Born In England

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In the box of a high-end restaurant.

Li Lin, Li Er, Li Biao and several others met Spike, the production director of the Liverpool Royal Machinery Shipbuilding Branch here.

"Mr. Spike, this is my boss Li Lin." Li Er introduced to Spike.

"Hello, Mr. Spike." Li Lin smiled and extended his hand to the other party.

Spike looked at Li Lin who was so young, and shook hands with a smile: "Li Lin? Are you the owner of the No. 5 perfume?"

"Huh? Mr. Spike has heard of me?" Li Lin was slightly surprised.

"My wife, who visited the Fifth Perfume Competition that day, is also a big fan of No. 5, and No. 5 is really good!" laughed Spike.

To be honest, he didn't expect that the boss in front of him who asked him to customize the machine was the boss of No. 5 Perfume!

"Thank you." Li Lin smiled slightly.

After a bit of politeness, the two sides finally entered the topic.

"Mr. Spike, I want to customize a machine for me through you. First, see if it can be customized? If possible, the price is negotiable!" Li Lin took the overall design of the cylinder block from the engine design drawing He took it out and handed it to the other party.

Spike didn't talk nonsense, so he took it over to have a look.

"Is this a blueprint for an engine?" Spike was a mechanic when he was young, but now he is a production supervisor. But when he looked at the design drawing, he could tell that it was probably a design drawing similar to an engine!

Or a new type of engine design drawing!

"Probably, I wonder if your machinery factory has the technology to customize it?" Li Lin asked with concern.

The cylinder block, referred to as the cylinder block, is also the most difficult part of the engine to manufacture.

The cylinder block is generally made of gray cast iron. The cylindrical cavity on the upper part of the cylinder block is called the cylinder, and the lower half is the crankcase supporting the crankshaft, and its inner cavity is the space for the crankshaft to move. There are many reinforcing ribs, cooling water jackets and lubricating oil passages cast inside the cylinder block.

Why is this cylinder difficult to manufacture.

First of all, there is no doubt that the quality of steel is better.

The biggest difficulty is drilling and grinding.

Since the cylinder block is located in the heart of the engine, since the castings are all blanks when they are just produced, there is great uncertainty. Moreover, the deviation of each workpiece may cause problems such as overcutting during the processing, or the inability to effectively remove the residual amount of the riser and flash, which will have a great impact on the grinding quality of the cylinder body.

Inside, there are high requirements for drilling equipment and precision.

"The design drawing is very detailed. As long as you follow the above dimensions and requirements, there should be a high chance that you can customize it!" Spike said slowly after making an estimate.

"That's good, that's good!" Li Lin breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that the other party would say no!

"However, if I want to secretly customize it for you, it will be very difficult and troublesome for me to do it! Our machinery factory will definitely take our orders during normal working hours, and our machinery factory will definitely not accept individual orders like yours. It will be picked up separately. It is too time-consuming and labor-intensive! If I give you this thing for custom production, I will also dispatch mechanics, drillers, grinders, etc., and I will take a lot of risks when it works... " Spike narrowed his eyes.

Li Lin knew that the other party was going to negotiate a price: "I don't know how much price can satisfy Spike?"

"Five thousand pounds!" Spike the lion said loudly.

In fact, he often does private work, for example, some small workshops suddenly design some new motorcycle engines, or car engines, or some other mechanical equipment.

After all, many mechanics love to invent these days, and they all want to develop a mechanical product that shocks the world.

be the boss.

He usually charges several hundred pounds for customization.

Why did you charge 5,000 pounds for facing Li Lin?

First, he felt that Li Lin was making too much money in the No. 5 perfume business. A bottle of perfume sold for 20 pounds. His wife bought five bottles recently, which made his heart hurt. The price is too black-hearted!

The second one, seeing that Li Lin is a Chinese, who is not going to cheat him?

He is very clear that the Huaxia people have no influence here, they are all weak bones, and he will be sorry for himself if he doesn't blackmail the other party!

Li Lin and the others frowned after hearing this.

"Mr. Spike, your asking price is too outrageous! Five thousand pounds is too expensive!" Li Er immediately couldn't help but angrily said.

You know, a worker's salary is only twenty or thirty pounds a month, and you pay five thousand pounds?

unacceptable!

"Mr. Spike, do you think I will offer five thousand pounds to customize this cylinder?" Li Lin said coldly.

"You two, I believe that when you designed this cylinder block, you must want to develop some kind of engine. I can tell you this, only our machinery factory in Liverpool can manufacture this cylinder block! And the quality is still excellent, Even if some other small and medium-sized machinery factories can develop it, I am afraid that the quality is not good, or even unqualified, and you still have to come to me. In addition, in the whole of England, except for our head office, it is estimated that only our branch factory has this kind of technology Yes! Even if you go to the head office, I guess the asking price is higher, and there is no way to customize it privately, I advise you to think about it." Spike said in the presence of the old god.

Li Lin listened and knew that what the other party said was true.

After all, at present, the automobile engine has only just been invented for a few years, and the aircraft engine has not yet come out.

Manufacturing power equipment technology, the highest is indeed these machinery factories that manufacture power equipment for ships!

It's not that they can invent and manufacture an excellent engine, but that they can use the equipment and technology of drilling and grinding cylinders to manufacture the engine components and parts you want according to your design drawings Come!

"How about fifteen hundred pounds?" Li Lin said with a sullen face.

"No, no, I don't think you understand me? It's five thousand pounds! Now you are begging me, not me." Spike said as if he was convinced of you.

"In this case, we would rather go to another machinery factory." Li Lin was not stupid, and it was obvious that the other party was ripping off.

"Please!" Spike felt that Li Lin would have to come back to find him unless he went to other countries to order! He is not in a hurry.

After walking out of the box.

Li Er cursed and said: "You bastard, this is obviously trying to trick us!"

"Five thousand pounds, thanks to the export he opened!" Li Biao also said indignantly.

"Xiao Lin, shall I go and find other machinery factories?" Li Er asked seeing that Li Lin was silent.