Li Di's personal product, the American Emperor's small steam engine, was successfully copied under the hard work of Jiang Ye and other people from the machinery factory. Many special parts were hand-made by two fitters, Sun Li and Xiao Gui. The boiler of this steam engine
The size is extremely small, and the design is very clever in many aspects, so the two fitters spent a lot of time thinking.
The size is 30% larger and the power is 25% smaller. Overall, it's basically okay.
"Don't underestimate it. Compared with the pot camel machine we brought, its output efficiency is much higher." Zhou Billy said, "Fortunately, we can imitate it now. If it were a year ago, it would be impossible to imitate it."
In the past year and a half, the machinery factory has continued to add various special equipment to itself, and the work equipment has gradually been equipped. Coupled with continuous production practice, the skill level has improved rapidly. It has also become more and more comfortable to use the tools in its hands.
.We also have a lot of experience in selecting alternative materials.
This small steam engine was quickly finalized and put into mass production, because it is light enough to be equipped with a sampan, and the motorization of this small boat is urgently needed by the Crossing Group. It is not only used for inland river transportation, but also installed on slightly larger boats.
Some of the boats are used as harbor patrol guards.
According to the instructions, the Industrial Energy Commission installed this steam engine on a traffic boat and transformed it into a tugboat. Then, according to Wang Luobin's drawings, a special shallow-draft barge was built. Zhan Wuya was shocked when he saw the drawings.
"Wang Gong, is this a barge?"
"Of course it's a barge."
"I think it's similar to a coffin?" Zhan Wuya said, "It's a little larger in size and has a slightly streamlined shape below the waterline. It's basically a floating coffin!"
In order to reduce the weight of the ship, this kind of small barge is made of riveted iron plates. It looks much thinner than the wooden structure traffic boat, and of course the draft is much shallower.
"That's how it is." Wang Luobin said, "It was invented by the British to transport coal on the canal." Britain was the first country to systematize canals on a large scale. The early canals did not have much water volume and did not have reliable power.
, often a horse is used to pull it, so a large ship cannot move. In some places, the drop is large, and a special ship lift is needed to pull the barge across the drop. Therefore, the barge is not large, and the draft cannot be very deep. A modified
The small tugboat is enough to tow 10 such barges. The load of each barge is about 2.5 tons.
"2.5 tons is not its maximum load capacity. It is a load set with the safe draft in mind. If the channel conditions are better, it will not be a problem to load 4 tons."
However, the draft of this thing is indeed shallow enough to meet the needs of navigation on the Nandu River. A tugboat equipped with a small steam engine can barely pass. Of course, the load of the tugboat must be carefully calculated. The fuel cannot be loaded too much, and it can only meet the one-way need.
Anyway, you can replenish fuel at Haijia Pier, so the problem is not too big.
Zhan Wuya plans to modify four traffic boats as tugboats. Each tugboat can transport 25 tons in a single voyage. Motorized ships are relatively fast and can make two voyages a day. The lignite transported out of Jiazi Mine every day is 200 tons. Plus
After the coal washing plant was put into operation, clean coal was transported out, instead of the original raw coal containing 60% impurities. Calculated inside and outside, the daily transportation volume was increased to a level equivalent to the original transportation volume of 550 tons. Coal Coking Combined Plant
It's enough.
"It is actually impossible to maintain such a large volume of transportation." Zhan Wuya said, "I think the equipment integrity rate of this kind of steam engine will not be so high. After deducting the time for regular maintenance and failure repairs, there will be 3 ships on the route.
Tugboats can do it, but even then the daily transport volume is 150 tons."
"You are too optimistic. If you ask me, if you can maintain two tugboats operating at the same time after half a year of use, your machinery factory's character will explode." Wang Luobin said.
"The small steam engine will definitely be mass-produced in half a year. If it breaks down, just replace it!" Zhan Wuya said enthusiastically, "I just want to drive back the iron ore from Tiandu."
Wang Luobin smiled, his enthusiasm was good, but things were obviously not that simple.
3,000 people landed on a deserted beach. The scale of the operation was even larger than that on D-Day. Moreover, projects had to be carried out in three directions at the same time, so much more materials had to be prepared.
All Lingao's production capacity is operating at full capacity, producing all kinds of materials needed to land in Yulinbao. Only 9,000 sets of work clothes are needed. Originally, Mo Xiaoan planned to manufacture 6,000 sets. In his calculations, each worker would wear
It is enough to wear one set and prepare two more sets. But when reporting the production plan, Ma Qianzhu told him that this number was not enough.
"If you have never done any infrastructure work, you are not wasting clothes, you are eating clothes. Four sets per person is the minimum. And shoes, at least three pairs per person."
"Damn, it's so powerful, the canvas and coarse cloth allocated to me by the Planning Commission are not enough."
