Entering the next link is stamping casting, at this time the blade blank is just a flat plate, and the rotation will not produce wind. It needs to be put into the mold for cold forging, and the press is pressed the die, and the blades that are originally flat are pressed out of the arc, and the curved shape of the blades can fan the air to form an air flow.

The full shape of the fan blades has come out, but there are still a lot of burrs on the edges and corners, and the burrs need to be removed with a sander and a file to smooth the surface and edges, and no longer cut the hand.

This is followed by welding and painting, where three droplet blades are welded to the spindle to make a complete fan blade, which is then sprayed with dark blue paint.

An ordinary sheet of iron was rubbed like plasticine in the hands of these fitters, and in less than five minutes it became a perfect sash.

Chen Xu looked at the whole process with a relaxed heart, what a powerful industrial soft power this is! Using such an experienced veteran mechanic to build an electric fan is only qualified for such a luxury in China.

From this small fan blade, he sees the country's solid heavy industry foundation.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these fitters who are sweaty, working in a workshop full of oil stains and cacophony noises are ordinary workers. What Chen Xu saw was the family wealth that Grandpa Mao had accumulated over the past 30 years, and these workers were the most expensive wealth in the country.

It's like a person who has been practicing hard for thirty years, as long as he learns swordsmanship or boxing, he will soon become a peerless master. What these fitters have excellent craftsmanship lacks is the matching industrial design.

Chen Xu walked around the workshop and saw the advantages of this workshop, but the shortcomings could not be ignored, and even so strict that he covered up all the advantages.

Especially the most important safety issue, there are no safety measures in the entire production process, for example, Zhong Siyang, a big man, is actually wearing an undershirt, neither wearing an anti-cut suit nor anti-cutting gloves, and wearing ordinary pull-back rubber shoes on his feet, rather than anti-smashing iron scalp shoes. He just worked shirtlessly, without any protective measures, with a sharp cutter. It makes people's hearts beat faster when they look at it, and the slightest carelessness of gears that can cut steel can dismember a person in an instant.

Another example is that during stamping and casting, workers even chatted with their co-workers while smoking, and their eyes did not look at the lathe, and they couldn't react at all if an accident occurred.

The whole workshop is a very simple and primitive fan assembly line, although the workers do not have a sense of safety production, and the production environment is harsh, but every worker has been able to complete the work at hand quickly and accurately, without affecting the quality of the product.

The strictest zhòng is the low comprehensive cost-effectiveness ratio of the entire workshop, with the senior technicians who have spent more than ten years to train, and the precious man-hours are spent to create such an electric fan, how much can it be sold for?

Also handmade, a Rolls-Royce can sell for millions of dollars!

The only difference is that there is a highly educated and highly qualified industrial design team behind the support. One is to rely on dozens of workers to design products, many workers here have never even read a few books in their lives, and they want to break their heads to design nothing more than pots and pans, electric fans and other daily necessities.

In Chen Xu's view, the manual workers in the Rolls-Royce factory are not necessarily better than the fitters in this workshop!

Holding the fan blades and looking up and down, Chen Xu looked around and found no other parts, and said strangely: "Is this workshop only responsible for the production of blades?" What about the motor, housing, and cover of the fan? ”

"They are all produced in this workshop, but they are cast separately, and we all make the blades according to the order quantity, and then make the motor, shell, etc., and finally assemble and combine them into an electric fan." Zhong Jian saw Chen Xu walking down in this circle, his eyes kept looking at the workers, and he nodded from time to time, and the secret snickering of the gods made him a little frightened, could it be that this kid has some special hobbies, and he has to remind the young men in the workshop when he goes back......

Zhong Jian took Chen Xu to the warehouse at the back of the workshop, where hundreds of finished electric fans were neatly piled up.

From the outside, these electric fans are all handmade, with a rough mechanical texture, real military quality, and materials regardless of cost. Very durable, good quality has nothing to say, as long as the motor is lubricated and maintained with some oil before use every year, this thing will not break for decades!

Chen Xu walked over and lifted an electric fan, and sure enough, it was quite heavy as he expected, at least about thirty catties.

These electric fans are really just a big iron lump, almost all of them are hand-forged from pure iron from the inside out, and only some of the wire skins are plastic. You don't see, even the knob to adjust the air volume is metal, and it is decorated with chrome in order to look good, making the knob look shiny.

Judging from the appearance, the design of this electric fan is really miserable, and it may look better than it if you let the little pot friends in the kindergarten class design it.

The shape is an ordinary floor fan, with a square base and a square cylindrical support rod and then a motor and fan blades, without the function of shaking the head, nor the function of timing, only the simplest air supply function.

