Chapter 430: Engines and Propellers
readx;?ā Old horse, don't rush me, I can't get the engine now, I really can't get it! Zhang Yuan looked at Ma Linming in front of him with a bitter face, the latter did not back down at all, and pointed to the outside of the factory office where Zhang Yuan was, "No engine?" How can it be? The planes of the Air Force are flying around every day these days, don't tell me it's a glider! Don't tell me it's still an electric motor! The sound of the engine was so loud that we could hear it from three kilometers away! ā
"That's not it," Zhang Yuan looked sad, "That is a three-cylinder diesel engine that we made by hand, and the performance is still in the test, this thing can't be done overnight, no one can eat a big fat man in one bite, right?" ā
"But it's been so long, even if the refugees in the stockpile are now fattened, why can't the diesel engine be taken out? Isn't the three-cylinder diesel already hand-built? Build us two, although it can't compare to the old tank engine, but it's better than the one used in our old tank. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info [latest chapter reading]"
"I can't build it for the time being, you have to know that we have been processing the crankshaft of the three-cylinder diesel engine for more than a month, and more than 40 have been scrapped, and in order to make that engine, we have spent at least two or three thousand on the cost alone!" Zhang Yuan spread his hands, "We have no money!" ā
"!" Ma Linming raised his right index finger and nodded at Zhang Yuan, "Can technology development be included in the cost?" That's the development cost! Machining is definitely getting more and more proficient, and if you can build the first one, even if it fails, it is enough experience to accumulate. ā
"How did I not know?" Zhang Yuan sat in the chair with a flushed face, "The Air Force has given a total of more than 1,000 yuan in development expenses, and they themselves have only this in total, and our heavy industry department has paid more than 1,000 yuan to develop this aircraft, you must know that the skeleton and skin of the aircraft are all made by themselves, and the industrial department is just engaged in this engine." ā
"And how much does the engine cost?" Ma Linming was taken aback, he had thought that the entire plane had been developed by a heavy industry laboratory. Zhang Yuan thought for a while, "The cost is not high, it is about one hundred and sixty or seventy yuan." ā
"That's not expensive, why did it cost twenty times the development cost?" Ma Linming felt strange, Zhang Yuan's face suddenly turned yellow, "You think this is playing red alert?" Throw a factory there and click it to get out of the tank? I don't need money to make molds over there? Do you need money to machine crankshafts? The crankshaft alone cost almost a thousand, not to mention the cylinders and pistons, and a bunch of tools were scrapped just for machining. ā
"Knives from the Old Plane?" Ma Linming's face was stunned, but Zhang Yuan shook his head, "No, it is produced in this time and space, if the tools produced in the old time and space will not have such great wear, but the things in the old time and space are all used on the blade, and even the machine tools we process are produced in this time and space, so the tolerance is so large......"
"I'll go, aren't you causing trouble for ourselves?" Ma Linming couldn't help but sneer, "It's okay to use the equipment of the old time and space, after a long time, the machine tool you said at that time can be self-replicated for a long time, and it is a weasel cub generation is not as good as a generation?" ā
"You birdman!" Zhang Yuan couldn't help but wave his hand, "How can it be so perverted as you say, it's just that everyone was inexperienced at the beginning, and the tolerance was a little bigger, and now it's improving." ā
"Okay, you change yours, I only ask you, if you want to build me an engine, what do you need!"
