Chapter 1007 Non-mandatory Task
"I don't care. Anyway, I have given you the task. How you do it is up to you. I want the tractor."
Luo Chong's words almost made Lin Fei jump in anxiety, but he calmed the director again with the next sentence.
"But you don't have to worry. This task is not mandatory. My bottom line is that you must produce at least four more tractors before April 1st. If you produce less than four, it means that you are not doing your job seriously, and I will punish you.
"If you can produce ten tractors, all workers and researchers involved in the project will receive an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus; if you produce twenty tractors, you will receive a two-month salary year-end bonus. Those who are active and contribute to the team will be given priority when selecting officials when a new factory is opened in the south two years later. "
The bottom line, rewards, and a bright future have all been given. As for how far they can achieve, that depends on themselves.
After hearing this, Lin Fei was no longer anxious, but full of fighting spirit. He did not care about officials or anything like that, because he had already done the best. He was the director of one of the only two central research institutes in the Han tribe. Although he did not manage as many people as those county governors, his status was no worse than those county governors. It's just that the country has not yet been established, and the ranks of officials in various units are still unclear, so it is difficult to compare them.
But Lin Fei cares about the year-end bonus of two months' salary, which is not a small amount of money.
"Is that so? Then there's no problem. If we tell the researchers and workers this news, they will definitely work hard. But chief, the time is still a bit tight. Even if everyone works overtime, we can only produce ten vehicles at most. Twenty vehicles is absolutely impossible. "Lin Fei said, calculating the time quickly in his mind.
"Well, let me add one more sentence. At least four vehicles must be delivered before the end of March. Ten vehicles will be better. The remaining ten vehicles must be delivered before New Year's Day. It must not be delayed until the beginning of spring. After the beginning of spring, how can we farm?" Luo Chong explained as he led them to the workshop.
"If that's the case, it's still very difficult, but it's worth a challenge. Twenty vehicles may not be able to be built, but if everyone works hard, more than ten vehicles are not impossible. However, in this case, we have to finalize it as soon as possible, otherwise how can we mass-produce it?" Lin Fei said after thinking for a while.
"I know, I came here today to finalize the tractor. Didn't you say it's almost perfect? Then drive it out for a test drive and we'll finalize it today." Luo Chong said straightforwardly.
"Okay, I'll arrange for the warm-up to start, and we'll introduce the situation to the leader while we're warming up the car. "Lin Fei was delighted when he heard that. He clasped his fists to Luo Chong and immediately ran into the workshop quickly.
Luo Chong led everyone to walk slowly into the workshop. On the way, he said to Yang Dashan beside him.
"Watch carefully and learn well. The rice transplanter is your starting point, not your end point. With your intelligence and talent, you will definitely learn more here, create more value for the tribe, and serve the tribe. "
"Yeah. "Yang Dashan nodded solemnly, and then followed the leader's steps into the huge new workshop.
The new workshop for the development of tractors is a factory built of reinforced concrete. The materials are all produced by themselves, which is very convenient. In addition, the reinforced concrete factory has another advantage, that is, it can be built high enough, so that a lot of heavy lifting equipment can be installed in the workshop, especially for the development of heavy machinery such as excavators and tractors, lifting equipment is too important.
Another advantage is that it is strong enough and not afraid of water and fire. Those workshops with wooden beams are very afraid of fire.
The huge workshop immediately made Yang Dashan's eyes light up. There were huge and ferocious steel machines everywhere. The large lathes that were several meters long were enough to cut out complete axles. The large hydraulic rods used on those engineering vehicles were also cut out of this lathe. The ground was paved with rails for transporting heavy equipment, and there were huge steel gantry cranes above their heads.
As far as the eye could see, the entire workshop was divided into four larger teams, and everyone was surrounding three strangely shaped and huge "vehicles" Busy, the tractor has been basically completed, and it is just short of testing and finalization. The loader has completed the main body, all hydraulic systems, power systems, control systems, and buckets have been installed. Just like the previous tractor, the cab has no shed and is still in the open air, but it can be used for some experiments.
