It took more than a year, let the most skilled technical workers with machine tools, and even manual grinding, finally succeeded in processing a cylinder, using this cylinder, Diesel completed a variety of experiments, the experimental results show that when the cylinder bore reaches one meter, a single horsepower can reach 2000 horsepower, with his most mature four-cylinder and six-cylinder design, can fully meet the design parameters of 6000 horsepower, and can even exceed 10,000 horsepower. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, the world's impact high-horsepower engine is a trend, the reason why 6000 horsepower was chosen as a design goal, is because of the requirements of the German government, because the British launched a dreadnought equipped with steam turbines, so that the warship entered the dreadnought era, and all previous warships were outdated overnight.

Naturally, the Germans also wanted to develop their own dreadnoughts, but unlike the British, they did not have coaling ports all over the world, and if there was a war, there was a situation where the Russian Navy did not have a port to refuel coal in the Russo-Japanese War, it was obviously unacceptable to the Germans.

The diesel engine with smaller size and higher fuel thermal efficiency fell into the eyes of the Germans, and a refueling could be driven directly from Europe to the East, which made the diesel engine the first choice of the German army and favored by the navy more than the steam turbine.

Therefore, in 1909, the Germans first asked the MAN Company, which was the most technologically advanced in Germany and could already produce 800 horsepower diesel engines, hoping that they could develop a 6000 horsepower engine, and at this time Diesel could already produce a 2000 horsepower engine, and his German background naturally fell into the eyes of the German Navy.

But the Germans made a request, like Mann, not to allow Diesel to transfer patents to other foreign companies.

This was in line with Diesel's goal of seeking a breakthrough, and the two sides hit it off, and Diesel soon accepted the task of developing a 6,000-horsepower engine, and the Germans also helped, and many technicians were transferred from Qingdao to polish the first cylinder.

After the experiment, it was time to install the machine, which was also a difficult problem.

With a cylinder bore of 1 meter, even the arsenal did not have a boring machine with such a large borehole, and after research, the Germans decided to design a special heavy machine.

The length of this machine tool reached 30 meters, 15 meters wide, 10 meters high, the Germans said that this will be the world's largest machine tool, and the design of this machine tool, is already in Shandong put into production of the German machine tool giant Heath company design and production, the final design finalization, plus the console, etc., the total length of more than 50 meters, is simply a monster.

Such a monster does not mention production, just the installation itself is a large-scale project.

First of all, the foundation, Diesel poured a large concrete block 100 meters long, 50 meters wide and 20 meters thick with the finest concrete, and then poured a 3-meter-thick, 20-by-20-wide cast iron block in the center of the square, to which the entire machine was installed.

The outer shell of the factory building is also made of reinforced concrete, and the wall thickness is more than 3 meters, which is almost the whole space made of steel.

The reason why we do this is to reduce our own vibration and reduce external interference.

After the concrete and cast iron were poured, they waited quietly for a year to let the concrete and cast iron frame release the stress in addition to the machine tool, but even so, Heath said that it could not guarantee that the machine would be in the best condition, and that it would be perfect if it could wait more than five years.

But who can wait five years? Yang Chao couldn't wait at first, so he made another move, let the spaceship sneak into the factory, and used super technological means to eliminate the stress in it, and even repaired the small pores in the cast iron and the micro cracks in the cement.

It took three months for Heath to carefully install the machine in place and then start commissioning.

Under such an exaggerated technology, the cylinder that Diesel needs can finally be perfectly produced, with the ability to produce 1000 mm cylinders, it is certainly not only Diesel one, Sulzer of Switzerland is actually processing a cylinder like this, and this year is also processing such a cylinder, but the meaning is completely different, Diesel is installing equipment for mass production, Sulzer is just proving his technical ability, not the same.

Originally, Sulzer was the first company to manufacture a 1-meter cylinder engine, but this engine was not put into production, but has been exhibited as a display, because the 1-meter cylinder has always been a discipline since its appearance, and it took more than 50 years for someone to break this record.

But in this history, Yang Chao helped Diesel complete this record ahead of schedule, not only earlier than Surshou, but also ready for mass production, and the history of technology was reversed by Yang Chao again, and a crooked branch grew on the technology tree.

"Wow, what a big guy!"