What Chen Xu couldn't tolerate the most was that the protective cover of the fan was not a dense mesh design, but a simple protective cover with eight wires, which could barely protect the blades after the fan knocked down, but the hand could touch the blades lightly. When the blades of such a hard pure iron fan are rotating, if a child's immature hand reaches into it, it will have to break the bone.

This is purely a design issue, not to save materials, after all, the materials used in the entire electric fan are so generous, and it is not necessary to save the wires of the protective cover.

"Old clock, where is the socket, let me see how this electric fan works when it is powered on."

"The socket is in the office, I'll take one." As he spoke, Zhong Jian hooked the wire on the protective cover of an electric fan with two fingers, and walked out with it.

"Let me come!" Chen Xu still knew that he respected the old and loved the young, so he walked over and rushed to mention it.

"Director Chen, you are a cultural person, let us do these rough jobs." Lao Zhong stretched out his hand to stop Chen Xu and didn't let him do it.

When Chen Xu touched Zhong Jian's arm, he felt like he had touched an iron arm, and he couldn't grab the electric fan at all, so he had to give up.

The office is on the left side of the warehouse, and through a corridor of more than ten meters, you can see a simple room with two desks and four large iron cabinets. The room was cluttered, with desks littered with ledgers, dimly lit with only a small window for ventilation, lit by light bulbs hanging from the roof.

Chen Xu didn't say much about such an office environment, in this era, everything is based on production, and happiness should be later, and the working environment is not particular.

Lao Zhong put the electric fan on the desk, then took out a black power strip from under the table and plugged in the power supply for the fan.

The iron knob "clicks" to the first gear, and the electric fan "whirring" rotates to supply air.

The fan vibrates a lot, and the motor is powerful, but the noise can also be described as loud, and the whole office reverberates with the sound of the motor turning. The strong motor makes the air volume very sufficient, you can feel the strong wind blowing on your face, and the corresponding wind noise is not small, which is obviously caused by the unreasonable design of the blades.

After reading the working state of the fan, Chen Xu basically had the bottom of his heart, and it became a top priority to redesign an electric fan.

In fact, after looking at it all the way, he has been constantly revising the design in his mind.

As the first industrial product to prove his existence and ability, Chen Xu decided to perfect it with the most cutting-edge design, and he wanted to turn this electric fan into the Rolls-Royce of the fan world!

With the simplest materials, the most skilled workers, and the main advanced design, this electric fan will become a symbol of the times!

"How much does it cost us to have such an electric fan? How much does it cost to sell for a unit in the end! Chen Xu stood in front of the electric fan with his arms in his hands to blow the wind, but the musty smell in this room penetrated into his nostrils along the wind, making him frown unconsciously.

"The cost of each electric fan is 18 yuan, the seller takes 25 yuan from us, and they finally sell it in the store for about 40 yuan." Zhong Jian obviously knew that the office was too shabby, and tried to tidy up the desk, at least to make the room look neat.

"It's only seven yuan profit, and the income is so low, it's really thankless, no wonder the factory will lose money all year round." Chen Xu shook his head, a thing with a profit of only a few yuan, the sales volume is still so low, it is normal to not make money.

Looking at the rotating fan blades in front of me, I can't help but sigh that the people of this era are sincere, what do electric fans want to do so well, especially the motor even if it is turned on the maximum gear, there is still a margin of 30%, and these margins can well protect the fan from fatigue and aging, and it will not be bad for decades. Unlike the fans of later generations, the maximum gear is basically running at full load, the metal inside the motor will soon fatigue and age, and the life of the electric fan will decline rapidly, and it may break down in a year or two.

Zhong Jian threw a large pile of ledgers into a basket in the corner, and said helplessly: "Now all over the country, but all factories with some ability are making electric fans, if we don't lower the price, people are not willing to come to us to buy." ”

In the past, it was only in China, making money from household appliances such as refrigerators, color TVs, and air conditioners, and everyone built production lines, leading the prices of these household appliances to plummet, and most of the enterprises lost money. Later, the country became the world's factory, what steel mills, photovoltaic power generation, electronics industry, any new foreign invention that can make money as long as the Chinese people crack the copycat, the price will soon be civilian, everyone can afford it.

Foreign companies are holding patent documents and screaming to sue us, but domestic companies don't care about you at all, and the government is also biased towards their own enterprises, after all, they collect taxes, how can they not cover it? At most, the symbolic penalty notice will be rectified, and the company is also very cooperative, changing the appearance of the cottage product, changing the name, and then continuing to sell......

All the products on the earth that can make some money, especially in the low-end industry, are basically devoured by domestic enterprises, and all product prices are pressed to the minimum.