The excavator already has a body, and the huge mechanical arm has not been installed yet. The whole vehicle is still hoisted, and everyone is installing the track. The road roller is the least complete one, because everyone plans to use the experience of the loader platform to manufacture the road roller when the loader body is almost completed.
Yang Dashan was stunned. He didn't expect that the work of the Power Research Institute was so great. The scene in front of him was so advanced that it seemed like another world in his eyes. Compared with the shipyard where he used to work, it was like heaven and earth.
Although the products of the shipyard look bigger and more shocking, in terms of advancement and complexity, they are far less shocking than the scenes in the institute.
"This is a tractor, four-wheeled. The front is a steam boiler, which is the power system. Under the cab is a hydraulic system, which is also the transmission system. The whole vehicle is powered by a steam engine, but it is pushed by hydraulics. In the middle is the cab, which can seat two people, a driver and a boiler operator, who is responsible for operating and maintaining the boiler.
"The back is where agricultural machinery is mounted. The tractor is just like a cow. It can be used to tow vehicles or agricultural machinery. Depending on the needs, you can choose to mount various agricultural machinery, rotary tillers, and seeders at the back. In the future, your rice transplanter will also be mounted at the back. However, I hope that the rice transplanter mounted at the back can plant twenty rows of rice at a time. Take a good look and see if there are any ideas."
Luo Chong led Yang Dashan to the front of the tractor, led him around in a circle, introduced it to him, and proposed the task he had given him.
Yang Dashan was excited to see the tractor, and Luo Chong was also observing the changes in the tractor in the past half month.
The front of the vehicle is no longer a hideous machine exposed to the air. It is covered with a square-shaped but rounded hood, which covers the main body of the steam engine. However, it can still be opened for easy maintenance.
The cab is no longer open-top. It has a roof and doors, and glass windows are installed on all four sides. However, it is not the kind of curved glass. The Han tribe can make curved glass, but it is expensive and requires a new mold. The quality is not up to standard. If it is placed on a fixed building, it can still be tried, but the tractor is an engineering machinery. When off-roading and starting, the vehicle vibrates very violently, and the curved glass may be shattered if it is not handled properly. Therefore, Luo Chong chose flat glass.
There is a half-square glass window at the back. This is a fixed window that cannot be opened, but the driver can see the status of the agricultural machinery behind through this window.
There are also glass windows on the doors on both sides of the cab, and they can be opened, but they are not the kind that can be raised and lowered by hand. Instead, they are divided into two pieces of glass on the left and right. Both pieces of glass can be pushed and pulled left and right in the window frame, and the maximum area of the window can only be opened halfway.
This is a very backward design, but it is the most suitable design for this era. Even so, it has experienced a failure. Later, after the improvement of the plan, this small detail passed the test smoothly.
Unlike the front and rear windshields, the front and rear windshields are fixed. If you want to install glass windows, you only need to do two things. First, make the glass thicker and stronger, and there should not be a tiny bubble, otherwise it will easily crack; second, the installation should be done better, and there should be a waterproof and windproof buffer. In this regard, they adopted Luo Chong's opinion and used rubber sealing tape to solve it.
Because rubber is elastic, it can be windproof and waterproof, and has a buffering effect.
The glass windows on the doors on both sides are different. They are movable. If they are too tight, they are easy to shatter. If they are too loose, they are also easy to shatter. At the beginning, they directly got two pieces of glass stuck in the slide. As a result, when they were experimenting, they were shattered by the vibration of the steam engine starting at the moment before the car ran out one meter. It was a terrible deal.
Later, they thickened the doors, added small metal pulleys in the glass slide, and rubber strips for buffering and increasing friction. Then they wrapped the entire piece of glass with metal frames and embedded rubber strips inside for buffering. Under the double protection, they achieved this glass window that can slide open and close and can be safe when the vehicle is running.
Because the front windshield is too large, the early windshield design of the car is adopted. A column is added between the A-pillar and the B-pillar, dividing the front windshield into two left and right pieces. This not only ensures safety, but also reduces production and maintenance costs. Small pieces of glass are definitely easier to make than large pieces, so the cost is low. When it breaks accidentally, if only one piece is broken, then half of it can be replaced, and there is no need to replace the whole piece.
