Chapter 50: The best in Zhongyun (1/2)

Chapter 50: The best in Zhongyun

Translated by me, edited by drpetro.

When Ye Qing used a handcart to pull the propellers onto the dock, the yacht had just been secured in place.

Several workers were covered in sweat, squatting on the dock, and smoking while boasting about random things.

The topic was mainly girls, and the content was always on the shady side.

When Ye Qing arrived, the foreman, out of the corner of his eyes, took a glance and without taking him seriously went back to smoking.

Before a breath of smoke could be exhaled, the foreman, as if he had been electrocuted, trembled and violently coughed due to the choked smoke.

*Cough cough* *Cough cough* The foreman turned around again looking like he’s seen a real ghost.

Seven different looks soon followed. First they swept over Ye Qing, then they decided to examine the cart in front of him.

“Ahhh!” The seven workers all stumbled to try to get up, and dropped their smokes everywhere.

“This……This……This……” The foreman ran over to the handcart with a face full of shock and absurdity.

“This is impossible!” The foreman felt the seven fan propellers on the cart, as if stroking a miracle.

“Where did you get these propellers?”

“Oh ~ you mean these?” Ye Qing stared at him with his hands behind his neck: “I just milled these. I’ve got two CNC milling centers and a couple aluminum alloy plates inside the workshop, so I just conveniently made two of them.”

“This is impossible. Impossible!” The foreman as if having been possessed, circled around the propellers non-stop, continuously talking to himself: “Even if there are specific multiple axis milling centers, a single propeller would still take at least four to five hours. How could it be this quick?”

The other seven young workers right now all became mutes. They were all squatting on the dock, shockingly staring at Ye Qing.

To be fair, it’s not like it was possible for them to not be this shocked. Two high end propellers that need to be imported from Germany were in the end, in a bit over an hour, made by a no name workshop.

If anyone else was here, they would all be the same.

This was simply too shocking, too inconceivable.

Everyone had seen the steel workshop in the yard. The yard was full of piles of stone strips, so they naturally all thought that the steel workshop only contained a couple cutting machines to at most, cutting away at those stones.

Cutting stone strips beside the sea is a very reasonable tendency for any proper merchant.

Drawing up water directly from the sea to wash away all the stone powder is a major saving option.

Who would’ve thought that inside that steel workshop, was two five axis CNC milling centers hidden away.

But even if there were five axis CNC milling centers, it doesn’t explain how they were able to mill out this kind of high curvature propellers.

And what’s more, they milled them out in just a bit over an hour! Even with the most sophisticated five axis CNC milling center in the world, it was still next to impossible for it to be this quick.

Unless……

There was only one possibility!

The two milling centers inside are either DMG 2000TC or better.

This kind of complex and leading German industry products was introduced to the world just a couple of years back, and caused quite the ripple on the internet at the time. At the time, it also staggering shocked everyone who was in the mechanical production industry.

Thousands of drill bits automated to mill, to change, and with the ability to do any kind of complex milling process.

This kind of advanced machine has always been embargoed. Even after the 08 recession, there was only the castrated version available for sale.

Its nickname was the all purpose machine. As for the price, not too expensive, just couple of million yuan for only all the drill bits.

To determine the machine cost, you need to consider its components and its functionality; the more functionality it had the more expensive it was. If you want to have high automation functionality, then the price tag it comes to would also skyrocket.

And this was merely for the hardware. The software was even more of a bottomless pit. Those who are able to afford this kind of machine were all in the business of making some highly complex components.