In less than a day, a bamboo mat that is countless times more pleasing to the eye than the previous straw mat has been made, and with it, sleeping in summer will be much more comfortable!

It is undeniable that it is still in a very simple state, with no fabric edging around it, which will reduce the comfort a lot, and there is no decoration and pattern, which is slightly monotonous.

But compared to the tattered straw mat, it doesn't affect its comfort or love for it!

After the bamboo mats were put into use, I already had the idea of going to the sea to fish and bathe, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter, so it was necessary to put the renovation of the swimming pool on the agenda.

If I delay it any longer, I am afraid that I will still be able to take a shower with water this summer, and I will miss it for the past two years after getting used to the existence of the swimming pool......

The number of bricks has accumulated a lot, and it is more than enough to renovate the swimming pool, and everything is ready to start!

It is worth mentioning that the place where the dredging was planned before the original dredging was the future swimming pool, so the shape is quite regular, and the amount of work to renovate is very small.

It's just that the size is slightly smaller than the previous pool, after all, the number of bricks and tiles made is several thousand less.

In terms of dimensions, the length is about 3 meters, the width is 2 meters, and the depth is 1.5 meters, these dimensions are almost intentional, and when I was digging for bricks, I thought of the transformation of the pool behind.

The results directly applied to the renovation that began today, and it only took about half a day to clean up all the excess soil inside, and then half a day to complete the renovation inside.

It took more than a day to pave bricks, and in less than three days, the swimming pool that I had been thinking about has joined the ranks of supporting facilities again, just waiting for a heavy rain to be officially put into use, and it was unbelievably smooth!

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Originally, I wanted to go directly to the sea after the swimming pool was built, but unfortunately the trip did not go smoothly and was delayed by my whim.

I stumbled upon a small rubber tree in the woods, which piqued my interest.

In my memory, there are still many clover rubber trees on the island, and when I used to explore the woods, I found dozens of them!

The role of rubber is obvious just by its name, the rubber tree produces rubber, and rubber may make various products, such as tires, such as shoe soles, such as raincoats and various inflatable appliances.

It has a wide range of uses, so wide that it can be seen everywhere in life, and rubber products are everywhere around us.

It also highlights that it has a great role, so large that many extremely important materials must be provided by it, and there is no substitute!

When I have rubber, I will be able to make some rubber products, and if I can make tools like inflatable boats out of rubber, my life will be easier even if I can't leave here.

Because when you can make such complex tools, you can make more practical tools, at least your life will be greatly improved!

Of course, these are just momentary fantasies, but if they can be successful...... it's exciting to think about!

The raw material of rubber is natural rubber, and natural rubber is the white sap that flows out after the rubber tree taps the rubber, which is similar to the human skin being cut and bleeding, and the sap will flow out of the cut on the rubber tree.

The shape that just came out of the tree resembled milk, and it was white and flawless, so if you were hot-headed, you might as well drink it as milk!

It's been two years since I've been on Crocodile Island, and it's actually been a long time since I found them when I first came to the island, and I haven't been able to talk to them because I'm still too busy at the end of the day.

The second reason is that his processing methods are too primitive, and he is very worried about the failure of the production to make himself happy, after all, this kind of scene has been experienced more than once!

But things always have to be done, do it earlier to gain experience earlier, improve early or give up sooner, and now that the temperature is high, I have a lot of time and patience.

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Perhaps out of the psychology of attaching importance to it, I brought all kinds of tools with me before leaving, as if I was going to move, and finally I felt like a fool, and I didn't need a few things to cut rubber!

Simplified, it only took a scythe, several plastic bottles with rubber cut off the neck, and a large full plastic bottle, as well as a sidearm.

The amount of items I bring has nothing to do with how much rubber I can harvest, or whether I can succeed or not, but with how troublesome I am......

Therefore, because I didn't have the confidence in my heart, I didn't plan to collect too much rubber juice at once, but only collected some for experiments, and then collected them on a large scale if I could successfully make items, after all, this subject was very difficult for me.

The process of tapping rubber can be said to be quite simple, just use a sickle to cut an inclined hole in the bark, and after a few seconds, white sap will slowly flow out of this hole.

All I had to do was tie a plastic bottle with a cut neck to a tree with a string cut off, catch the natural rubber coming out of the mouth, and so on.