"At least 2,000 yuan, there are 2,000 yuan, and I will find some way to get a production line out here, and I can directly manufacture diesel engines." Zhang Yuan replied very simply, but Ma Linming spoke again, "I want a six-cylinder!" ā
"I'll go, why don't you want twelve-cylinders?" Zhang Yuan jumped up, "The entire six-cylinder has to be redesigned, which is equivalent to redeveloping a new engine!" Two thousand yuan can't be done! ā
"!" Ma Linming immediately sneered, "The six-cylinder is just three more cylinders than the three-cylinder, what's so difficult?" ā
"Then you're just more tiny than a woman, and you have a child?" Zhang Yuanzui did not suffer a loss, "The three-cylinder engine is now arranged in a triangular shape, and the cylinders of the six-cylinder must be replaced with a parallel arrangement, otherwise the heat dissipation will be very troublesome." In addition, the processing of cylinders will be more cumbersome, and the people I have at hand are mainly engaged in the improvement of steam engines, and not many people can work on diesel engines for the time being. ā
"This is not troublesome, I can provide someone to you, I have a few guys in the company who are very smart, and they can be used by you first when repairing tanks," Seeing Zhang Yuan's joyful expression, Ma Linming hurriedly gave him a preventive shot, "It's just a secondment, definitely not for your industrial department." Zhang Yuan smashed his mouth twice in a bit of frustration, "Okay, I'll go to find the engine information later, you get the seconded people first, and I'll transfer their food relationship to our laboratory." ā
"That's not going to happen!" Ma Linming shook his head, "The food relationship is reversed, you will be hacked away at that time, I won't do it, when the time comes, these people will play a big role on the mainland, if you are detained in the heavy industry department, where can I find tank maintenance personnel?" ā
"So how do you solve the problem of their eating? You send here every day from the armored corps company? Zhang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned, and Ma Linming thought for a moment, "Every day when I eat, I will ask the cooking team to drive the dining car over and let them continue to eat the army pot." It's good for me to come and monitor the development every day. Zhang Yuan couldn't help but shrug his shoulders, "Whatever you want, you can come every day if you want, but let me tell you, the layman looks at the excitement, you come to see the excitement every day, and the insider can't enter the Tao, the more you come to the door, the slower the progress here will be." ā
"I don't have to speak, anyway, you hurry up and find the information now, and I'll go and prepare the seconded guy for you." Ma Linming finally saw some light, and immediately went out happily.
Looking at his figure walking out with great interest, Zhang Yuan sighed and shook his head and said, "The six-cylinder diesel engine is enough for the truck, isn't there excess power for that thin-skinned tank?" ā
"That's not what I said," a faint voice suddenly came out next to him, scaring Zhang Yuan into jumping three feet high, "Who!" ā
"Me! I've been in for a long time! Zhang Yuanxun went to the prestige, and it turned out that there was a person sitting on the wooden sofa with one crooked foot on the side, and he was shaking and playing with this crooked wooden sofa as a Taishi chair.
Take a closer look at Tang Xunliang, who turned out to be the navy, and look at his leisurely appearance, he should have been sitting there for a long time. There was also a teacup on the coffee table in front of the wooden sofa of the Taishi chair, and the heat was still rising from the teacup.
Tang Xunliang saw that he was looking at his teacup, shrugged his shoulders and said, "No way, when I came in, you and Ma Linming were arguing about the engine, so none of you paid attention to me, I waited for a while, and simply made myself a cup of tea, what is the matter with your tea?" The taste is so light? ā
"Oh," Zhang Yuan smiled mysteriously, "what are you doing here?" Didn't you ask for an engine too? ā
"Of course, the dry dock on June 2 can start to be reinforced with cement, and you know that the entire dry dock can be covered with ...... in half a month at most" Tang Xunliang said and took a sip of the teacup, "The taste of your tea is really light enough." Then he put down the teacup and continued, "When the one-month maintenance period is over, you can basically lay the keel pier immediately, and at the same time, you can start building the water barrier, and at that time, you can dock." You also know that ship repair is not a big problem, basically just change a few ship boards, the main thing is that the engine is still too important, and we are also considering whether the engines installed in the two Victory class are steam engines or diesel engines. ā
"Diesel engines aren't suitable, right?" Zhang Yuan said, "The consumption of diesel engines is large, and the current diesel production is not high, and the consumption of the army and air force plus the transportation team is basically the same at most." You also know that the navy has always been a big oil user, and the navy used heavy oil at that time, because other engines consumed too much. ā
"Then you mean we're going to burn heavy oil on a new ship?" Tang Xunliang was a little speechless, he was not very familiar with heavy oil, since he got on the boat, he had either a diesel engine or a gasoline engine on the boat, and he didn't know how to drive the ship with heavy oil.
