Chapter 50 Freshwater Gun

The excitement in the shooting is no worse than that in the cannon, and the noise is much more than that in the cannon. The shed here is also built with wooden trusses. The interior is raised to more than five meters, and there are large windows on all sides to improve the ventilation and light in the shed.

Even if it is only early spring and the weather is still a little chilly, it is still very hot in the shed.

There are dozens of stoves built in a row in the shed. Next to each furnace, there is an anvil and an iron workbench. In addition, next to the workbench, there are shelves with different styles, which are specially placed for raw materials and finished products.

On each workbench, there are special tooling fixtures or molds. Next to each stove, there is also a craftsman and two apprentices who are busy knocking.

The gun work has now completely adopted the standardized assembly line operation method and is divided into several areas. The front area is specially responsible for processing large pieces of iron into coarse materials of different sizes and shapes, and then distribute them to the next working area according to the approximate shape required by the parts made by craftsmen. It is used directly by the next craftsman.

And most of the craftsmen in this area are not very good craftsmen, or simply use apprentices. Anyway, they just open large materials into various small materials without too high technology.

The next work area is to enter the parts processing area. Craftsmen use the materials used in their respective workbenches to start building parts according to their different divisions of labor, but they do not need to completely make the materials into products. They only need to make basic * parts and hand them over to the next. The craftsmen in the process are trimming, polishing or drilling.

The latter workspace is responsible for the finished parts. They put the rough parts created in the previous process on special fixtures for detailed repair and polishing or drilling. For this reason, they all have standardized parts fixtures and molds in their hands to ensure that the repaired parts meet the requirements of final assembly. Control the tolerance in the best possible state.

The last working area is the working area where the finished product is produced. After being built everywhere, and the qualified parts are sent to this work area. The craftsmen here begin to assemble various parts and finally make them into the finished products for verification. The qualified products enter the warehouse and seal the box, etc. The director's hall will be allocated equipment for use.

Of course, gunmaking is the same as gunfire. It should be attached to a woodworking workshop, which is responsible for manufacturing wooden butts for guns, while the woodworking workshop on the other side of gunfire is responsible for manufacturing various gun racks and gun trucks for artillery. In contrast, the production of the woodworking workshop here is simpler, and of course, it is still the same. It is a standardized production, from opening to opening, polishing, polishing, and even final painting, it is the responsibility of a special person.

In addition, the production quantity of some fragile spare parts should exceed the production quantity of other accessories, especially the barrel, and be stored in the finished product warehouse and allocated to various places for backup. Once the gun parts are damaged, the parts can be repaired as soon as possible.

Behind each work area, there is a full-time inspector to be responsible for the inspection of the parts created by the craftsmen in this process, and to put numbers on the parts in case there is a quality problem in the future, which can be directly pursued by the craftsman responsible for production, which is a responsibility reversal system.

And now with the literacy activities of sea wolves, many sea wolves, especially craftsmen, have learned practical and commonly used words, and also learned Arabic numerals, so that the inscriptions of such gun parts have adopted Arabic numerals.

The gun production of sea wolf does not belong to the work of a craftsman, but is a product formed by the wisdom and efforts of many craftsmen. It does not pursue gorgeous decoration, but only pursues practicality and simple production to improve production efficiency. Therefore, the guns produced by sea wolf guns are simple and unpretentious on the surface, but the quality is quite Yes, it is far more than the birds made by the land craftsmen of Daming in this era.

Moreover, the gun attaches great importance to standardized production, and specially creates various fixtures and molds. During the inspection, there are also molds specially used to clamp parts. As long as the parts are put into the mold, you can immediately see whether the part meets the required tolerance, completely abandoning the method of human visual inspection, so that The product quality is better guaranteed.

In addition, in order to improve efficiency and the processing accuracy of parts, gun manufacturing also attaches great importance to the development of some special machinery to assist production and replace manual production. Although these machines are human machinery, which are also very simple and simple, they are still faster than the original pure manual work, and the processing of parts is more accurate.

