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The liveliness in the gunsmithing workshop is no less than that of the gunsmithing workshop, and the noise is much higher than that of the gunsmithing workshop. The work shed here is also built with wooden trusses, and the internal height is raised to more than five meters.

There are large windows on all sides to improve ventilation and lighting inside the work shed.

Even though it is only early spring and the weather is still quite chilly, it is still very hot in the work shed.

There are dozens of furnaces lined up in the work shed. Next to each furnace, there is an anvil and an iron workbench. In addition, next to the workbench, there are shelves of different styles for placing raw materials and finished products.

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On each workbench, there are special tooling jigs or molds. Next to each stove, there is also a craftsman and two apprentices, who are busy knocking.

The gun production now fully adopts the standardized assembly line operation method and is divided into several areas. The front area is responsible for processing large pieces of iron materials into rough materials of different sizes and shapes. According to the next step, the craftsmen

The parts to be created are cut out in the required rough shape and then distributed to the next work area for direct use by the next craftsmen.

Most of the craftsmen in this area are not very good at craftsmanship, or simply use apprentices. Anyway, they just cut large materials into various small materials, and do not require too high skills.

The next work area is to enter the parts processing area. According to their respective divisions of labor, the craftsmen use the materials at their respective workbenches to start making parts, but they do not need to completely complete the materials.

For products, they only need to basically make the parts, and then hand them over to the craftsmen in the next process for shaping, grinding or drilling.

The latter work area is responsible for producing finished parts. They place the rough parts created in the previous process on special fixtures for detailed shaping, polishing or drilling. For this purpose, they all have standardized part fixtures.

and molds, which can ensure that the refurbished parts meet the final assembly requirements and control the tolerances to the best achievable state.

The last work area is the work area where finished products are produced. Parts that have been completed and inspected are sent to this work area. The craftsmen here begin to assemble the various parts and finally make them into finished products.

After being sent for verification, qualified products are sent to the warehouse and sealed, waiting for the council to allocate them to various equipment for use.

Of course, gunsmithing is also indispensable, just like artillery crafting, it must be equipped with a carpentry workshop, which is responsible for making wooden butts for guns, while the woodworking shop at the gunsmithing shop is responsible for manufacturing various gun mounts and gun carriages for artillery.

In comparison, the production in the gunsmith's woodworking workshop is simpler. Of course, it is all standardized production. From cutting out materials to drilling, grinding, polishing, and even the final painting, all are handled by dedicated personnel.

In addition, the production quantity of some vulnerable parts must exceed the production quantity of other parts, especially gun barrels, by a certain proportion. They must be stored in the finished product warehouse and allocated to various places for backup. Once gun parts are damaged, parts can be used as soon as possible.

repair.

Behind each work area, there is a full-time inspector who is responsible for inspecting the parts made by the craftsmen in this process, and must put numbers on the parts so that if quality problems arise in the future, the person responsible can be directly investigated.

It is a kind of responsibility check system for the production craftsmen.

And now, with the progress of Sea Wolf's literacy activities, many Sea Wolf tribe members, especially craftsmen, have learned practical and commonly used characters, as well as Arabic numerals, so that the inscriptions on gun parts use Arabic numerals.

Seawolf's gun production is not the work of one craftsman, but a product formed by the wisdom and efforts of many craftsmen. It does not pursue gorgeous decoration, but only pursues practicality, ease of production, and improved production efficiency. Therefore, Seawolf

The guns produced by the gun maker are simple and unpretentious on the surface, but the quality is quite good, far exceeding the blunderbuss made by the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty in this era.

Moreover, gun manufacturers attach great importance to standardized production, and have carefully built various jigs and molds. During inspection, there are also molds specially used to clamp parts. You only need to put the parts into the mold, and you can immediately see whether the part meets the requirements.

The required tolerances are met, and the method of visual inspection by the human eye is completely abandoned, so that product quality is better guaranteed.

In addition, in order to improve efficiency and the processing accuracy of parts, gun manufacturers also attach great importance to the development of some special machinery to assist production and replace all manual production. Although these machines are human-powered machines and are very crude and simple, they are still better than the original ones.

Pure manual work is faster and parts processing is more precise.

For example, in the production of gun barrels, manual bore drilling machines and boring machine tools have been used. In the past, a craftsman could make three or four gun barrels a month. Now, every gun barrel craftsman can make almost three or four barrels in a month.

