Super Craftsman Chapter 71

Chapter 71 - high precision lathe (1)

"Master, give me some electricity." Guo Tai Lai asked Elder Liu to be the first person to start the lathe.

Elder Liu didn't hold back. He had watched Fatty forge this lathe little by little. During this period of time, he had even used his own experience to teach Fatty a lot of things. It could be said that this was the hard work of the two of them. Elder Liu was unwilling to let them have their first time using electricity to debug the situation.

The electric motor started to turn. Hearing this voice, Elder Liu was stunned. Such a low voice?

The electric motors were designed and installed by Guo Tailai. The parts were all made with 0.5 micron accuracy, and with Fatty's excellent assembly and balance debugging skills, the electric motors only worked with a low buzzing sound. If one didn't listen carefully, they wouldn't even hear it.

Guo Tai Lai put a coin on the protective cover of the electric machine. The electric machine turned for two minutes, but the coin didn't move at all.

Elder Liu knew that Guo Tailai's motor wasn't ordinary, but he didn't expect it to not even have the slightest vibration other than low noise. Although the vibration of the electric motor was minimal, it was definitely rare for it to be so stable.

He placed his hands on the protective cover of the electric machine in disbelief as Elder Liu tried to feel it carefully. For an ordinary electrical machine, Elder Liu's finger was very sensitive. With more than 1 thread of vibrations, it would definitely be able to sense it. However, the electric machine that Fatty was making actually didn't have a trace of vibration. It was simply unbelievable.

The motor was quiet, and the noise of the lathe was not loud. Of course, since he hadn't started working on the knife yet, his voice was naturally very soft.

The lathe was considered to be semi-automatic. It could be used manually, but it could also be used automatically. The only thing that could not be considered as being that tall was a lathe.

Guo Tai Lai changed the motor, the gear box, the guide rail, and everything else that could be changed. There were even differences in the size of the symbols. After magnifying the scale with several levels of gears, it could be directly precise to the unit called a micron. The only thing he had yet to do was to use his blade. Without good quality knife and steel, he could only use the mass-produced goods and then refine them himself.

If it was anyone else, it would probably take a day or two to adjust the dimensions of the new lathe. Guo Tai didn't use it at all when he came here, and just by looking at the size of his hands, he could tell that it was accurate. The calipers and micrometer in the workshop were not as accurate as Guo Tailai's eyes.

What Fatty was making was a high precision lathe, so naturally, he would not be using the car embryo on it. He directly found a short, semi-finished product shaft, clamped it together, and moved the top of the tail to adjust the position of the blade, then inserted the blade.

"Yes, the speed of the blade is stable and constant. That's fine." Elder Liu, who was standing to the side, nodded his head. A level nine locksmith was quite simple to do work on, so he had the right to comment on it.

The car's short axle was very simple. Fatty did it as though it weighed nothing, and he swung the knife to the end.

"The external diameter is now 1.5 cm. To be exact, it is 15.02 mm. The radius has 1 thread left over." After retreating, Guo Tai asked for the size of the knife.

Elder Liu took a micrometer and started to carefully measure it. It was not that he didn't believe Guo Tailai's eyes, but he wanted to measure for himself. Otherwise, if the referee and athlete were Guo Tai Lai, then that would give Fatty a chance to cheat! Moreover, he really wanted to know if this 10% left over amount can be accurately driven out of the car.

Guo Tai Lai adjusted a bit on the scale and continued to stab. The moment the long shaft entered the blade, a layer of thin silk immediately bloomed out. The amount of one thread was half that of a strand of hair. As soon as he stabbed forward, he drew out an extremely thin thread from the car.

Guo Tailai watched the scene unfold until the car was done, then smiled. "Master, I lost a sliver, no more, no less."

Elder Liu was already impatient to bring the micrometer up. Seeing the measurement result, Elder Liu smiled until his eyes were almost narrowed into slits. However, he did not become too proud of himself. Instead, he directed the fatty to continue his knife practice. This time, it was changed to 5 microns. Then 3 microns, 2 microns, and finally 1 micron.

It wasn't until the end of the one-micrometer long blade that Elder Liu couldn't hold it in any longer. His body went limp and he sat down on the chair that the fat guy had put down in time. Suddenly, a near seventy year old man began to shed tears.

Guo Tai Lai also did not say anything, he knew that Elder Liu would be excited, but in truth, Fatty himself was very happy, he had personally made a 1 micron precision lathe. If he had this lathe, then when the Wan Manager first came to him to be a crankshaft, this lathe would be fine, he did not need to use his craftsmanship to polish it.

"Good!" Fatty! "Alright!" Elder Liu was so excited that he could only call him Fatty. After going back and forth a few times, he finally said something else. "Retired and taking you as my disciple. You've really given me a lot of face!"

Master and disciple sat in the dust-free workshop for a long time, doing nothing but watching the lathe and chatting.

Elder Liu recalled many of the difficulties, people and events he encountered at work, and lamented the difficulties of being locked down by technology. Guo Tailai listened quietly by the side. The old man had probably been holding back his words for many years. Today, seeing that the lathe had broken through, he decided it would be better to let it out.

"Fatty, have you fallen for Zhao Yanyan?" At the end of her speech, Old Liu almost let out her anger. Suddenly, she switched the topic to Guo Tailai.

The sudden question stunned Guo Tailai. He quickly denied it. "No way, how could she have taken a fancy to me?!"

"If you like it, you like it. What's there to be embarrassed about?" Guo Tai Lai's performance during the past two months was also seen in his eyes, and when he was depressed, he saw it too. He could probably guess what Fatty was thinking, "It would be weird if you don't like such a beautiful girl like Zhao Yanyan!"

"Did you tell her?" Elder Liu turned to look at Guo Tailai and asked.

"I didn't dare." Guo Tailai didn't want to hide anything from his master. He lowered his head and said, "Sister said she is an unmarried woman and doesn't plan to get married anymore. She also said that if I can become a big, healthy man, she will be my girlfriend."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Elder Liu laughed: "Hurry up and practice!"

"You think there's a chance?" Guo Tai Lai looked at Elder Liu resentfully. "Her family can arrange her to go to South Group directly. Her family background is so good, and she's so beautiful, smart, and knowledgeable. I'm just an ordinary worker from a normal family. Is that possible?"

"How would you know without trying?" Elder Liu naturally knew that Zhao Yanyan's family background was incredible. "I went to see her the day she replied. I've never seen her smile so happily before. "Don't you youngsters often say that you still need to have a dream? What if it comes true?"

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