When he arrived at the factory, Yang Chao looked at the tall machine tool with his head held high, not only sighed, but he was very happy in his heart, this is science and technology, it is necessary to have the courage to challenge, such a heavy machine tool, which is probably equivalent to the CNC center of later generations, is a symbol of high technology.

Yang Chao also knows that many of the technologies used above are unique, for example, Siemens has artificially made three super large coils for this machine tool to rotate the same rotating shaft, because this rotating shaft is too long, they have to be separated by two meters and packed into three places, otherwise there will be serious tremor during the rotation process, which will affect the machining accuracy.

"Let's get started!"

Yang Chao said, pressed the motor button, and there were bursts of applause around, which even overwhelmed the sound of the machine tool rotating, and the machine tool was really quiet enough, which showed that the vibration was really not big.

Sure enough, you need an electric motor, not a diesel engine or a steam engine, so Diesel also installed a 5,000 kilowatt generator set in the distance to supply power to this big guy and the plant.

More than 30 technicians wearing clean and tight clothes have been busy in front of the machine tool in a hurry, the machine tool with a large motor slid on the track, slowly entered the knife, and soon came into contact with a 2-meter-thick solid cast steel cylinder, squeaked, and a circle of metal wires was drilled out.

The feed is slow, and the technician doesn't stop to measure the data, everything is perfectly normal.

Of course, it is normal, the guide rails, ball screws and other components of this machine tool, Yang Chao has used the processing capacity of the spaceship to carry out the second processing, at this time this machine tool is not only the largest in the world, but also the most sophisticated.

1 meter diameter cylinder, 2 meters of hole depth, a successful drilling, must also be a successful drilling, before is because there is no machine tool that can drill at one time, has to drill two by two, so it is unqualified again and again.

Now with this big guy, it can be produced in large quantities, and the first generation of engines has found a seller, which is the German Navy, which is in fierce competition with the British Navy, this engine will be installed on a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser that is about to be launched in Qingdao, and then begin to test, and the results of the test will be shared with Germany.

The German Navy, this is the big deal, they don't care if they sell an engine to them for 100,000 dollars, and if you sell it to others, they will be crooked.

Yang Chao is still satisfied with the development of Diesel and has cooperated with steel mills and arsenals, especially the final choice to build a factory in Laiwu makes Yang Chao even more happy.

Of course, the Germans wanted Diesel to go to Qingdao, and even offered the land for free, but they really didn't pay attention to Diesel at first, and they could help Zeppelin build a factory, but they didn't bother Diesel at all.

Diesel has always been in the Laiwu Arsenal, he is inextricably linked with this factory, and after the Laiwu Steelmaking Plant was put into operation, it has become Diesel's largest supplier of raw materials, so it is the best choice to choose Laiwu, but the shipyard is in Yantai and Qingdao, and the factory is placed near the sales market, or near the origin of raw materials, which is an eternal industrial layout dispute.

Diesel even thought about building a factory in the middle of the market and raw materials, such as Weifang, which connects Yantai and Qingdao at the same time, and even selected a site to build a diesel engine plant in Weifang, but finally gave up, because this was Diesel's first factory, and he still needed to work closely with the Laiwu Arsenal, so he stayed in Laiwu.

Yang Chao also attached great importance to Diesel, but did not include Diesel as a leading enterprise, because Yang Chao found that whether it was manufacturing engines for ships, trains, and airships, Diesel was just a parts supplier, and he could never become a leading enterprise like Airship Company and Siemens, even if he was very high-tech.

Therefore, in Yang Chao's next stage of industrial planning, there is no place for Diesel, he can only rely on his own strength and develop slowly.

That's right, Yang Chao's new round of industrial plans has begun to be planned, although the war in the north has not yet ended, and the two sides are still facing each other in the ice and snow, and the battle will happen again, at least three months later, at the turn of spring and summer, but Yang Chao has begun to plan the next round of industrial development.

Because it is now March 1912, if history has not changed, there are only two years left before the First World War, which happens to be a round of construction of industrial enterprises, and even large factories cannot be put into production, but in the first year of the war, there can not be much demand, and Western countries have to be given a year to consume their stockpiles of ammunition.

Therefore, Yang Chao has three years to fully promote a large-scale industrial investment.

It's just a trouble that two years ago, because of overheated investment, he even launched a war to defuse this craze, and now he wants to promote this craze, but it has become a big problem, and Yang Chao has to think of some way to at least restore the confidence of the Germans to invest in China. (To be continued.) )