The ironware I made shines

Chapter 410 Core Components

Hilton five-star hotel in Berlin, Germany.

After Ge Xiaohua finished dealing with the blacksmith shop and arranged everything, he went abroad.

Thor-Aite is a well-known forging master in Germany, a consultant hired by large companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Lange with high salaries. He stays at home every year and does nothing, and has several million dollars in the account. It can be seen that Thor's reputation in Germany. At this moment, Thor Paul personally took Andre to the hotel and led him to the Mercedes-Benz company.

"Mr. Thor, hello, long time no see." Ge Xiaohua said in fluent English. Thor often goes abroad to participate in exchange activities. He is at the same level as Masahiro Yamamoto, so he can still speak English, although he has some accents. But it's all right.

"Watson, you are too polite. Now you are quite famous in the field of forging in the world. I am very happy to come to Berlin."

Ge Xiaohua’s English name has become Watson, so some foreigners who are familiar with Ge Xiaohua will call him Watson, which is a bit similar to Watson in Sherlock Holmes’s novels, but it’s just a Chinese transliteration, similar to foreigners calling Chinese place names. It is a foreigner who has stayed in Hong Kong for a long time, and he followed his Hong Kong colleagues to call Ge Xiaohua that way.

Therefore, Ge Xiaohua has an English name "Watson" before he knows it.

Ge Xiaohua had some courtesy with Thor, and then talked about his student Andre.

"How was Andre's performance in Russia last time?"

"How should I put it, Mr. Thor, to be honest, Andrei relies too much on machinery. When he was in Russia, he was built entirely by machinery, just like blacksmiths in the United States and Russia, and the consequences were Five or six or even more than ten pieces were built in a month. If there is difficulty in choosing, it will be difficult even to participate in the judging panel. As a result, most of the energy is spent on other works, and the works that actually participate in the competition will be allocated The energy is less than one-fifth, or even one-tenth, do you think it can be compared with the works we put all our heart into to create?"

"Mechanized works are indeed very efficient, but the quality cannot be compared with pure handwork." Thor fell into deep thought. They are used to building with machines, and they have reached a point where they are handy in the use of machines. They rashly build by hand. Everything has to be done from the beginning, and it is still relatively difficult. The traditional Chinese hand-made method is not suitable for the character of the Germans.

Seeing the appearance of Thor and Andre, Ge Xiaohua knew that this sentence caused them to think, so he just added: "Mechanized manufacturing also has its advantages, such as high efficiency, stable quality, and higher plasticity, whether it is manual or mechanical. It is desirable, not to mention modern, the combination of machinery and computers is more perfect."

After Ge Xiaohua said this, Thor and Andre didn't want to go into the field of pure hand-made. With their current stereotyped manufacturing, it is not cost-effective to set foot again.

After chatting for a while, Thor and Andre took him to the Mercedes-Benz company, followed the manager of the Berlin factory to visit the production workshop, and saw the cars on the assembly line, one car after another was welded on the robot arm to form , and then install the three major parts, and make it step by step, a luxury Mercedes-Benz SUV will come out.

"From the workshop, it seems that the car is very simple to make." In fact, if one person builds a car, it is better to assemble it than to build it. Various accessories need to be purchased and matched. There are almost no things to build, because you don’t have the technology to build engines, clutches, chassis, etc., you can only purchase them globally, and then assemble them. At most, the shells, interiors, and functions are different. In fact, as long as a car has a core The three major pieces can make a car.

I visited the production workshop, these are mass-produced cars, and the manager took them to the hand-made workshop at this moment. Although there are machines, they are mainly made by hand to create private customized cars, each of which is limited version.

Ge Xiaohua visited the Mercedes-Benz company for about three days and had a bold idea.

"The core of a car is the engine. If an engine with light can be built, what amazing effect will this car produce?" However, the engine is a pain that will never be forgotten by Chinese automakers, and it is still subject to the engine. The technology is relatively backward, so it is suppressed by foreign automakers, but now domestic automakers are beginning to realize that they just buy other people’s engines, and they cannot produce and research the core engines themselves, and will always be controlled by others. This is different from other products. , although the process of globalization is speeding up, but for the core technology, no matter which country will block it, no matter how much money you spend, you will not sell this technology!
If it weren't for Mitsubishi's engine at the beginning, there was no engine that could be sold in China, and which Mitsubishi engine is still the mainstream engine of domestic cars even now, it can be seen that it is still difficult to learn the core.

"Buying a brand new engine is very troublesome to disassemble and learn its structure, and it is a bit of a waste of the engine." After visiting the production workshop of Mercedes-Benz, Ge Xiaohua had a big brain hole. He originally wanted to build a car by himself, but it was nothing more than buying a car. Parts are then assembled. This level of building cannot be said to be making a car but assembling.

Generally, senior maintenance personnel who are proficient in automobile maintenance and machinery manufacturing should know it, but what Ge Xiaohua wants to do is to build automobile engines!

"If you want to study the structure of a car engine, buying a brand new one is very restrictive. In China, you have to go through registration with the vehicle management office. If you are not careful, you will be targeted. You can go to the car scrapping factory to find scrapped ones. Cars are dismantled and reassembled with engines, and the engines themselves are also to be dismantled and then destroyed.”

Generally, the core components such as engines in formal scrapping factories cannot be reused, because the life of the engine must have reached the end of the scrapping condition, and it is definitely not possible to disassemble it for use, so it must be disassembled All the parts of the engine are removed, and then processed, really scrapped, not recycled.

Cars have high safety requirements, and scrapped engines cannot be used. Once used, it is illegal, but Ge Xiaohua wants to disassemble scrapped engines. Learning the principles of them should not violate any laws.

Although I learned the principle of starting the engine when I was in college, it was only on paper, and I had never really started to operate it. Therefore, Ge Xiaohua felt that he had to disassemble and assemble a few engines by himself to practice his hands. Anyway, the scrap factory also dismantled it, instead of wasting manpower. And machinery, it is better for Ge Xiaohua to provide free dismantling.

"In the scrapping factory on the outskirts of the county seat, I remember that there are many cars waiting to be scrapped. They have been piled up for a long time, and no one has dealt with them. Maybe they dislike the trouble." Ge Xiaohua thought to himself, and planned to talk to Ge Jianguo when he returned to China. It should be nothing to help scrap the car, the main thing is to learn the internal structure of the car, which can lay the foundation for Ge Xiaohua to build a car in the future. It is best to use the scrapped car to practice. If it is a new car, Ge Xiaohua is reluctant to mess with it even if he has money ah.

(End of this chapter)