King Kong is even busier, planning and building this new base.
Along the road to the south, build two rows of three-story dormitories and office buildings. In the middle is the gate, and inside the gate is a middle road from south to north, with the factory workshop divided on both sides of this road.
The fences are made of bamboo, and the workshops and dormitories are made of bamboo and wood as much as possible. Use the bamboo and wood you bought yourself first.
A ceramics factory, a pharmaceutical factory, a machinery factory, and a rubber factory and a plywood factory.
The antibiotic workshop, the firearms workshop, the future semiconductor manufacturing workshop, and the technical research department were to be kept confidential and placed together in two fences.
Now it seems that the land was bought a little larger. With the house built like this, it seems that not many people live there. Is it a sale of property? The ground floors along the street are all designed to look like shops. If it could be sold, the shop would be much more expensive than the house.
There are still some vacancies? It doesn't matter. Enclose it and use it as a pistol shooting training ground. It can also have a place for future development.
He built the plywood factory because he bought too much wood and the current wood processing is really wasteful.
To make the legs of a square stool? Well, take a log about ten centimeters in diameter and chop it with an axe to make a plane, then draw two straight lines on the plane according to the desired size and chop it again, and finally make a square log.
At that time, the skill of a carpenter was mainly judged by how flat the plane you split was. If you have to use a rough planer after chopping, the skill is not good; If you only use fine planing twice, you are considered skilled. In places where the requirements are not high, there is no need to plane after splitting. That's what a master is, that's what craftsmanship is! This skill is beyond the reach of the "axe Gang"!
King Kong is also impressed by the skill that can be practiced to this level. But these masters don't think about it, as a large part of the wood is wasted and the work efficiency is low.
Once the factory floor plan is made, construction begins.
When rebuilding the Dafeng family, a "construction team" was hired. In fact, it was just an experienced master who, upon receiving the job, found three apprentices and some laborers and got to work. No machinery, all manual work. Once the wooden frame is set up, bricks are laid, planks are nailed, tiles are laid, and it's all done.
King Kong offered a good price, found more people, used better materials, and built the house faster.
Now the project of the Keyi Industrial Park should be a major project in big Shanghai, and King Kong has set up his own construction team. All the construction workers who built the Dafeng house have become his workers. He also recruited many masters and workers. "Keep the benefits from others' land," with so many projects of your own, why not start a construction company? Who knows, you might end up in real estate.
The timber factory was the first to be rushed. Once it's done, the rest of the works can use its products.
All the machines in the wood factory have to be made by themselves. This three-ply machine, like a pen knife, cuts large logs into long, continuous sheets. King Kong explained the principle and asked Tian Jiawang of the machinery factory and the workers to design a large lathe based on the existing ones. King Kong reviewed it for the last time. The big lathe is belt-driven, but it doesn't have a speed-changing device, so it's big, but not complicated. There aren't many parts, and they are all processed and manufactured in their own mechanical workshop.
As for the electric circular saw and band saw, they are simple machines. It's just that the manufacturing of band saw blades is a bit difficult. The press needed for the three-ply board, I made a four-column hydraulic press myself. Anyway, the pressure required wasn't high.
Only the boiler was bought, what imported Cochranes boiler. King Kong studied chemical machinery and also learned about boilers. Calculating some heat exchange area and such is all fine. After a rough calculation of this boiler, it was found that the design was very unreasonable, with a small heating area and a waste of coal.
They said it was "the most advanced boiler in the world" and tricked me, an expert! But there's no way around it. After all, China's manufacturing industry is so bad now that everything has to be imported.
In fact, King Kong wronged the equipment manufacturer, which was indeed one of the most advanced boilers in the world at that time! This is the design structure and theoretical level of boilers in this time and space.
When the wood factory house was built, the machine was almost done. In fact, electric circular saws were already used in the construction of this wood factory, which greatly increased production efficiency.
Some of the extra carpenters, bamboo workers and laborers recruited during the construction of the lumber mill were trained, and some of them went to work in the lumber mill.
The timber was produced from the factory itself, especially the five-ply board, which was very popular.
Seeing the mechanical efficiency of the lumber mill, several other construction companies also bought electric circular saws, etc. from King Kong.
King's dormitory building, which he designed himself, was modeled after the standard rooms of guesthouses decades later. Up the stairs was a corridor, with rooms on one side and railings facing the yard on the other.
The key point is that each room has a bathroom, and of course, Koyi's set of sanitary wares.
Several suites were also designed, one living room plus one or two standard rooms on the left and right.
The room is divided into a row of wall cabinets, which take up little space, store a lot of things and are neat.
A large space was left on the ground floor to serve as a classroom, an office, and a dining room. The kitchen is, of course, on the ground floor. Anyway, it's easy to separate them later. Just make a row of wall cabinets.
The design of this standard room, the set of sanitary ware, and the wall cabinets are all practical and novel to everyone who comes to see.
"Such a high-end room, it would be a waste to use it as a workers' dormitory!" Many people who saw it said this and spread it outside, and as a result, more people came to see it.
But King Kong's goal was achieved: after that, the sales of his sanitary ware gradually increased.
And the corporate image of Koyi has improved: the company's staff quarters are so upscale, this company can't be bad!
The rubber factory was something that King Kong had long wanted to build. Because among the parts of chemical machinery now, the sealing element has the shortest maintenance cycle. This has become a bottleneck for Keyi Chemical Machinery. With its own rubber factory, it can produce acid and alkali resistant rubber.
King Kong went to learn about the current level of rubber factories in Shanghai.
The yard he used to rent had no electricity, and he was not used to lighting oil lamps at night. But there are still many households in Shanghai that don't have electricity.
Unexpectedly, King Kong ended up at a rubber factory that had no electricity.
A small rubber factory that produced flange gaskets had no wires!
The press that applies pressure to the mold is manual. It's a screw press. Two workers turn an iron plate about one meter in diameter and turn the screw to press the mold down. The large iron plate can also be pushed back 90 degrees and then hit forward, "clang, clang" a few times to press the mold tighter. In another time and space, it seems that only hand-squeezing sugarcane juice would use such a mechanism, though it would be a few times smaller.
The high temperature of vulcanization is heated by a coal briquette furnace placed beneath the press.
The temperature is controlled by dripping water onto the mold.
If the water becomes a jumble of water droplets on the mold, it's too hot; If the water drops on the mold surface turn white and evaporate slowly, the temperature is too low; If the water droplet turns white on the mold surface and evaporates quickly, the temperature is just right.
As King Kong watched, a worker, too lazy to drip water, spat a mouthful of water on the mold. After the saliva evaporated, a stench came up, overpower the thick rubber smell. King Kong fled in a hurry.
The rubber compounding machine used for grinding raw rubber is manually turned. The raw rubber is cut by hand with scissors; ... . Anyway, everything is done by human power, no electricity.
If King Kong hadn't come into this age, he would never have imagined that a rubber factory could operate without electricity!