When will I have a long tassel?

Just 20 years ago, Heling City in Jinnan Province was still a city mainly based on agriculture. Of course, it was not called Heling City at that time, but was called Heling District.

Perhaps because it is located on the southeast coast and was on the front line in the era of war and famine preparations, the country did not dare to deploy too many industrial projects here. There are less than 100 industrial enterprises in the entire Heling area, and most of them are only Small factories with dozens or even dozens of people, engaged in non-staple food processing or agricultural machinery repair and maintenance, are a negligible part of the national industrial system.

Due to the large number of people and limited land, Heling's agriculture is actually not very developed. The local rice production is not enough to feed farmers in the entire region. Farmers rely on sweet potatoes for most of the year, and it is only enough to satisfy their hunger.

There is a joke in Jinnan Province that if people from Heling go to Yuyuan, the provincial capital, to do business, they don’t need to introduce themselves. People can guess their origin just by looking at their skinny, yellow-skinned appearance. Basically, Inseparable.

If you are poor, you will want to change. This is an eternal truth. Even in the era when the state restricted the development of the private economy, Heling people still secretly engaged in various small businesses, such as going from village to house, exchanging some home-made maltose for other people's chicken feathers and other waste products, and then reselling them to the state-owned enterprises. scrap collection station to earn the meager price difference.

People who were arrested for "speculation" for doing this kind of business were able to gather a few groups in Heling, so that decades later, local private owners in Heling got together to drink and chat. In the past, there were few people on the table who had not sifted the sand.

In the early 1980s, the country began to loosen restrictions on the private economy, and Heling people got an opportunity to display their business talents that they had cultivated through long-term small business operations. In just a few years, thousands of small industrial enterprises have appeared in Heling. At first, these enterprises were disguised as "village-run enterprises" or "community-run enterprises", but gradually their true colors were revealed. They were all farmers. A private enterprise established by one's own family or a partnership.

By the end of the 1990s, Heling had become a nationally renowned metal products manufacturing base, with hundreds of products producing more than half of the world's output. Almost every village in the city has several enterprises, and in some villages even every household is a business owner. Large tracts of farmland were occupied and factories were built. Some scattered plots are only used for growing vegetables, and no one is interested in growing food anymore.

The development of manufacturing industry has brought huge demand for machine tools. In the urban area of ​​Heling, various machine tool sales points and repair points can be seen everywhere. Some stores only deal in machine tools of a certain brand, while others deal in a certain type of machine tools. Precisely because there are so many machine tool sales points and repair points, when a repair shop called "Fat Man Machine Tool" opened in downtown Heling, there was no one else but shopkeepers from the neighbors who came over to watch the excitement. People think there is something novel about it.

The machine tool repair shop opened by Ning Mo and fellow worker Lai Taotao uses the name "Fat Man Machine Tool" mainly to increase its recognition. Other stores use signs like "Xin" or "Long", which sound auspicious in isolation, but when there are more than a dozen "Xin" signs on the same street, customers will inevitably get confused. Aesthetic fatigue has occurred. It often happens that some repeat customers go to the wrong store, which shows the lack of recognition of the signboard.

Fatty Machine Tool is a dual mom-and-pop shop. Ning Mo's wife Zhang Beibei works as an accountant in the shop, Lai Taotao's wife Liu Xiaojing works as an administrator in the shop, and Ning Mo and Lai Taotao work as maintenance workers in the shop.

Ning Mo chose to start a business in Heling because he had been sent to Heling by the factory to cooperate with the Longhu Machinery Factory of brothers Zhao Xinggen and Zhao Xingwang. Through the Zhao brothers, Ningmo met many local private business owners in Heling and formed deep friendships with them over the wine table.

Ningmo has received guidance from famous teachers in the factory over the years, and his fitter skills are better than many old masters in their 40s and 50s. In addition, he is upright and generous. Some private company owners have promised him that as long as he comes to Heling to open a shop, he will have his own factory. If the machine tool inside breaks down, he will be the first priority to help repair it.

After Fatty Machine Tool Shop opened, these private business owners did not break their promises, gave them many repair orders, and were not too picky about the prices. After a few months, the net profit of Fatty Machine Tools has exceeded 100,000. Zhang Beibei counted money every day until her hands cramped, with an idiotic smile on her face 24 hours a day. By the way, her belly was getting bigger and bigger, and Fatty was about to die. Becoming a father.

On this day, a group of uninvited guests came to the Fatty Machine Tool Shop. Even Ning Mo and Lai Taotao specifically turned down orders from several customers and stayed in the shop to receive these people. However, the person in charge of the reception was not the two shop owners, but Han Weichang, the former sales director of Linyiji.

"Mr. Ye, come and see, this is the new mold machine tool jointly launched by Linyi Machinery and Tengji Machinery. We named it an engraving and milling machine. Its characteristic is that it uses engraving instead of milling, and is most suitable for precision manufacturing. Mold processing.”

