Chapter 67 Make a Wedding Dress

[67] Make a wedding dress

Yao Fan said to Xu Jianyin, "In my opinion, let's go to the power workshop!"

"I heard from Mr. Lawrence, my business partner in the United States, that when the United States holds the World Expo in Philadelphia next year, 1876, it will plan to use a 600-ton Coolis steam engine to drive the generator, transmit electricity to all venues through cables, and then drive it through motors in various venues. Thousands of machines! At that time, US President Grant and King Pedro II of Brazil will be invited to start this total power source!"

Xu Jianyin was envious and asked, "Brother Yao! The 600-ton Coleus steam engine weighs 1.2 million pounds?

"Exact."

"What a big hand! Brother Yao, do you know how much horsepower the huge thing is?

"1400 horsepower!"

"Ah..." Xu Jianyin shouted out.

"Brother Yao... Our factory doesn't need such a big horsepower... Brother Yao, please have a look. This is the list I plan to purchase."

With that, Xu Jianyin quickly opened the drawings of the machine bureau he planned from the table and said to Yao Fan according to the procurement list:

"Brother Yao, you see, I plan to put a belt lathe here in the workshop, using a general model, which can be drilled or boring after replacing the components... I calculated that behind the lathe, a 5-horsepower steam engine can be brought up... Look, this is a chimney, and I plan to open a small door here, cinder After coming out, the workshop can be launched from the small door... The plan here is to put a hand rocking arm lathe, which can be connected to the belt and driven by a small steam engine..."

After being shocked by Yao Fan's inside information, Xu Jianyin has regarded Yao Fan as an insider and revealed his plan.

Yao Fan looked at this plan and found that it was exactly the same as the plan of Shandong Machinery Bureau in history.

"Lao Xu." Yao Fan is close.

"Brother Yao said it bluntly." Xu Jianyin agreed flatteredly.

Brother Xu, you should know that the electricity generated by the generator driven by the steam engine can be stored in the Volt battery. But since 1873, at the Vina World Expo in Austria, scientists inadvertently connected the volt battery to the generator and found that the electricity in the battery could actually drive the generator and make the generator into an electric motor. The world has begun to move from the mud of steam power to electricity. The smooth road has been made.

In the future, not to mention small steam engine-driven lathes, even large steam engine-driven power workshops will also become outdated, and the world trend will turn to the power era.

At this time, the factory you designed does not even have a power workshop, but is directly driven by a small steam engine in the workshop, which is too far behind the world.

Have you ever thought about how bad the working environment in the workshop will be? There are few workers and poor level of machine tools in the Qing Dynasty. If they are not worthy of a good working environment and excellent equipment, how can they ensure product quality?

Yao Fan's words made Xu Jianyin also sigh.

"Oh, Brother Yao, I can't help it. I haven't seen the motor you mentioned!

To take a step back, even if you adopt the design of setting up the power workshop independently as you mentioned, it will cost a lot of money. Although Lord Ding fully supports the construction of Shandong Machinery Bureau, at present, he can only allocate 94,000 taels of treasury silver, 72800 taels of grain treasury silver, and 20,000 taels of Linqing tariff silver, a total of 186,800 taels of silver.

With this money, only setting up a coal mine and carrying out civil construction of factories will cost half of these two items, leaving less than 100,000 taels of silver. How can we afford to build a power workshop? I'm afraid that the price of a high-horsepower steam engine can't be taken down without tens of thousands of taels of silver, right?

Besides, I don't understand the transmission design of the power workshop! I haven't even seen a large-scale factory building for foreigners! As for how to walk the power shaft on the roof of the workshop? How to connect the belt? I have never seen any of these! I used to be in Anqing Inner Ordnance Station, and I saw that it was all a machine with a bed.

The bitterness and helplessness in Xu Jianyin's heart touched Yao Fan's heart. How he hoped that China, even China represented by such a ignorant and backward Qing Dynasty, could establish advanced factories and mines and raise its eyebrows in the world.

"Brother Xu, how much money can you take out to buy the machine?" Yao Fan asked.

"100,000...No! 110,000 taels!" Xu Jianyin gritted his teeth.

"Good! I will buy it for you according to 110,000 taels. You just need to pay a deposit of 50,000 taels first, and the rest is on me.

In Yao Fan's future plan, he put the Shandong Machinery Bureau in the position of a wedding dress, but did Yao Fan make a wedding dress for the Qing Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty marry Yao Fan?

"Brother Xu, let me tell you about my plan." With that, Yao Fan took out a pen, pulled a piece of white paper on the table and drew it.

"You see, here, a thermal power plant is built next to the coal mine... install a boiler... drive a steam engine... drive a DC generator... Because the steam engine drives the generator, there will be unstable current, and there will be about a dozen amperes of ups ups and downs... Here is a rectifier and voltage regulator circuit... Of course , I can also give you a generator with an excitation system to directly stabilize the voltage... Well, forget it, this is too advanced... connect the cable to attract it... After entering the factory, drive the machine tool..."

"Brother Yao! Do you really think you can buy this many equipment with 110,000 taels of silver? According to your plan, all the machine tools in the factory are electric? Xu Jianyin was surprised.

Yao Fan is full of bad water. He is completely operating this Shandong Machinery Bureau project as a power station. In the future, once he rises, as long as he takes this power station, it will be like a tiger.

In history, a power plant appeared in Shanghai in 1882. It is a British enterprise called Electro-optic Company. The company started as a horizontal boiler with a 16 horsepower steam engine and a DC generator of 800 revolutions per minute, which can light 40 arc lights.

"Well, I can't guarantee that the machine tools in the factory are electric, some of which are manual, but I guarantee that the quality is excellent.

For example, the pedal punching machine, which is used to stamp the iron cap behind the bullet, for you, the pedal is fine... I will give you a manual bench lever press, equipped with a mold, use human pressure lever, and roll the copper leather bullet shell should be no problem... Add a hand-cranked drilling machine to drill teeth, tapping holes, and handle gun barrel. ...The quality of steel in the Qing Dynasty is poor. Although it is easy to drill in, be careful not to crack the steel bar..." Yao Fan muttered.

"Brother Yao! Brother Yao! You are all hands and feet, so what's the use of building a power plant? Xu Jianyin was stupid when he heard it.

"Well... I'll give you an electric drive manual grinder, an electric drive manual turret milling machine, and an electric drive manual boring machine. These are electrical, as long as you control the speed. Of course, the wavy lines of low-level workers in processing are inevitable, but it should be better if you spray cold water to cool down... You can think about the heat treatment process of the workpiece before processing. Without this step, it will be difficult to process... Heat treatment... This is a business secret, so we won't mention it... Copper plating on the inner wall of the barrel... This It's too advanced, and the powers have not adopted it yet, so don't consider it... The choice of river line... You'd better continue to imitate Henry Matini's inner seven corners. In fact, it's not difficult to process it. It's less than half a circle of broken things in total. Just control the process and time of entering the knife..."

Xu Jianyin heard it in the clouds, but from the words in Yao Fan's words, he can deeply feel that this person is simply a professional in mechanical processing!

"Brother Yao! Do these really only cost 110,000 taels of silver? Xu Jianyin asked in constersment.

"If it's not enough, I'll post it! As long as you can help Lord Ding run the factory, the money is a bird!" Yao Fan vowed to say.

In fact, the price of the manpower machine tool just reported by Yao Fan is only a few thousand yuan, and the electric machine is only more than 10,000 yuan. Even with other steam engines, generators and boiler equipment, where can 110,000 silver be used? Ya's heart is too dark.

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