Chapter 49: Mine’s better than yours (1/2)

Chapter 49: Mine’s better than yours

Translated by me, edited by drpetro.

“Do you know how to mill propellers?”

“In all of Zhongyun, there isn’t a single factory that will boast they can mill propellers, not even Huaxing Heavy Industry can do it!”

“You definitely don’t understand what complex curved surface processing means, and also don’t know that for a new design is required whenever a five axis CNC mill is used to mill a new propeller.”

“High speed propellers have extremely high requirements for the precision levels of the seven fans. So you clearly know nothing. To mill these kind of complex curved surfaces, a normal five axis CNC mill can only use it’s ball head router bits.”

“Using a ball head bit to mill the curved surfaces, with the bit’s center line as point of origin, tell me how you’re going to ensure the needed precision levels?”

“You know nothing and yet tell us to mill a pair of propellers?”

The foreman is not only pissed but also found it ridiculous as he spewed a bunch of technical bullshit.

The other workers also fill Ye Qing in some common knowledge within the industry, saying that without a specialized vertical five axis coupling, to mill out a standardized seven fan high speed propeller is nothing more than joke.

They even guaranteed that if installed, within a couple of nautical miles, the propellers will definitely facture and become unusable.

“Hahahaha ~ Seriously look at yourself. What a freaking joke, even CNC milling centers,” Said the young man who was just in the water, maybe because he wanted to show off his superiority in front of a lady. He basically put Ye Qing, with his full set of brand names, as a his arch nemesis.

Xia Muqing naturally stood on Ye Qing’s side. Not mentioning their cooperations together, just him saving her life before is more than enough for her to stand with Ye Qing to the bitter end.

“Why don’t you just say you can’t make it, what’s the deal with standing there and laughing at his ideas?” Xia Muqing coldly and angrily stared at these people.

“Sure sure, alright stop laughing, get to work.” The foreman loudly proclaimed, except that within a couple of seconds, he once again burst out laughing.

“You can’t mill it is because you don’t have the technical ability to.”

Ye Qing didn’t get angry, rather smiled to Xia Muqing to indicate that it’s fine: “If propellers are this difficult to make, then let me ask you, how much does it cost to import a pair of them?”

“Not too much, a pair of seven fan propellers is only 24,000. There are some factories which can make them domestically, but their precision is a bit subpar.” The foreman clearly knows Ye Qing isn’t short on money as the watch on his wrist can easily substitute for several pairs of them.

But this still doesn’t mean that they can admit that their shipyard is lacking the technical abilities to make them.

“Such a cheap price, yet you guys can’t make them. If it isn’t because you guys don’t have the technical abilities to do so then what else is there?”

The foreman smiled with disdain: “Go ahead and make them, I’ll give you a year, and if you do make them I’ll pay you 100,000 for them.”

“I’ll pay a million!” A worker who was securing cables on the yacht to pull it on shore called out.

Ye Qing sighed, turned around and headed off into his factory.

Xia Muqing hurried chased up and urged: “Mr. Ye there’s no need for you to be angry.”

“What? No. I’m really not.” Ye Qing actually wasn’t angry at all.

“Then you……” Xia Muqing believed that Ye Qing was pissed beyond belief and couldn’t stand it anymore.

“I’m going back to make a pair of them.” Ye Qing smiled at her.

“You…… what did you say?” Xia Muqing was now completely shocked beyond belief. Although Tiancheng mining corporation doesn’t own any milling centers, they do however possess mountains of machineries. Definitely enough to fill up all of Dragon Creek beach.

Xia Muqing naturally understood some of the machine processing, hence her extreme shock, and believed that Ye Qing was only talking nonsense.

“Bro, how can you actually be this peeved!” If the two were quite familiar with each other, Xia Muqing right now would definitely go up to Ye Qing and see if he’s running a fever.

“Aren’t propellers only made by propeller factories? So you clearly understand that specialists are required for this.”

“I know ~” Ye Qing put up an air of sullen and melancholy.

“But……”

“But I don’t know why, but just there at the dock, I saw you extremely depressed upon hearing the need to wait for at least a week before it can be repaired.”

“I’m…… I’m just really heartbroken.”

“Hence ~ I’m going to hand make a pair of propellers as a gift for you!”

Xia Muqing’s shock right now had already exceeded that of seeing ghosts, instead it’s the complicated expression of someone sees an angel and a demon kissing.

“Hahahaha ~” Ye Qing seeing that inconceivable looks of her, couldn’t hold it back anymore, as he hugged his stomach and bursted out laughing.

Him wanting to create the propellers is purely because he doesn’t want the yacht to moor here for that long. Plus, there’s actually materials for making the propellers within the workshop.

Civilian used propellers are generally made of copper alloy, aluminum alloy or stainless steel, as all other common metals are relatively easy to corrode and rust.

There’s piles of aluminum alloy in the workshop, and their thickness is just right for making those seven fan propellers.

As the number of fan blades decrease for a propeller, the curvature of the fans will increase dramatically, hence the need for an increase in the material’s strength and thickness.