Therefore, production and maintenance are very cheap, and the smaller the glass area, the less likely it is to break.
The on-board lighting system, because there is no electric light, still uses the calcium carbide lamp that the Han tribe is most familiar with and has the most mature technology.
In fact, if you want electric lights, Luo Chong can solve the power supply problem. Generators are not easy to make, but it is no problem to make a lead-acid chemical energy storage battery. However, he cannot make light bulbs because the Han tribe does not have the ability to produce tungsten filaments, and it is temporarily impossible to find other heat-resistant materials.
If there were heat-resistant metal materials comparable to tungsten filaments, Luo Chong would have made a machine gun that can fire continuously, and it would be even more impossible to have a weak chicken rifle that can only fire four or five thousand rounds of bullets.
Therefore, using calcium carbide lamps as lighting systems is also a helpless move.
However, to be honest, Luo Chong is very satisfied with the design plan of the institute this time, and even a little surprised, because they have learned to flexibly apply all the current technologies and materials of the Han tribe, flexibly match them, and create new design plans.
Luo Chong is only responsible for proposing requirements and standards, and the specific design is done by the institute.
For example, for the lighting system, Luo Chong required at least six lights. On the hood of the front of the vehicle, there should be one headlight on each side, which is mainly used to illuminate the road. In addition, the researchers also thoughtfully installed an adjustable concave mirror in the headlight, that is, a reflective bowl, which can adjust the angle of the reflected light beam by turning the outer paddle.
In addition, there are two headlights in front of the roof of the cab. These two lights are irradiated from the front and bottom, mainly used to see the environment near and on both sides of the front of the vehicle.
There are also two headlights at the back of the roof, which are used to illuminate the back of the tractor, so that the driver can observe the working status of the agricultural machinery behind him and the effect of land operations.
What surprised Luo Chong the most was the design of the lighting system. After Luo Chong made the request at first, he thought of two possibilities. First, these guys might get six carbide lamps and hang them directly on, which is the most fucked-up design; second, get six lamp holders fixed on the vehicle body, and then fix the carbide lamps on them.
This is not impossible, but the independent calcium carbide lamp is very troublesome to operate. When using it, you need to add water to the calcium carbide box one by one, control the reaction speed of calcium carbide and water, the amount of gas output, and the size of the flame. In addition, you have to keep a pot of water in the car and climb to the roof to add water to the calcium carbide box at any time.
The degree of shittyness of this design is second only to the first one, but it is not unacceptable. After all, the principle of calcium carbide lamp is there, and what advanced lighting method can you design.
If the second plan is further evolved, that is, four holes are opened in the roof, and the calcium carbide lamp is made to be retractable up and down. When adding water or adjusting, pull the lamp down, and push it to the roof after the operation. Although this is still very troublesome, at least you don’t have to climb to the roof. The driver can complete the operation in the cab, just standing up and stretching his hand.
But the talents of the Power Research Institute designed a better system. They made two large acetylene generators, which were installed inside the front hood and outside the rear bulkhead of the cab. The two headlights on the front of the car were connected to the generator on the front of the car through rubber hoses, supplying gas to the two headlights at the same time; the four headlights on the roof were connected to the generator behind the car wall through rubber hoses, supplying gas to the four roof lights at the same time.
This saved the trouble of adding water to the lights one by one. The six lights were divided into two systems by laying rubber gas pipes. The rubber pipes were also made of thin pipes used to make valve cores. They were safe, convenient, cost-saving, and did not take up space.
To be honest, even if all of them were replaced with electric lights, wires had to be laid. In Luo Chong's eyes, laying rubber pipes was no different from pulling wires.
The only difference between electric lights and carbide lamps was that electric lights only needed a switch to start, while calcium carbide lamps needed to be ignited with open flames. But this was not a big deal. All six lights could be lit by lighting a wooden stick and walking around the car. At least there was no need to climb on the roof.
Luo Chong was most pleased that they had already figured out how to use existing technology and materials reasonably, such as the rubber tube used to transport gas.
This plan was completely their own idea. Luo Chong only asked for the location and the number of lights to be installed, but what kind of lights and how to install them were the Institute's skills.
(End of this chapter)
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