Chapter 15

As it approached noon, five trucks entered the factory yard.

Chang Yuanting walked to the western construction site and shouted loudly, "Come and unload the goods!"

The people digging a large pit immediately looked over at him. Seeing the factory manager waving urgently, everyone quickly put down their tools and climbed out of the pit.

With many hands, the pit on the west side of the factory had been dug quite deep. Hundreds of people, both men and women, old and young, worked day and night, and the progress was quite fast.

"Quick, come and unload the rice, flour, and oil!" Chang Yuanting shouted again.

This time, the younger ones, upon hearing the shout, cheered and ran excitedly to the factory.

"Old Chang, is this the goods from the oil and grain company?" Zheng Yongmin, holding a shovel, walked over and asked.

Chang Yuanting smiled and said, "Yes! Old Zheng, 4000 yuan worth of oil and grain! Just like that, we got it!"

Zheng Yongmin was also very pleased. He laughed and said, "Great! Selling cars is indeed more promising than repairing them!"

The two of them burst into laughter.

In about half an hour, the workers had unloaded all the goods. The five trucks circled around and drove out.

After that day, the factory began to receive goods continuously. Various commodities, materials, equipment, and industrial products were brought to the factory and moved into the workshops.

Without needing Lin Qiangsheng's suggestion, Chang Yuanting had already thought of using barter to exchange for car parts.

"This foam pad, placed under the chassis connection, can reduce noise," Lin Qiangsheng explained to the assembly master.

In the workshop, a black car chassis was placed. This had been produced by the city casting factory at Chang Yuanting's request over the past two months.

They had also taken on a series of car parts production, such as fuel tanks, exhaust pipes, and drive shafts.

It was already late July. The original sheet metal workshop had been transformed into a power manufacturing factory, and the foundation for the new factory on the west side had been completed.

Lin Qiangsheng's drawing speed was clearly not as fast as the production speed. Recently, Lin Xiangrong had been working overtime at the factory every night to help his son with the drawings.

Lin Qiangsheng only needed to sketch the rough outlines and dimensions of the parts. The rest of the detailed work was completed by both father and son.

This greatly increased the drawing speed. Fortunately, they were only manufacturing a simplified version of the Jetta, with many parts simplified; otherwise, the two of them would have been exhausted.

Lin Qiangsheng also set up a mold workshop in the factory.

This was at his request to Qin Qidong, who, after seeing Lin Qiangsheng's drawings of the power steering system, strongly supported him.

The mold workshop was assisted by Chen Bing and a few senior sisters. Within two months, they had made sand molds for the engine and transmission casings and the exhaust system.

In his previous life, Lin Qiangsheng had co-founded a mold company, so he was very familiar with these things.

"Qiangsheng, come quickly, the cylinder block is about to be cast!" Chen Bing ran to the workshop and shouted.

"Ah! I'm coming," Lin Qiangsheng responded loudly.

He excitedly left the masters and ran with Chen Bing to the adjacent engine casting workshop.

The car factory had exchanged an old furnace from the city casting factory for cylinder block casting.

At that moment, the master from the casting factory was holding the direction rod with both hands, carefully pouring the molten iron into the sand mold.

Lin Qiangsheng walked closer, and the heat from the bright yellow molten iron was almost scorching his face.

All the leaders present were excited, their eyes fixed on the sand mold, afraid it would break!

"Slowly, slowly! Good!" Qin Qidong muttered softly. Seeing the molten iron fill the sand mold, he shouted excitedly.

Zheng Yongmin and Chang Yuanting also cheered, so happy they wanted to jump in and do it themselves.

The first generation of the factory's car power system used a replica of the Lada engine and transmission. Although 56 horsepower was relatively weak, it was not outdated for the current time.

Lin Qiangsheng had no confidence in drawing the entire old Jetta's EA113 engine and 02K transmission in such a short time.

Therefore, he made the molds according to the leaders' wishes without saying anything.

After a discussion, the factory leaders decided to use the old method of replication.

Chief Engineer Xu called a group of students from the school to help with the drawings.

Lin Qiangsheng made the sand molds and cores, and then the replication experiments began. Today was the first casting of the cylinder block.

