RPAGF #124 - T68 boring machine was put into production
#124 - T68 boring machine was put into production
After settling the metallurgy and basic chemical plants, Ren Zhong shifted his focus to the production of machine tools. The 6140 lathe, as a universal industrial mother machine, had been continuously copied by Ren Zhong. There are now two in Yang Village, one in the arsenal of the base headquarters, and the fourth will be in the branch factory in Nangou, where the pattern making stage for castings has already begun.
This lathe will be the main machine tool throughout the 1940s. In the coming months, it will blossom everywhere in the border area, becoming the number one mechanical processing force for the border area's research institutions!
Next, Ren Zhong needs to solve the problem of the versatile boring machine. Boring machines are universal and versatile, suitable for processing small and medium-sized parts with high precision or precise hole distances. They can bore, drill, enlarge, ream, and mill planes, as well as cut internal threads.
If these abstract concepts are not clear enough, then two uses will illustrate its importance. The world's first true boring machine was invented by Wilkinson in 1775. In fact, Wilkinson's boring machine was a kind of drilling machine that could precisely process cannons. It was a hollow cylindrical boring bar, with both ends mounted on bearings.
Whether it is producing cannon barrels or seamless steel pipes in the future, Ren Zhong cannot avoid the development of boring machines.
The second use is that boring machines are essential for manufacturing steam engines, as well as the cylinders and pistons of diesel and gasoline engines.
These two uses will be an important cornerstone for Ren Zhong to carry out further industrial development. The future production of mechanized moving products such as automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, and even tanks will require the development of boring machines.
Ren Zhong found the best boring machine to copy in the main world, the T68 horizontal boring machine. This machine, known as the first boring machine of New China, is very well-known. Because of its widespread influence, Ren Zhong found its complete design data without much effort, including core data such as electrical design drawings.
This means that this boring machine holds no secrets for Ren Zhong. According to the design drawings, Ren Zhong still had the Chengxin Machinery Processing Factory complete the production and processing of the core key components first. These old-fashioned things were nothing for the two eighth-grade fitters, and they completed these components in less than a week.
Including the processing of the electrical part, these simple circuits were easily handled by the two fitters looking at the drawings. Ren Zhong asked slightly, only to find out that these two eighth-grade fitters had experience in repairing this boring machine!
It turns out that he met "old acquaintances" again.
With the help of the three eighth-grade fitters in Jincheng, Ren Zhong has not encountered any technical bottlenecks in copying these ancient machine tools.
The more troublesome thing is the two-speed motor and the fast-moving motor, so Ren Zhong still honestly copied the core parts of the motor from the main world and then brought them to the Liangjian world to assemble.
After all, in terms of casting production, Yang Village has already begun to have the first batch of skilled workers, who can make casting models much faster than before.
Once you learn this thing, you become a skilled worker. It is completely different from the first time you stumbled and had to rework. The production rhythm can be maximized, and coupled with the fact that people in this era are all consciously and voluntarily adopting a 007 work rhythm, no one works less than 12 hours a day!
Usually, they have to work 18 hours before they are forced to rest.
Especially in Yang Village, where Li Yunlong is supervising.
In Nangou, Ren Zhong has more than 20 qualified toolmen, with a large number of people who can solve various problems for the workers. The engineering rhythm and work saturation are all maximized.
The 6140 lathe and the T68 machine tool are both being cast at the same time. For the manual punching machine, Yang Village is now producing them and sending them to Nangou, so that Nangou's bullet production factory can be opened up first.
Every day, half of Ren Zhong's goods now need to bring in zinc, and the pure copper produced in Nangou is directly refined into brass, without waiting for the copper liquid to solidify and then reheat it, which can also save smelting time.
Day after day of hard work finally bore fruit a month later. All the castings of the boring machine were successfully cast. For this new type of machine tool, Gao Kaiming brought several close disciples from Yang Village from afar, preparing to witness the birth of the first boring machine.
"Xiao Yun, is the motor assembled and tested?" Ren Zhong was also a little excited. Early in the morning, he brought all the people in the chemical class who were not on duty, preparing to let them all witness the assembly of the boring machine, to have a valuable practical experience.
Among them, the motor is a component combined from two worlds. Permanent magnets, silicon steel sheets, coils, etc. are brought from the main world, but the motor housing and other parts of the casting are produced in the Liangjian world.
Xiao Yun is the most knowledgeable in this class, an intellectual with two years of college experience. Ren Zhong entrusted him with important tasks and is the leader of the chemical class, but Ren Zhong has been training and guiding Xiao Yun in many ways.
Assembling the motor is an opportunity for Ren Zhong to give Xiao Yun a try.
"Mr. Ren, it's assembled, and the test is all good!" Xiao Yun was even more excited.
Today, they will witness new history again. In the past month, these students have been completely convinced by Ren Zhong. Many things that are regarded as miracles by outsiders have been completed with their participation!
Even now, most of them still don't understand the principles involved, but how to achieve all this, everyone has recorded dense study notes and experiences. According to their current learning status, they can all be the main force in the construction supervision and guidance of the sulfuric acid production line and the steel smelting production line.
Now the knowledge of machinery they are learning is purely free, so everyone's learning enthusiasm is more than enough.
"Boss Ren, I should come to Heyuan to learn more from you," Gao Kaiming looked at the pile of spare parts in front of him. Even though most of them were unfamiliar things, it still couldn't stop his enthusiasm in this regard. "Our factory used to have a boring machine, but the control was very strict. The workers who used the boring machine were strictly separated.
Even those workers who used the boring machine, it is difficult to say what the boring machine looks like, let alone know the internal structure. When this thing is repaired, the foreign devils have to lock the door and not let everyone see it."
Gao Kaiming used to be in the arsenal, and the use and management of various equipment were naturally very strict. These important equipment still have confidentiality value even now.
So even though Gao Kaiming worked as a workshop director, it is normal that he has not seen a boring machine. In other arsenals, each link is relatively closed, just afraid that the technology will be spread out.
"That won't work. Your work is also very important." Ren Zhong shook his head. Yang Village is a big industry, and it won't work if there is no leading figure to drive the mechanical processing.
The key now is to stimulate their enthusiasm.
"Both of us are very important. With the support of Engineer Gao in Yang Village, the weekly production capacity of guns and ammunition has doubled. These are all things that the troops urgently need, and we have to serve them well there." Ren Zhong rejected Gao Kaiming's idea.
"However, if I come over for a few days every month to learn some new things from you in advance, I think it is still meaningful."
Ren Zhong rejected Gao Kaiming, but he didn't completely reject it.
For example, at this moment, Gao Kaiming and the others have the opportunity to come here to learn how to assemble a new boring machine on site.
Taking these experiences out, they will be able to boast about it for a lifetime!
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