It's just that the process of finding the rubber trees didn't go well, and they didn't come together automatically because I had to collect the rubber, and the trouble I got was that the rubber trees were very scattered.

It took more than half an hour to find seven trees in the neighborhood, two of which were too small to be excluded, and only five trees were able to function.

Half a day later, when I returned to the rubber tree to retrieve the rubber, the plastic bottles tied to the tree were almost full, but everything went well, and I just hope that it will go so smoothly in the future.

After being put together, there are about three to four catties, although the amount is not much, it can be used to verify that the results are enough.

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The shape of the rubber sap brought back is completely different from when it first came out of the tree, and even the high temperature has not stopped it from solidifying, and it now resembles the texture of tofu.

It is estimated that if it continues to be placed, the hardness will have an upward trend, and the result may be similar to the feel of the tire, but it is not very qualified to make mature and usable plastic products!

With my limited knowledge, it's a difficult problem to deal with, but it's easy to restore it to its original state, just heat it up and it will melt like ice.

So I prepared a clay pot, poured the slightly solidified rubber into the pot, and when the temperature rose to a certain level, it returned to its original liquid form again.

There are many processing steps of natural rubber, and the more serious steps are plasticizing, molding, vulcanization, etc., not only I don't know much about these, but also lack of various machinery and additives.

The idea was good and naïve at first, but now I don't know what to do next, and I can only hope that once the rubber has cooled and solidified, I will be able to make a few items directly......

After turning into liquid, the rubber is not further treated, but is simply put aside with the clay pot to cool, and after a few hours of complete cooling, it becomes solidified again.

When fully solidified, it is not the same as the original tofu, and the hardness at this time is similar to the feel of a tire, but it is slightly softer.

It doesn't seem to be suitable for most plastics, and even just now I naively thought that with natural rubber I could make water pipes, which can be used to ventilate the sea and catch seafood.

Or make a water pipe with a length of several hundred meters, and connect the water directly from the position of the well with a water pipe, so that you don't have to carry water again, which is one thing that I hate in the past two years!

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Unfortunately, after seeing its state now, it is obvious to me that if it is used directly for dietary or water related purposes, it is likely to have a considerable impact on health.

The most serious case is, of course, poisoning because of this, and the consequences of poisoning here are ......, so many expected items have been ruled out by me one by one!

Although I am very unconvinced, the reality is like this, and the result is often not the same as what I expected.

I decided to take a different approach, and I didn't think it would be a problem to use it to make a mattress if I couldn't make most of the items.

Even if it's not as soft as a silicone mattress, it's still much softer than a tire than sleeping on a smooth wooden plank, so I'm willing to try it if it's good!

In the days that followed, I was collecting a lot of natural rubber juice, and all the rubber trees on the island that were more than thigh thick were looted, and the first five trees were visited by me again.

It is estimated that these five trees must hate my frequent visits, but unfortunately they have no means to retaliate against me!

The results in a few days were not bad, and I got more than forty catties in total.

After thinking that the rubber was enough, I began to make the molds needed for the mattress, and such a large area must have a place to shape, otherwise I would not need to use it to make it.

After thinking about it, I finally felt that the ground was the best mold, so I directly leveled a piece of ground with a length of two meters and a width of one meter and a half, and dug it down to a depth of three or four centimeters.

After compaction, it is trimmed to almost complete level, and at this time it looks like an iron plate for dinner!

The next step is to pour the heated liquid rubber juice into it, wait a few hours for it to solidify again, and then remove it from the inside, and then trim it.

The natural solidification is not sufficient, it would be nice to have acid to make it more solidified, and the only sour pineapple that can be thought of will not produce until at least next spring, so let's try it first.

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At this moment, I have to admire my brain, Xingshi took the rubber and came back without any important items, but made a mattress out!

The world is always full of miraculous phenomena, and the liquid that was poured into the clay pot just now turned into a mattress when it was taken out a few hours later.

And the mattress made is even a bit of a latex mattress, although the feel must be countless times harder, but the moment I put it on the bed and lay down on the mat, I know that my hard work for a few days has not been in vain.

The strength of its feedback back is very clear, soft, bouncy, I don't know how comfortable it is compared to the previous flat bed, and the old waist that has been crying pain is finally liberated!

It's just a pity that many of the plastic products that are more needed at this stage can't be made, otherwise it's more than that, and it should be more exciting than getting a mattress!