One can be made every day, and then a dedicated person is responsible for drilling and boring the barrel. The production efficiency is several times or even ten times higher than the previous output, and the quality is guaranteed. The scrap rate is gradually reduced. Now the finished product rate of the barrel has been

Reaching more than 60%, the best craftsmen can increase the finished product rate of the gun barrel to about 80%. In addition to saving a lot of labor, it also reduces the waste of raw materials.

Therefore, the current Tamsui gun factory has a more reasonable layout and higher production efficiency than the gun factory on Nanyue Island.

It's a pity that the number of skilled craftsmen who make gun barrels is still a little small, which makes the output of gun production form a bottleneck. The output of gun production in the two places has always been temporarily hovering at the production of 120 short rifles for navy.

The war camp uses one hundred standard flintlock rifles and less than two hundred double-barreled short muskets. It is temporarily impossible to exceed this number.

If this batch of apprentices can start working as soon as possible, then Seawolf's next step in musket production will be a bigger breakthrough. If the production can reach 500 guns a month, Yu Xiaotian will no longer have to work for his subordinates.

We can't worry about equipping a large number of muskets.

Blacksmith Zhang is now fully focused on the work of Tamsui gunsmithing. In addition to going to various workshop areas to inspect production every day, he also has to take out guns from finished products for inspection every day. In addition, he also has to think about developing new clamps when he has nothing to do.

Tooling, molds and manual simple machinery.

It can be said that Zhang Blacksmith is so busy that he basically lives in the gunsmith at night. But fortunately, this guy is a workaholic and doesn't take it seriously. On the contrary, he takes pleasure in it. For now,

This kind of life is quite enjoyable.

Although there are not as many types of musket products as there are in artillery, there is a lot that can be improved. Now Blacksmith Zhang's interests are changing. In the past, he focused more on developing new guns, but now

When more and more manual machines began to be used in the factory, he began to shift his interest to the development of some new manual machines. Every day, he was thinking about how to create some machines that could not easily control the precision of manual production.

Instead, simple machinery is used for production.

It can be said that this is all the result of Yu Xiaotian, who completely brought Zhang Tiejiang into a new realm and became a fanatical mechanical fan.

When Yu Xiaotian came over this time, Blacksmith Zhang was taking some apprentices to tinker with a newly improved manual machine for drilling bores. Compared with the previous machine, this machine had improved clamps and drill bits.

To make it easier and faster, you can drill the bore of the gun.

In this era, machinery is still in its infancy, and various lathes have not yet been invented. Even if they exist, they are all in their most primitive state, and the power is limited to water power, animal power, and human power, such as steam engines, internal combustion engines, or electric motors.

Such a prime mover has not yet been invented.

A large amount of work is basically done by hand by craftsmen. For example, a nail or a screw must be made by manpower.

Even if we now have mother machines like lathes, everything may not be all right. These lathes can produce other machinery, but if they are used to specialize in the production of some small things, they may not be much more efficient than manual work. Lathes can completely produce

Screws, but if you have to use a lathe to produce screws, the cost is too high, and the efficiency is low, which is no different from hand-made!

When later generations produced screws, sewing needles, nails and other items, they all used special machinery instead of ordinary lathes. That's why later generations had the concept of standard parts. Specialized factories used professional tools according to standards.

Mechanical lathes produce a variety of universal standard parts for use in various tools.

In fact, the mechanized production of later generations only subdivided industrial production, and the development of society was also the result of a gradually more refined social division of labor, far exceeding the ancient social division of labor.

Now that Yu Xiaotian wants to expand industrial production capacity, he has to gradually divide the labor of the people under his jurisdiction. A factory like Gunsmith is the product of this kind of thinking. The next step is to develop other factories among other factories.

In China, this method will be adopted more and more and promoted.

"How's it going? Is this drilling machine more convenient after you modified it like this?" Yu Xiaotian didn't let anyone notify Blacksmith Zhang who was busy at work, and walked directly behind Blacksmith Zhang.

Zhang Tiejiang was so focused on the things at hand that he didn't hear Yu Xiaotian's voice and said impatiently: "Don't bother me, you go about your business! I'm busy with mine, don't delay mine.

thing!"

"Bold! Lao Zhang, don't even look who is coming! How dare you do this..." Liu Wang, who was following Yu Xiaotian, immediately stared at Blacksmith Zhang and yelled, but before he could finish his words, Yu Xiaotian was

He interrupted, glared at him, and swallowed the rest of his words abruptly.