Han Weichang pointed to an ordinary-looking machine placed in the middle of the store and introduced it to Ye Yongfa, chairman of Xinta Mold Company. After that, he said hello to the group of people following Ye Yongfa. Those people were also the bosses of some manufacturing companies in Jinnan, but the scale of the companies was not as large as that of Xinta Mold Company. In the presence of Ye Yongfa, Han Weichang Not greeting them alone is not considered rude.

The idea of ​​transforming wood carving machine tools into mold machine tools originated from Xiao Wenjun. Since they had previous experience in designing wood carving machine tools, a team of engineers from Canglong Research Institute worked together to design an engraving and milling machine specifically for fine carving of metals in a short time.

Although the engraving and milling machine is a flagship product specially designed for Tengji, Tang Zifeng did not immediately hand over the product to Tengji for manufacturing. Instead, he arranged for Linyi Machine to conduct trial production first. The prototype manufactured by Linyi Machinery went through five iterations and was finally finalized, which is the model currently displayed in Fatty Machine Tool Shop.

An engraving and milling machine weighs nearly one ton. If Han Weichang wants to recommend this kind of engraving and milling machine in Jinnan, he naturally can't carry such an iron lump around on his back. He knew that Ning Mo had opened this machine tool repair shop in Heling, so he discussed with Ning Mo to put the engraving and milling machine in Fatty's machine tool shop. When he met a customer who was interested in the machine tool, he would bring the customer over and conduct the repair. Live Demo.

Of course, you also need to pay to use the venue of Fatty Machine Tool Shop. Han Weichang handed over this business to Fatty Machine Tool Shop with the intention of taking care of Ning Mo, because Han knew that the relationship between Ning Mo and Tang Zifeng was not an ordinary close one.

"What are the benefits of using engraving instead of milling?" Ye Yongfa looked at this unattractive machine tool and asked lightly.

"Mr. Ye, look at this, this is the sample we carved."

Han Weichang took a shining silver workpiece from Ning Mo's hand and handed it to Ye Yongfa's hand.

"Well, it's not bad. The surface finish is quite high and the arc is quite smooth. However, the machining center we are using now can also produce this effect. Your machine tool is too small and requires some processing. Can’t you do big things?”

Ye Yongfa fiddled with the workpiece in his hands and commented.

"Mr. Ye is brilliant! Our engraving and milling machines are currently mainly used for small workpieces, that is, 80 by 80."

Han Weichang first complimented Ye Yongfa, then smiled mysteriously and asked: "But, Mr. Ye, didn't you find anything special about this artifact?"

"Special?" Ye Yongfa was stunned. He looked at it seriously, shook his head and said, "It's nothing special. It's just a square with a few cuts on it."

Han Weichang pointed with his finger and said, "Mr. Ye, take a serious look at this place."

Ye Yongfa looked at it again with his eyes widened, but still shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything special."

Han Weichang reached out to take the workpiece, and pressed a little harder on the place he just pointed at. Something magical happened. The place actually sank, and the entire workpiece suddenly became two pieces.

"This is actually put together!"

Not only Ye Yongfa, but everyone else was also shocked. Although they didn't get started just now, they were not far away and they could clearly see the condition of the workpiece. Before Han Weichang took action, the workpiece was clearly a single piece, and no gaps could be seen on it.

But now, Han Weichang pressed it with his hand, and the workpiece separated. There is a whole piece of workpiece here. It is clearly assembled from two pieces. The upper piece has several holes, and the lower piece has several raised cylinders. The cylinders are placed in the holes and fit together perfectly. They look like a whole. generally.

What a high machining accuracy this is!

Precision milling machines can of course be used to process such high-precision workpieces, but they are generally limited to processing a specific plane. This kind of precision machining of holes and cylinders is enough to make an excellent miller collapse if it is to be realized on a precision milling machine.

"Is this processed by this engraving and milling machine?" Ye Yongfa suppressed his inner excitement and asked Han Weichang, pointing to the engraving and milling machine.

"Exactly."

"is it hard?"

"It's not difficult."

"Can you give us a demonstration on the spot?"

"absolutely okay."

Han Weichang said and gestured to Lai Taotao on the side. Lai Taotao took out a rough-machined blank from somewhere, walked to the engraving and milling machine, skillfully opened the machine tool's protective cover, clamped the blank onto the workbench, and then closed the protective cover. Then, he pressed a bunch of buttons on the control panel, the machine tool buzzed, and the engraving head in the protective cover began to cut on the workpiece.

Everyone came forward and observed the processing process inside through the transparent machine tool protective cover. These people all have a mechanical background. Although they have never seen this kind of engraving and milling machine, they can understand its working principle at a glance. The engraving and milling machine is actually a milling machine, but it uses a small cutter head to highlight fine processing. Due to its single function, its machining accuracy can be effectively improved and the difficulty of operation is also reduced. This is its advantage over ordinary machining centers.