Section Chief Lu jogged all the way to the Technical Department, found the blueprints for the hot rolling mill, and then ran to Director Gao's office.
"Hey! Section Chief Lu, weren't you with Professor Wu and the others? What are you doing here?"
Looking at Section Chief Lu, who was panting heavily, Director Gao asked in confusion.
"Director Gao... I need to report something."
"Don't panic, calm down first. What happened? Why are you running around like this?"
"I'm fine, Director Gao. You should go check on it quickly. Professor Wu and his team are about to start working on that broken-down hot rolling mill!"
"What are you going to do?"
Factory Director Gao still didn't understand what he meant, and continued to ask.
But then he seemed to realize something and quickly stood up.
"They wouldn't want to repair that machine, would they?"
Seeing that Section Chief Lu nodded, Factory Director Gao waved his hand.
"Let's go take a look together."
The two left the office and jogged all the way to the warehouse.
Upon arriving at the warehouse, Section Chief Lu respectfully handed the blueprints to Professor Wu.
To everyone's surprise, Professor Wu reached out and took it, then handed it to Sun Zhengguo without even looking at it, and started chatting with the newly arrived Factory Director Gao.
Professor Wu's action left everyone present completely bewildered. What was going on?
"Professor Wu, what's going on here?... "
"Oh! Director Gao, it's my student who has an idea. Let him take a look first."
After hearing what Professor Wu said, Director Gao didn't know what else to say.
You can't just ask, "Are your students any good?" That would be too offensive. It's better to wait and see.
Sun Zhengguo took the blueprints and examined them carefully for a while before noticing something amiss.
This machine was provided by Big Brother, who also had ulterior motives. The Russian instructions on it were ambiguous, and several of the internal gears had been tampered with. It was a stripped-down version for export.
This was exactly what Sun Zhengguo had guessed. In his previous life, these foreigners had never been kind. They made money off the Chinese while engaging in underhanded tactics. Imperialism has never given up its desire to destroy us.
Now that we know where the problem lies, the rest is easy to solve. Sun Zhengguo handed the blueprints to Professor Wu and said.
“Mr. Wu, I know where the problem lies. Please come and take a look.”
After Sun Zhengguo said this, apart from Professor Wu and Chen Lianshan, all the other leaders showed expressions of concern for children with intellectual disabilities.
The engineers from the Ministry of Metallurgy spent two or three days studying this problem, but they still couldn't figure it out.
You've only watched for a few minutes and you've already made a discovery? So you're treating us like monkeys?
However, Professor Wu didn't care about their expressions. Instead, he quickly walked up, took the blueprints, and looked at them in the direction Sun Zhengguo was pointing.
The two then spoke quietly for a while. Professor Wu confirmed that Sun Zhengguo had indeed found the problem, and that it was not difficult to solve.
"Brilliant! Zhengguo, how did you discover this problem so well hidden?"
“Professor Wu, as you know, my Russian is very good. The Russian explanation on this drawing gets a bit far-fetched here. I checked the drawing again later and sure enough, I found the problem. These foreign devils are all the same.”
After hearing Sun Zhengguo's explanation, Professor Wu felt a little regretful. Why didn't he want to stay with such a good student?
"So, Professor Wu, have you found the problem?"
Factory Director Gao noticed Professor Wu's excited expression and quickly stepped forward to ask him more questions.
"Don't worry, Director Gao. My student has never let me down. You may not know, but although he hasn't graduated yet, he has already participated in many mechanical modifications and achieved remarkable results."
Professor Wu also took the opportunity to promote Sun Zhengguo, so that they wouldn't look down on him.
"So how should we cooperate from here?"
Seeing the credit laid out before him, Director Gao quickly pressed for details.
"Get your repairmen over here, they'll just have to follow my student's instructions."
"Quickly, quickly, did you hear what Professor Wu said? Section Chief Lu, transfer the entire maintenance team over here."
At Director Gao's command, Section Chief Lu began to call for people, and in no time, several maintenance workers in work clothes arrived.
"You guys, follow the instructions of this technician, Mr. Sun. Do exactly what he tells you to do."
"Don't worry, Factory Manager, I promise to follow your orders."
Once the personnel were in place, Sun Zhengguo didn't stand on ceremony and directed the workers to disassemble the machinery.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and a large pile of parts had been laid out on the felt cloth on the ground, and it looked like they were about to reach the place where the problem would occur.
But then a new problem arose. The machinery had reached the workers' limit by this point, and they didn't know how to proceed with the dismantling.
Seeing the workers' troubled expressions, Sun Zhengguo did not blame them. Instead, he personally picked up his tools and prepared to go on the job.
"Technician Sun, this...?"
Seeing Sun Zhengguo approaching with tools, the maintenance team leader said somewhat embarrassedly.
"I'll do it!"
Sure enough, the decades of repairmanship he had worked as in his previous life finally came in handy.
After Sun Zhengguo took over, the dismantling work sped up considerably, and in another ten minutes, they reached the problem area.
Upon seeing this, Professor Wu and the others quickly gathered around.
Sun Zhengguo gently removed a few gears, swapped them, and then removed an extra gear and tossed it aside. That was how he finished.
"Mr. Wu, I have fulfilled my mission. Please take another look. Are there any other problems?"
With the machine problem solved, Sun Zhengguo put down his tools and said to Professor Wu, who was standing beside him.
"I just saw a few gears being swapped, which should be fine. But why did you throw away the gear next to it?"
"Old Wu, I knew these foreign devils had ill intentions. That gear is redundant; it doesn't serve any purpose and only slows down the machine."
After listening to Sun Zhengguo's explanation, Professor Wu nodded; he believed his student.
The factory leaders standing nearby looked like they'd lost their fathers, their faces long and mournful, but they didn't dare say anything. Anyway, it was a broken machine, so let the two of them mess with it as they pleased!
Sun Zhengguo didn't need to do the work himself. Several workers quickly reassembled the machine, which took about forty minutes. Then they added lubricating oil to the machine, and that was the end of it.
"Gao Changchang, the machine is now repaired. Call your factory electrician to come and connect the power! We need to test it."
"Okay! I'll go right away."
Without the factory manager giving any instructions, Section Chief Lu volunteered and ran off to the scene.
The electrician arrived shortly after and it took another ten minutes to reconnect the power.
Now everything is ready, and we're just waiting to press the switch. Everyone instantly tensed up.
"Open it!"
Upon receiving the instruction, Section Chief Lu carefully pressed the switch.
With a click, the machine slowly started to run, gradually increasing in speed.
"Yay...!"
"Clap clap clap...!"
First came a burst of joyful shouts, followed by applause.
Although the machine has not undergone trial production, everyone knows that it has now been successfully repaired.
After all, everyone knows what state it was in before; it was completely grounded and couldn't be started at all.
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