Now, for example, in the production of barrels, manual drilling machine tools and boring machines have been used, so that a craftsman can only build three or four barrels a month. Up to now, each barrel craftsman can build one almost every day in a month, and then a person is responsible for drilling and boring the barrel, production efficiency. Several times or even ten times the previous output, and the quality is guaranteed, and the waste rate has been gradually reduced. Now the yield of the barrel has reached more than 60%. The best craftsmen can increase the yield of the barrel to about 80%. In addition to saving a lot of labor, it also reduces the waste of raw materials.

So the current freshwater shooting is more reasonable in layout and more efficient than that of Nanri Island.

Unfortunately, at present, the number of skilled craftsmen who build gun barrels is still a little less, which makes the production of gun production a bottleneck. Every month, the production of gun production in the two places has been temporarily hovering within 120 short rifles for sailors, 100 standard tlock rifles for war battalions, and 200 double-brun short rifles, which cannot be protruded for the time being. Break this quantity.

If this group of apprentices can be apprenticed as soon as possible, the next * production of the sea wolf will get a greater breakthrough. If the output of 500 can be reached in a month, Yu Xiaotian will no longer have to worry about the fact that his subordinates can't have a large amount of equipment*.

Zhang Blacksmith is now dedicated to the work of freshwater guns. In addition to checking production in various workshop areas every day, he also has to extract guns from the finished products for inspection every day. In addition, he also has to think about developing new fixtures, tooling, molds and simple manual machinery.

It can be said that Zhang's blacksmith is so busy that he basically lives in the shooting at night, but Fortunately, this guy is a workaholic and doesn't care about it. Instead, he is happy about it. On the contrary, he is happy with the current life.

Although there are relatively few kinds of products on the other side, there are many jobs that can be improved. Now blacksmith Zhang's interest is shifting. In the past, he focused more on developing new guns, but now he has begun to use more and more in the workshop. After manual machinery, he began to turn his interest to develop some new manual machinery. Every day, he was thinking about how to create some machinery and replace some manual production that is not easy to control precision with simple machinery for production.

This can be said to be the credit of Yu Xiaotian. He completely brought Zhang Blacksmith to a new realm and became a fanatical mechanical fan.

When Yu Xiaotian came over this time, Zhang Blacksmith was taking some apprentices to work on a newly improved manual machine for drilling. Compared with the previous machine, he improved the fixture and drill bit to make it more convenient and faster to drill the gun.

In this era, machinery is still in its infancy. Various lathes have not yet been invented. Even if there are, they are all in the most primitive state, and the power is limited to hydraulic and animal power and manpower. Proto-motivators such as steam engines and internal combustion engines or electric motors have not yet been invented.

And a lot of work basically depends on craftsmen to make it all by hand, such as a nail and a screw, all of which are made by manpower.

Even if there is a mother machine such as lathes now, everything is not necessarily all right. These lathes can produce other machinery, but if they are used to specialize in the production of some small things, they may not be much more efficient than manual work. Lathes can completely make screws, but if you want to use lathes to produce screws, then But the cost is too high, and the efficiency is as low as handmade!

When producing screws or sewing needles, nails and other items in later generations, special machinery is not ordinary lathes, so future generations will have the concept of standard parts. Special factories use professional mechanical lathes according to standards to produce all kinds of common standard parts and supply various jobs. Useable.

In fact, the mechanized production of later generations only subdivides industrial production, and the development of society is the same, which is the result of the gradual refinement of social division of labor, far surpassing the ancient social division of labor.

Now Yu Xiaotian wants to expand his industrial production capacity, so he has to gradually refine the division of labor among his people, and such a factory as shooting is the product of this idea. In the next step, in other farms, more and more this method will be used to promote it.

How's it going? Isn't it more convenient for you to change this drilling machine? Yu Xiaotian didn't let people inform Zhang of the busy blacksmith, and went directly to Zhang's back.

At this moment, Zhang Blacksmith was absorbed in the things at hand. He didn't hear Yu Xiaotian's voice and said impatiently, "Don't bother me. You go! I'm busy with mine. Don't delay my business!"

"Bold! Lao Zhang, don't look who's here! How dare you do this..." Liu Wang, who followed Yu Xiaotian, immediately stared at Zhang Blacksmith, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yu Xiaotian and stared at him, so he swallowed the rest of the words.