a wooden shed to the south.
These primitive people wanted to play with gunpowder, but Ma Lin forbade it.
"Don't mess with such dangerous stuff."
It took Ma Lin more than twenty days to set up a table saw, driven by manpower, yet it was not precise, wasting so much of his effort.
The longest procedure he had to endure was polishing the steel plate.
He intended to polish the steel plate to be very flat, suitable for processing metal parts.
But the result was far from satisfactory.
He believed the main reason was his poor craftsmanship, along with insufficient patience and time spent.
He saw it as a hurdle he had to overcome.
He would need a large number of metal parts in the future, most of which he could only fabricate manually, and the initial machine tools would also need to be hand-made.