"Please tell Guangzhou to purchase another batch." Ma Qianzhu thought of the last call from Guangzhou saying that a local British agent was selling a large quantity of Indian cotton cloth at a very cheap price. Unfortunately, the domestic cloth in stock at that time could not be used up.
He also did not agree to purchase this batch of cloth.
"I wonder if it still exists now." He muttered to himself.
"Commissioner Ma, what did you say?"
"It's nothing," Ma Qianzhu concealed it and said, "Go and do it quickly."
"But I still have an application for additional sewing machines..."
"I approved." Ma Qianzhu glanced at the application, quickly calculated in his mind how much inventory of materials would be consumed, and agreed.
"This is great, but you have to talk to Zhan Wuya and the others and hurry up, otherwise it will be too late to make clothes."
"I know, I know, you go and do your work first, I won't send it away."
After driving Mo Xiaoan out, he quickly called the vehicle factory to ask if the vehicle manufacturing quota issued could be completed on time.
"It's definitely too late," Li Chiqi shouted at the other end of the phone with a straight voice.
The vehicle factory that Li Chiqi is responsible for is extremely busy. The vehicle factory has to produce three different vehicles at the same time, one is a wagon for a simple railway; a mine car used in mining areas; and the last one is a human-powered wheelbarrow
"Purple Electric Reform".
Three types of vehicles were manufactured at the same time, which kept Li Chiqi and Jiang Muzhi busy. Fortunately, the Bao Lei family recruited from Foshan played the role of the backbone of indigenous technology.
As soon as the Bao Lei family came out of the quarantine camp, they were entrusted with important tasks and became the foreman craftsmen of the wheel manufacturing team. The Bao family and his son went from being "like beggars" to having food, clothing and shelter. They were grateful to the "Australian shopkeeper". They started working
He worked extremely hard and quickly manufactured a variety of wheels with different wheel diameters according to the requirements of the vehicle manufacturer.
After seeing their workmanship, Jiang Muzhi felt that the product was quite good. Except for the Bao family and his son's poor grasp of tolerance issues, the quality was perfect. The disadvantage was that the manufacturing speed was too slow.
The Bao family and his son were fascinated by the "Zidian modified" wheelbarrow designed by Chuan Chuan Group. The structure of the wheelbarrow is very simple and easy to build. The Bao family and his son have built many wheelbarrows in the past, but the Australian wheelbarrow can be made so light and easy to push.
It was so flexible and labor-saving, and he had always wanted to find out what the secret was.
In fact, Bao Lei still had some dissatisfaction in his heart. After arriving in Lingao, having no worries about food and clothing certainly made him grateful to the Australians, but the Zidian reform inspired his greed. If only he could know what this kind of trolley is
How can you make it? If you open a workshop at home, you will make a fortune!
But he soon discovered that he was just wishful thinking. Although Bao Lei was poor, he was very proud of his craftsmanship. However, one day he found an excuse to sneak into the assembly workshop and witnessed the assembly process of Zidian modification, and his confidence was completely shaken.
Already.
The craftsman who made the Zidian modification actually used only a few simple iron picks with wooden handles to smoothly assemble the car from a bunch of scattered parts. Bao Lei had built a car himself and knew that a car was
The most time-consuming task is when installing it. You have to constantly adjust various parts. Some places need to be stuffed with wood chips, and some places need to be dismantled and planed with a plane. It takes half a day to install a trolley smoothly.
Now, this craftsman installed more than 20 cars in less than half an hour. Each car was completed at one time, which shocked him too much. There were dozens of cars, and the parts of each car were exactly the same size! Australia
He is indeed a skilled craftsman! From then on, in addition to his fear of his employer, he also had respect for his colleagues.
Finally, when he saw the rolling bearing plate on the wheelbarrow axle, Bao Lei knew that he would never be able to imitate Zidian Kai in his life. Even the crudest imitation was wishful thinking - there might be many skilled craftsmen in Ming Dynasty who could
He has the ability to make iron into small round beads and put them into round boxes, but he will never be able to purchase such round boxes in batches and put them on a trolley - if so, no one can buy his imitation trolleys.
Started.
Since then, Bao Lei has been completely devoted to the Australians. He works hard and no longer hides his craftsmanship. He is more enthusiastic about helping others and teaching apprentices - he knows this about himself.
Compared with Australians, their craftsmanship is nothing.
After the machinery factory found the information and built several special wheel-making machines for the vehicle factory, Bao Lei became very afraid of this powerful machine that could knead hardwood like noodles. He knew very well about this kind of machine.
Machines can completely replace your craftsmanship - and do it better.
For this reason, he worked harder than other craftsmen to learn to use it, and soon became the most proficient worker in wheel-making equipment. His younger son Bao Bohong's skills also improved rapidly.
"It seems that traditional craftsmen are fully able to accept new technologies." Li Chiqi said.
Jiang Muzhi sneered: "Humph, he is working for us because he is an extremely poor household. If he had his own workshop, do you think he would be willing?"