"That's not it, heavy oil is a lot of resources, but it is also very polluting, and it is not easy to mine, and even need to inject hot water or steam to dissolve and increase fluidity before it can be mined, and even many need to dig like coal. This kind of thing consumes too much manpower, and it has to be refined, which is very troublesome, but it is better to burn coal directly. Zhang Yuan said, "Our ships are relatively small, so they are all driven by diesel engines, but if it is a large ship like the Victory class, it can be directly driven by a large marine steam engine." ā
"Marine steam engine?" Tang Xunliang was a little dazed, "Is there any difference with the train steam engine?" ā
"Of course it's different, the train steam engine has a big limit on weight, if it's too big, the installation and manufacturing are cumbersome, but the marine steam engine, especially the steam engine of this kind of big ship, has a lot less weight restrictions, and the more powerful the steam engine, the better for the ship, isn't it?" Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up as he spoke, trying to unleash his charm.
"It's not safe if the boiler explodes, right?" Tang Xunliang immediately poured cold water on Zhang Yuan's head, "The pressure of marine boilers is often much greater, and there are strict requirements for size and shape. On warships, there is no need to set up an air preheater, and the thermal efficiency of the boiler is lost. There are also boilers to adapt to the ship's swaying, tilting and impact......"
Zhang Yuan hurriedly waved his hand, "Okay, okay, I'll check it out, but it's still the same sentence, it's best to use a steam engine on the ship, by the way, what kind of thrusters do you use?" Is it a propeller or a paddle wheel? ā
"I don't know about this yet, and we don't have a consensus on it ourselves." Tang Xunliang sighed, "A group of patriarchs are arguing, some say they want to get a bright wheel, and some say they want to get on the propeller, I don't know how to get it." ā
"In fact, the paddle wheel is also good, the paddle wheel is relatively simple to install, and basically does not need to make any large-scale changes to the hull, just install it directly on the hull. But in the case of propellers, it is completely different, and the propellers have to be slotted and hollowed out in the bottom of the boat. We're wooden ships now. Zhang Yuan said, "You also know the wooden boat, especially the new ship is leaking everywhere when it is launched, and the upper propeller is more prone to water ingress, if the water enters the boiler and is hit, the explosion is also a matter of minutes." ā
"Hehe, if this marine boiler explodes, I guarantee that the Yamato will also drink a pot." Tang Xunliang sighed and said, "According to you, it's still a bright wheel?" ā
"No, you wait." Zhang Yuan stood up and rummaged through the messy pile of papers on the desk, but couldn't find it. He had to go to a few tables to the side and rummage over.
"What are you looking for?" Tang Xunliang looked puzzled, looked at Zhang Yuan and asked, "What are you looking for?" ā
"It suddenly occurred to me that there seemed to be a design plan that could be installed by attaching an external propeller." Zhang Yuan continued to search through the pile of documents as he spoke. That is, the power is transmitted through the transmission mechanism to a position above the waterline, and then the propellers on both sides of the boat are driven down through the propeller shafts on both sides of the boat. I remember I took it, but I can't remember where I received it. ā
"Isn't that more troublesome? There are still two sets of transmissions in the middle to reach the propeller, isn't it a waste of a lot of power? Tang Xunliang shook his head, "It's not suitable, right?" ā
"What's not suitable?" Zhang Yuan said, "You don't even resist the paddle wheel, this kind of external propeller is a hair?" Relatively speaking, the power consumption is much smaller than that of the paddle wheel. ā
"Hehe, as for it?" Tang Xunliang paced over and flipped through the pile of documents casually, and suddenly took out a file bag from inside, "Are you looking for this?" ā
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then took a look, and suddenly wrote on the kraft paper document bag, "Victory-level external propeller plan".
"Why can't I find it after looking for a long time, you can get it as soon as you come over, it's evil." As he spoke, Zhang Yuan opened the file bag, then walked quickly to the coffee table and spread it out, looked up and saw that his tea had not finished drinking, so he asked, "Do you still drink this tea?" ā
"Don't," Tang Xunliang finished speaking, and saw Zhang Yuan carrying a teacup and pouring it into a leaky scoop stamped by an industrial department, spreading out the tea leaves, and then pouring them into a basket outside the window, Tang Xun walked over in surprise, and there were already a lot of tea leaves spread out on it, as if they were drying, "What are you doing here?" What is this tea dry for? ā
"You can brew it again," Zhang Yuan looked innocent, "This is the black-hearted heavy metal tea brought by the old time and space, and it is too luxurious to drink it once and pour it out." Then he saw Tang Xunliang staring at him with slanted eyes, "No wonder the tea tastes so light, I won't drink your tea next time." ā
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