A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Master Qin laughed heartily: "Not yet, but does Xiao Jiang have any new ideas? I can give it a try!"

"Hey, it's something that might be used on a lathe, we just added a few extra springs..."

Master Qin took the blueprints and was immediately taken aback. This wasn't just a simple matter of adding springs. However, Master Qin still readily agreed.

Meanwhile, the workshop workers had also finished making their parts.

Ma Zhendong, together with Jiang Xia, measured all of these parts.

According to the dimensions of these parts, Jiang Xia grouped those with similar errors together.

Analyzer started!

Sure enough, it's red with a hint of green. It works!

The craftsmen who produced the functional parts were grouped together according to their assigned numbers.

"Master chefs, take a look, aren't all of these freshly made by yourselves?"

The newly assigned masters were puzzled, but they all stepped forward and carefully inspected the items.

"No mistake, we made it ourselves."

"Okay, please pay attention from now on!"

With Ma Zhendong's help, Jiang Xia quickly assembled the engine without stopping.

Apply lubricant, add fuel, and crank the crank in one smooth motion.

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat~~"

The engine emitted a plume of black smoke and ran smoothly.

"What? It can run already?"

"Hey, I told you, this engine recognizes its owner. Look, as soon as Engineer Jiang installed it, it started beeping obediently!"

"Engineer Xiao Jiang is practically the father of this engine. If he doesn't even greet his own father, that's unacceptable!"

"Hahaha~~~"

Another steady master craftsman raised his wrist to check his watch, saying, "No rush, no rush, don't forget that one of the machines we installed has been running for ten minutes!"

The other workers also remembered the lone machine that had been running for fifteen minutes, and they all shrank back a little.

Even worse, some people brought over several iron plates and placed them in front of themselves.

Ma Zhendong suddenly remembered, his face turned pale, and he pulled Jiang Xia to squat behind a pair of pliers.

"What's wrong? Uncle Ma, this isn't a bomb!"

Ma Zhendong pointed to a charred patch on the test bench.

"Was anyone hurt?"

"No. The chief engineer was in a hurry to check the situation and got burned."

"Hey~~ Old man, why didn't you say so? I had some badger oil here. Is it badly burned?"

Ma Zhendong shook his head. "My arm got burned, but it should be fine through the clothes."

Jiang Xia finally breathed a sigh of relief. Ma Zhendong glanced at his watch: "Five minutes have passed."

"Tsk, how come you all have watches? Are watch vouchers so easy to find these days?"

"You don't need a watch voucher, there are plenty in the trust store. Some foreign watches are only a hundred or so!"

Jiang Xia pouted: "Uncle Ma, you're getting cocky. Just a moment ago you were worried about not having enough money to support your parents, and now you're wearing a watch?"

Just as he was wondering whether he should get one to wear, Ma Zhendong nudged him again: "Hey, it's strange, how come yours can spin? Does it have to be a real child to work?"

"Hey, with the same standard and similar part sizes, it's no wonder it can't turn! From now on, the mechanics in this group will be in the same group for the engine; parts from this group cannot be used interchangeably with those from other groups!"

Ma Zhendong nodded thoughtfully.

Twenty minutes later, the masters all emerged from their hiding place.

Next up is the second group, the third group...

In this way, the number of parts on the platform gradually decreased, while the number of engines on the test bench increased.

In the end, only one match remained.

A mirrored gear, especially dazzling, particularly with a small mark engraved on it.

Looking at the remaining parts and its maker, Jiang Xia had a headache.

What should I do? Urgent!

Perhaps sensing Jiang Xia's hesitation, Ma Zhendong stepped forward.

"Master Yi, this workpiece is excellent, but it's too intricate. We can't find suitable team members! And why did you make a mark on it?"

The eighth-grade worker's face was flushed red, whether from anger or embarrassment, it was hard to tell.

Master Qin walked over at this moment, looked at the workpiece that Yi Zhonghai had polished so much that it could be used as a mirror, and smirked.

"Why don't you work on the cylinder rings with me, sir? I'm getting old and my hands and feet can't keep up anymore."

Yi Zhonghai wasn't stupid; he knew when to back down. He certainly didn't want to be kicked out of this newly established workshop.

Something happened here.

Master Qin took Jiang Xia to the warehouse that was used to store miscellaneous items from the former machinery factory to find the chuck.

He discovered that the thing Jiang Xia had asked him to make was actually a lathe fixture, except that the existing fixture was ring-shaped, and Jiang Xia had modified it into a three-jaw type.

There are just some stepper gears inside the fixture.

In this way, modifying existing stock from the machine factory is much faster than making something from scratch.

After searching for a while, Master Qin quickly found two chucks wrapped in oil paper.

"Xiao Jiang! Found it, shall we go?"

Not hearing a response from Jiangxia, Master Qin turned around to look.

Jiang Xia was squatting in front of a long, rectangular object covered with an oilcloth, seemingly wanting to lift it up to see what was inside.

Master Qin put down the workpiece he was holding and walked over.

"Hey, I thought it had been sold for scrap metal, but it turns out it's still in the warehouse."

"Scrap metal?" Jiang Xia turned around and gave Master Qin a strange look.

"That's not how it is. It seems that this machine was moved to the old machinery factory when the People's Republic of China was founded. It's been sitting there for more than ten years and no one has ever used it."

"Later, a group of people wearing glasses took it apart, saying they wanted to study its structure. But once it was taken apart, it couldn't be put back together, and it's been gathering dust in a corner ever since."

Jiangxia beckoned Master Qin to come forward, and the two of them pulled the oilcloth apart.

After the dust settled, Jiang Xia carefully examined the long machine in front of him.

machine tool!

A very long machine tool!

A machine tool unlike any other in the entire steel rolling mill!

The lathe is 6 meters long, and its huge slide box has two large tool posts, a large carriage, a middle slide, and a small tool post.

Two lead screws and two ball screws extend along the swallow-shaped tailstock into the feed box under the main shaft box. Although it is covered in scars and looks somewhat dilapidated, the scattered parts on the ground make it look like a wounded warrior.

Jiang Xia picked up a gear from the ground. It was covered in black mud, and the roots of the teeth were even broken.

But when Jiang Xia touched away the black mud, the gear immediately revealed its gleaming silver body.

"Ten years? No one's been taking care of it, and it hasn't even rusted!"

He walked over to the lathe and wiped the dust off the guide rails.

Jiang Xia's eye twitched violently a few times. Damn it. These scraping marks haven't even been worn away!

"Master Qin, do you still have the instruction manual for this machine?"

Master Qin shrugged. "What instruction manual? If we had one, we wouldn't be letting it gather dust, would we?"

Jiang Xia picked up the scattered parts from the ground, found a wooden box, and put them away one by one.

They covered it back with the tarpaulin.

"Alright, let's go, Master Qin. Let's get the fixture ready quickly. Master Ning is waiting."

"Hey, you're always in a rush, whether you're in a hurry or not. Let's hurry up, those springs you want are really hard to get, we need to go over there and take a few off."

Jiangxia closed the warehouse door, taking one last reluctant look at the burly figure under the tarpaulin.

The analyzer in front of me was a deep orange-red.

“KUNZMANN32/8 German heavy-duty multi-functional self-propelled lathe”.

Current status: Battle damaged

Missing parts: WNF-2 special alloy cutter head, gearbox...

"Review: A classic that will live on forever."