Chief Engineer Xu was also present. He smiled at Lin Qiangsheng and said, "Great, Qiangsheng! I didn't expect your sand molds to hold up so well!"

He nodded with a smile. Now, Chief Engineer Xu really liked Lin Qiangsheng, who seemed to know a little about everything. Interacting with this young man was very pleasant.

Whenever they discussed a problem, Lin Qiangsheng could quickly understand and even provide new insights, sometimes even inspiring the old engineer.

If it weren't for Lin Qiangsheng's low education level and his unwillingness to go to school, Xu would have taken him as his disciple!

When the time came, the mold cooled through the cooling system. The casting master removed the sand mold, revealing the rough engine cylinder block.

The cast iron cylinder block reflected a bluish light, dazzling everyone present. They stared in awe at the new engine casing, momentarily speechless.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Qin Qidong was the first to clap, and then everyone else realized and began to applaud enthusiastically.

"Great! The cylinder block casting was successful! This is the first step! We need to make the crankshaft and cylinders next. Step by step, our car factory will be able to produce a real engine, our own engine!" Qin Qidong encouraged loudly.

Everyone clapped enthusiastically, and Lin Qiangsheng also laughed and clapped.

After a while, Qin Qidong said to Lin Qiangsheng, "Little Lin, you need to continue working on the sand mold for the crankshaft and try to get it done soon."

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said, "Okay, Director Qin."

Qin Qidong patted Lin Qiangsheng's shoulder and smiled, "Good young man, our factory is lucky to have you!"

Lin Qiangsheng scratched his head and smiled. He turned to look at Chen Bing, and the two excitedly went to the mold workshop.

The mold workshop was not large, just occupying the old conference room. Along the walls, there were many bags of casting sand placed on wooden planks to prevent moisture.

This was specially selected silica sand from the provincial industrial bureau, used for casting cylinders, crankshafts, and camshafts.

At that moment, Zou Xue and a few senior sisters were making sand molds.

The girls placed the crankshaft pattern into a large sand box, then poured in the sand, compacted it, and leveled it. They flipped the sand box, exposing half of the crankshaft pattern, then sprinkled parting sand, placed the upper sand box, inserted the sprue pin, and poured in the sand, compacting and leveling it.

On one side of the sand box, they marked the sand, removed the upper sand box, flipped it to the side, and then removed the crankshaft pattern. They realigned the upper sand box with the marks and closed the sand box.

Lin Qiangsheng and Chen Bing carefully opened the door and slowly walked behind the girls. Zou Xue and the others were so focused that they didn't hear anyone enter.

Zou Xue carefully covered the mold. When the mold was completed, she sighed in relief and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve.

The girls looked at each other and smiled, then jumped up happily.

"Great, Zou Xue, we finally made the crankshaft mold using Qiangsheng's method!" one girl said happily.

"Yes! Zou Xue, you're familiar with Lin Qiangsheng. Ask him if this is correct," another older girl said.

Zou Xue was about to nod when Lin Qiangsheng's voice came from behind.

"That's correct, very good!" Lin Qiangsheng suddenly said with a smile.

The girls were startled and quickly turned around to see Lin Qiangsheng and Chen Bing standing behind them.

Zou Xue patted her chest and said, "When did you two come in? You didn't make a sound."

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and said, "Squeak...."

"Ha!"

The girls burst into laughter at his funny sound.

Zou Xue laughed so hard she was bent over, holding her stomach. "What kind of sound is that, 'squeak'?"

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and looked at Chen Bing, who was standing there like a wooden statue, confused by the girls' sudden laughter.

Lin Qiangsheng turned to the sand mold, examined it, and nodded. "Great! Let's move the mold to the casting workshop and see how it goes."

"Okay!" Zou Xue said loudly, and the girls nodded excitedly.

Zou Xue patted Chen Bing and whispered, "Hurry up and help, what are you standing there for, like a wooden statue?"

"Oh!" Chen Bing came to his senses and quickly went to lift the mold.

Zou Xue shouted, "Hey, be careful, don't break it!"

The girls also called out, afraid that Chen Bing might accidentally damage the mold.

Lin Qiangsheng shook his head and smiled as everyone excitedly left the workshop.

He turned to the table, picked up a pen, and continued drawing the diagrams for the Jetta engine and transmission.

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