The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 51 Carriage has no technical content, but wheels can have technical content!

"Shopkeeper Song, how long would it take for your shop to build all the fifty cars? To be honest, we don't trust the cars made by other carpenters. Apart from other things, the cars you make are easier to pull than others. If we go long distances, we can save a little effort." Wang Jinxiong was not very interested in Song Yingkui's proposal. He seemed to have decided to order cars in Song's shop.

"If we do the whole shop, we can finish it in about one and a half months." With the hydraulic saw, the efficiency of the shop's work has been improved qualitatively. The work that used to take at least three months to complete can now be completed in more than a month. Song Yingkui still has a surplus in one and a half months.

"Okay, then let's forget about the money, please hurry up and make our car out of the brothers of the Song family. There is plenty of time to do it in ten or so days, but the work must be done well. Especially the wheels, you must do the same as you did for other people's homes before." Seeing that Song Yingkui had accepted the job of making the car, Wang Jinxiong was ready to settle accounts and formally settle the matter.

Wheels?etc!What Wang Jinxiong said gave Song Yingkui a new idea.That's right, the shelf car has no technical content, but it doesn't mean it can't have technical content.Making wheels is our forte.

Although there is no major technical improvement for the wheels made for the shelf carts, the iron hoops are finer and smoother than those made by others, and they are specially rounded after they are finished, which is indeed better than that of ordinary craftsmen.The wheels are good, and it saves effort when using the car.

With one's own technical ability, it is not difficult to realize the real technical transformation of the wheel.For example, make simple bearings to make the wheels turn easier.Another example is to make the hub structure more reasonable without changing the sturdy and durable characteristics of the wheel, and use composite materials instead of a single wooden structure?As long as the performance of the wheel is greatly improved, the car model can be imitated in the future, and the wheel is not easy to be imitated.

If you only do the business of wheels, the market is huge. In addition to making wheels for shelf carts, you can also make wheels for horse-drawn carts and ox carts.In the future, this shop can be turned into a special wheel factory, and the wheels made by the Song family will sell well in Dazheng without any problem.This has many advantages over hand-cranked noodle presses, step plows and the like.Whether the performance of the wheel is good or not can be seen on the spot.Traditional wheels may not be able to do a single idling turn. The self-made wheel can idling more than ten times. Will buyers be tempted after seeing it?
"Master Wang, it's like this. I'm preparing to make a better wheel recently. When this wheel is ready, it will be much easier to use than the previous wheels. Do you want to use new wheels for your batch of cars? If you have an idea, the price will be an additional two hundred yuan. This is because you are the first to use new wheels in large quantities. It is so cheap. When I sell a large number of new wheels in my shop in the future, it will not be so cheap. If you want to use new wheels, you can make them all. It will take two months to complete fifty cars, and now it depends on whether you have any ideas."

Now that he had an idea, Song Yingkui seized the opportunity to sell to the big customer who came to his door.If the envisioned new wheels are made, the price of only two hundred cash will cover the increased cost at most.However, what Song Yingkui valued was the publicity effect of the uppers. The sooner the new wheels are used in the uppers, the easier it is to expand the market.The promotion of this thing must at least focus on the entire province of Xisu, and even the national market.

"Brother, do you have the new wheels you mentioned? Can I have a look first?" Hearing that there are better wheels, Wang Jinxiong was naturally moved.He wanted to see how it looked, if it was really useful, adding two hundred coins would not be a big deal.

"I just started to make it, and I haven't made it yet! Chief Wang, let's put it this way. The price will be an extra two hundred yuan, and the extra money will be paid when you pick up the car. If you think the new wheels I made for you are not good, I will replace them with old-fashioned wheels on the spot, and the money will not be counted. What do you think?" Song Yingkui is not afraid that Wang Jinxiong and the others will return the new wheels as long as they are made and installed on the car.The advantages of performance can be checked on the spot, so there is nothing to be afraid of!Strictly speaking, as long as you have a little brain, you can understand that this matter is a gain rather than a loss.

"Okay! Brother, we can entrust you with our car. Although the Song family brothers are young, in terms of reputation, you can hear your carpentry work well as soon as you enter Wuying Town. We always buy your bean curd bamboo when we pass by on foot. As long as we finish the car this time, Lao Wang, I will bring you two jars of good Hengchuan wine to treat you well." Exchanging words.

It is true that the flowers are planted intentionally and the flowers will not bloom, but the willows are planted unintentionally to make shade.At the beginning, Song Yingkui made a shelf car just to make it easier for the family to pull things down from the mountain.Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the core product for the store to maintain its operation.Now, because of this thing again, Song Yingkui thought of a breakthrough to expand the industry.Because a shelf car really opened the door to wealth.

The car booked by foot in Huichuan is different from the car booked by the villagers in the nearby Wuying Township.To make cars for the villagers, under normal circumstances, only labor and no materials are included, and it is rare to encounter labor and materials together.It's different when it comes to footwork. It's packaged together with the work and materials, and it's the real finished product.Calculated in this way, normally speaking, he would earn several taels of silver more than usual.However, because they are going to make new wheels for them, they will go in and do some work. Generally speaking, the money they can earn is similar to the work they usually do for the villagers.

The bearings made for new wheels are not independent bearings, but steel balls are added to the hub, and then they are set together with the wheel.In this way, the process will be simpler, and the precision requirements for steel balls and bearing sleeves will be lower. Hot casting and manual grinding can meet the process requirements.

It is actually very difficult to make the kind of bearings that will be used in future generations!Bearings look simple, but it is not easy to do well. Many of the high-precision bearings of later generations are imported from established bearing factories in Europe and America. The quality of domestic bearings is still inferior.

As for the main body of the wheel, the improvement Song Yingkui thought of was to use two layers of hardwood sandwiched with a composite material mixed with sawdust and water glue to compress the skeleton.The outer layer of the rim is wrapped with a layer of rubber powder composite material, and the outermost layer is covered with a thin iron sheet.In this way, on the premise of not reducing the hardness of the wheel, the weight is appropriately reduced, and the roughness and wear resistance are increased.The most important thing is that the wheels produced in this way will be rounder, more integral and less prone to breakage.Of course, it will be more difficult for others to imitate. In a short time, this kind of wheel will be the only one on the market!
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