Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 37 Preparing to Purchase Radio and Machine Tools

It's not that Ren Zhong couldn't find other radio information, but relatively speaking, PARASET, which should be released in the world of Bright Sword next year (1941), has relatively complete imitation information on the Internet, with step-by-step DIY teaching materials and fan exchange groups. Although it is bird language, for liberal arts students like Ren Zhong who have passed the 4th level of bird language, general bird language written communication is not a big problem, not to mention there are so many online translation tools that can be used.

There are people who teach the production step by step, and the popularity among the enthusiasts is also very good. It is much better than other radios, such as the Japanese Type 94 No. 3B radio.

Moreover, in terms of performance, the communication range of this radio that can be carried by a single soldier is sufficient for use in the current base. According to the performance test of American radio enthusiasts, this small radio with a transmission power of only 2 watts can fully achieve communication throughout the meter!

With performance like this, what else do you need a bicycle for? Just get on with it.

For the current base, it is completely sufficient. Even from the border areas to the south of the Yangtze River, the northern frontier and the northeast, this one can handle it.

"Xiaofeng, are you free?" When Ren Zhong called the last classmate who had not yet become a tool, Song Xiaofeng's fate was already doomed.

Without saying much, Song Xiaofeng became the second employee of the toy company as vice president. However, his main focus was to develop PARASET, and Zhao Lidong could not control him. In the future, he was solely responsible for the development and production of retro communication equipment from World War II, including retro radios, retro telephones, and retro walkie-talkies.

Ren Zhong has good reasons for his investment, because just like Zhao Lidong's retro simulation model guns, he is targeting the adult military enthusiasts market. The two types of products complement each other, and in the future these players will be able to bring their radios with them to fight in large groups!

As for whether this company can grow bigger and stronger in the main plane market, Ren Zhong himself has no hope at all. His main purpose is to fool Zhao Lidong and Song Xiaofeng into getting excited. As a tool, the most important thing is to complete the task.

Anyway, once these things are done, these tools will soon move on to other things. Even a liberal arts student will be forced to switch careers and start an engineering business.

Of course, Ren Zhong did not expect these two guys to get these things done. He was very clear about finding professionals. Their role was to be project managers and then try to find some professionals to form a temporary team to develop and complete these projects.

It's just that there is no need to recruit Ren Zhong as a full-time employee. After all, this kind of thing is basically a one-time deal in the real world. It will be good enough if they understand the entire design and production process and can produce it according to the drawings and detailed process instructions in the world of Bright Sword.

The main purpose of the main plane is to conduct a retro proofing and production test of the process flow.

As for the production technology level and the components and raw materials used, Ren Zhong restricted them to using as much as possible what could be produced in the 1940s.

The main focus is the authentic retro style.

Having said that, Ren Zhong was a little more lenient when it came to electronic components. He just used vacuum tubes and old-style capacitors and resistors. If he couldn't find any, he would use something close to vacuum tubes. Digital logic devices were never used unless absolutely necessary.

Moreover, they need to find a replacement for the original historical products, preferably products without any brand name, so that Ren Zhong can use them when he brings them back to the world of Sword and Fairy in the future without any explanation. Electronic components are relatively small, and after several recent tests, Ren Zhong can carry them back by wrapping them up, so there is no need for the Sword and Fairy world to search all over the world for these scarce items that were difficult to obtain in the last century.

According to the number of components of the PARASET radio station that Ren Zhong is currently researching, after they are packaged, the required number of 20 to 30 units can be produced at a time.

As for the structural components such as the box and knobs which take up a lot of space, they do not require much technical content and can be produced in the world of Bright Sword.

In this way, if we calculate the demand, even if it is configured to the battalion level, the base now has less than a hundred regiments, and the total demand is only a few hundred sets at most. This amount can be completely handled by Ren Zhong's human sales.

Having temporarily solved the development plan for communication equipment, Ren Zhong’s goal turned to the two most painful problems: metallurgy and mechanical processing!
The war in the world of Bright Sword will ultimately need to be resolved through a torrent of steel. To produce a huge amount of steel, there is no possibility of bringing in the required raw materials from the main plane.

War is all about logistics, and the most important thing is to ensure the supply of weapons and ammunition. In the world of Bright Sword, completing the Great Leap Forward in steel production and carrying out large-scale weapons and ammunition production is Ren Zhong's ultimate mission.

After all, according to the development of the original time and space, the base could not solve this problem even if it drove away the Japanese devils. The main source of weapons still came from various combat spoils.

The biggest shortcoming is the lack of metallurgical and mechanical processing industries to form a barrier. To put it simply, there is a lack of industrialized metallurgical blast furnaces and various machine tools required for mechanical processing, such as lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, milling machines, grinders, punching machines, planing and slotting machines, and welding machines.
These machine tools will still be the foundation of industry even a hundred years later, they have just been updated.

However, when Ren Zhong began to learn more about machine tools, he found that it is not easy to achieve independent production in this industry, even now.

It is easy to buy a machine tool, and ordinary machine tools can be bought for tens of thousands of yuan, but to build an ordinary machine tool, Ren Zhong estimated that it would cost more than one million yuan. From materials, design to processing, it is a one-stop service. The purchase of tool steel is not a problem, but it is not easy to design a machine tool that can be processed and manufactured during World War II.

Looking at so many complex machine tools and equipment, Ren Zhong did not give up.

After searching, he found a manual punch press that was the easiest to use and decided to try it out first.

From the information collected, this manual punch press basically has the simplest structure, does not require electricity, and has fewer electrical equipment. According to the product description, the maximum punching force of this manual punch press can reach 500 kg. For other mechanical processing, this punching force is just a tickle, but Ren Zhong saw the potential of this manual punch press in the manufacture of bullet casings. This punching force should be basically enough to process thin brass sheets.

Ren Zhong didn't think he had the ability to build a simple machine tool by himself, so he decided to spend money and find a machining factory or an expert in machining to get it done.

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