Not 100% of the families in Xiaoshutun participated in the hat-making program, and some families did not participate.
The families who did not participate had their own reasons. Some thought that hat making was not profitable and they wanted to observe the situation. Some families had their main labor force engaged in other services and could not spare any manpower.
Therefore, only about half of the families in Xiaoshutun are involved in hat making, and Xu Jingmin's family is the first family to enter this industry. When their products accumulate to a certain specification, they take them to the market to sell.
In the past, Xu Jingmin, who was on night shift, would collect the goods and sell them at the market, or the team would collect them together and sell them at the market. Now that Xu Bin was on vacation, it was naturally his turn.
It’s just that the styles of hats they make are too monotonous. They are either traditional hats or the sun hats that only a few girls wear.
Wan Feng took a pen and started drawing various hats for Xu Bin to see. Young people accept new things quickly.
"This is a beret, this is a peaked hat, this is a baseball cap, this is a bowler hat. I'm not going to include other hats here, but I don't think the market for them is huge. Of these, I'm focusing on the baseball cap, which will be a huge seller. The styles are limited to this, but there are countless combinations of colors and patterns, so it's up to you to research."
Xu Bin looked at the style of the baseball cap and was a little confused: "Will this kind of hat look good on me?"
"Why don't you make one and wear it and know? Do you know how to cut a hat?"
Xu Bin nodded.
Cutting a hat is much simpler than cutting clothes. Following Wan Feng's instructions, Xu Bin took two pieces of red and black cloth, quickly cut out the pattern, and then sewed it on the sewing machine.
After all, he was a young man, and it took Xu Bin just over ten minutes to make a red and black baseball cap.
Although it looked novel when worn on his head, Xu Bin didn't think it was very nice.
A new thing always needs an adaptation process, and it will only be accepted after people have adapted to it.
"This kind of hat can have a pattern applied to it. You can use the embroidery pattern your mother used to make. Sewing one on will really add to the look."
“Will this sell?”
"How much does your family sell an ordinary hat for at the market?"
"If you buy individually, it's one dollar apiece. If you buy in bulk, it's eighty cents. If you sell it for eighty cents, you make ten cents."
"Make a few hats like this, choose the colors you like, and then sell them at the market. You can sell them for 1.7 or 1.8 yuan retail, or 1.3 or 1.4 yuan wholesale."
Xu Bin was a little dumbfounded: "Just changing the style and color can double the money?"
"Just try selling them and you'll know! Hats are such a niche business. You should start with that and then expand into other industries once you've built up enough wealth."
“What industries can it be extended to?”
There are many things. For example, something related to hat making can be used to make bras, something related to the head can be used to make helmets, something related to fabric can be used to make underwear...
Wan Feng gave a brief explanation, and when Xu Bin found out what the bra was used for, his face actually blushed a little.
Xu Bin is fifteen years old, and it is also the age when he is beginning to fall in love.
"You can study it slowly at home. I'm going to visit your team headquarters."
Wan Feng came out of Xu Bin's house and was about to walk to the road at the edge of the village when Xu Meilin came out of the garment factory gate with an empty lunch box in her hand.
"Has your dad finished his meal?"
"Well! Brother Feng, can I work in your factory in the future?"
"You're useless. Study hard and get into college. What's the future of working here?"
"Ah! No future? I think it's pretty good."
Wan Feng patted Xu Meilin on the head and said, "You are still young. You will understand in two years. Go home."
Walk south along the cement road for a hundred meters, and the courtyard on the left is the team headquarters of Xiaoshutun, but the east wing seems to be higher!
The last two times Wan Feng passed by here, he didn’t notice the changes here, also because the west wing blocked his view.
Only now did he realize that the east wing had obviously been rebuilt. This time the house became much taller than before and was already a small two-story building.
Is a thousand-ton stamping press this big?
Wan Feng had only seen this thing before, and he wasn't very clear about its specific composition and operation.
Only when we walked into the flip-top workshop did we discover that the machine was actually taller than a person, about two and a half meters high, and more than ten meters long, consisting of several machines.
This is a purely mechanical stamping equipment. The whole set of equipment includes several machines, including feeders, presses, cutting machines, etc.
This set of equipment is mainly used to produce various stamping parts for three-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles, such as the four-wheeled hood, the two driving wheel fenders commonly known as wings, and the three-wheeled vehicle cab shell and instrument panel bracket.
The materials used for these stamped parts are mostly 0.5 to 0.8 mm steel plates. After being stamped with a fixed mold and then welded and painted, they can be taken to the machinery factory for assembly.
In the past, machinery factories either relied on manual labor by fitters or outsourced production. Not only was the progress slow, but a lot of money was also lost to outsiders.
Now the brigade’s investment has filled this gap.
The machines have been debugged and the molds have been made, and experimental work is being carried out today.
Zhang Hai was also here. When he saw Wan Feng coming, he waved to him.
Wan Feng came to Zhang Hai and watched the machine working from a few meters away.
A small piece of steel plate was sent under the press. The machine started running, and after a bang, it was sent from under the press to under the cutting machine. With a click, a stamped part came out.
When the stamped part came off the machine, Wan Feng could see clearly that it was the front face of a four-wheel tractor, stamped and formed in one go.
"This thing is amazing. It was made in seconds." Zhang Hai looked at the stamped part without any hesitation.
There are still metal burrs on the edges of the stamped parts that have just come off the press, but he is not afraid of getting his hands pricked.
This stamped part still needs to be polished, welded and then painted to be completed.
"How much money can we make from this piece?" Zhang Hai asked Wan Feng.
Wan Feng shook his head: "You should go to the machinery factory and negotiate with them on this issue to see how much they can offer."
"This is unreasonable. We should have the final say on this."
Zhang Hai is now starting to act in a disloyal way.
"This has nothing to do with me. I have no say. You have to find Xiao Dexiang."
Wan Feng can't do anything about this. You have to do the cost accounting yourselves, and then the machinery factory will give you a purchase price. If you think it is profitable, then do it. If it is not profitable, then don't do it.
"That's easy to say. I invested thirty or forty thousand dollars in this machine, and you just say you don't want to do it anymore? Do you believe I'll cut you?"
"It's no use trying to cut me. I'm only there to give you guidance. I don't even care about the specific steps. Why didn't you come to me when your wife wanted a child?"
"Hey, you idiot, I'm going to... stop running!"
Why not run?
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