"Grandpa, do you know where there is argon arc welding in our embroidery city?"

"Good grandson, come on, sit next to grandpa." Hu Shiwu smiled and pulled his eldest grandson who was already in high school and pressed him on the kang beside him.

Although he is over fifty years old this year, his years of mechanical processing have trained his body. His tendons and vise-like hands do not show his old appearance at all.

With his thick black hair and his thick eyebrows and big eyes, I believe that even a girl in her early twenties would have to make a secret promise.

"Grandpa, do we have argon arc welding equipment in our embroidery city?"

Hu Shiwu's grandson Hu Wenhai struggled a little awkwardly, but unfortunately, his little arms and legs were not the old man's opponent, so he was easily suppressed. He had to sit honestly on the edge of the kang and was ravaged by his grandfather, and asked his own question again.

"Argon arc welding? What are you looking for this? That thing is powered on, it's very dangerous!"

Hu Shiwu said this, but his trembling beard still showed his heart and was indeed thinking about this issue carefully. It is said that if you hold your grandson but not your son, the old Hu family is also the same. Hu Wenhai is the legitimate son of the Hu family, or the only son of the three generations! Since he started with Hu Shiwu, the old Hu family, he died in a war in the early years, and now he and a younger sister are left.

Hu Shiwu only gave birth to one son, Hu Wenhai's father Hu Jiefang.

Hu Jiefang is in his forties this year, and he is at the age of prosperity of his career. He is usually busy and doesn’t even care about his family. How can he have time to have family happiness with his old man?

So in Hu Shiwu's heart, Hu Wenhai, who has always been well-behaved and clever, is the real heart. Not to mention asking about argon arc welding, even if you walk around the moon, you have to do your best.

"Brother Hu, Daming and others made a toy. Now there is a part that needs to be treated with argon arc welding. But my dad and his factory don't have it, so I have to come to find my grandfather."

In the 1980s, argon arc welding was still in the promotion period in China. Since the 1970s, it has been studied in China. If you want to make great progress in this technology, you have to wait until 1994 and 1995 years later.

However, such welding technology equipment that was a rampant in later generations was still rare in the 1980s. It is not easy to find a company that understands this technology and equipment.

"Go to waste the materials from your father's factory again. He saw that he wouldn't smash your butt!" Hu Shiwu said this, but a sense of pride appeared in his eyes.

This old man is not simple. Although he looks like sitting on the kang and holding his grandson is no different from other old men, when it comes to his identity, even the mayor of the City of Xiu must be polite.

What is this old man’s identity? He is the legendary “level eighth-level worker”!

What is a level 8 worker? It is the wage system implemented by state-owned enterprises. Workers are divided into eight levels by age and technology, and different wages are paid according to the level. These level 8 workers are the top of the pyramid of the working class, equivalent to the legendary sixth-level non-commissioned officer who can compete with generals. They are like sweeping monks who can not worship officials and do not take action at will.

If it weren't for the fact that such a big tree was used to cool off, Hu Wenhai's father Hu Jiefang would not have become the director of a factory in his thirties and had a prosperous career.

"Grandpa, grandpa, just help me!" Hu Wenhai pulled Hu Shiwu's beard, suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and acted coquettishly.

"Okay, tell grandpa, what do you want to do again this time? Isn't your dad not letting you on the workbench?"

As the child of the old Hu family, Hu Wenhai was already running around in the machining workshop when he was six years old. Although he was only in the second year of high school this year, he was proficient in turning, milling, grinding and boring, and was no less than the first and second-level workers he had studied in the factory for five or six years. He was so happy that Hu Shiwu would praise everyone when he met. The old Hu family had successors, so he didn't have to worry about losing his body.

However, since Hu Wenhai wanted to do something about "CNC machine tool" last time, a stepper motor was broken, and since then, Hu has liberated the ban. It will not be easy for him to go to the machine again.

Hu Wenhai said angrily: "Chen Dafu is so tight that I see. Since my father said that, I have not even allowed me to enter the workshop door. This time it was a stainless steel combustion chamber made by Brother Hu, and the processing requirements of the argon arc welding process cannot be met."

"Firehouse?" Hu Shiwu, a level 8 worker, is not a joke. The Republic's high-end equipment comes from him and people like him.

He asked in surprise: "I said good grandson, you are electric and fire again. I really can't understand it. Could it be that you still want to build rockets?"

"Hehe, it's almost the same." Hu Wenhai smiled proudly, twisted his body and said, "Grandpa, please help me. If the things are ready, I'll ask you to see if you want it?"

Hu Shiwu thought about it and said that although his grandson was only seventeen years old this year, the talent he showed in machining over the past few years is really not simple.

In addition, he was born in such a family and had been dealing with drawings and equipment since he was a child, and his technical level was absolutely good. During the summer vacation of the sixth grade of elementary school, other people's children were still playing war games with wooden sticks, but he had already built a two-meter-long boat model with a few young people in the factory that could run on the sea!

At most, when other people's children use monkey rubber bands to make wooden racks and planes, they build a tin P-51 by themselves and equipped them with radio remote control!

In normal times, it’s no problem to make remote-controlled cars or ships occasionally. The most troublesome time was to build an electromagnetic cannon, which destroyed the satellite receiving antenna in his father’s factory.

Although he has caused so many disasters, his father Hu Jiefang has been in a hurry, but he can't resist the old man Hu Shiwu's rare! From these works, he clearly saw the birth of a mechanical design genius. If he continues to develop according to this situation, Hu Wenhai will definitely achieve extraordinary achievements on this road.

Since my grandson has a new idea, he, his grandfather, naturally needs to support him.

Hu Shiwu nodded with a smile and agreed happily: "Sure, good grandson, please let Xiaohuzi bring the things, grandpa will find argon arc welding for you. I think, the shipyard in Xiuxi City must have this equipment, and it will not cost anything if you say it."

"That's great, thank you grandpa!"

Hu Wenhai shouted excitedly, and kissed him in the face.

In 1984, Deng Gong made a southern tour and founded the Southern Weekend. The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was in full swing. China's pace of reform and opening up was taking its heavy steps with an unstoppable momentum.

However, all this is a bit distant thing for the Xiucheng in the small town of Northeast China. Especially for a semi-military factory like Xiucheng 501 Factory - formerly a military factory and later assigned to the local area, but there are still some military production tasks - life is still slow and dull.

In the old factory of Factory 501, Hu Hu, a second-level worker, is also the grandson of Hu Shiwu's cousin's family. Hu Wenhai has a distant relative of the three-court couple. Another Lu Daming is a friend of the same class as Hu Hu. Both of them are in their early twenties and have worked for three or four years, without a wife, and have no bad habits. They are the age of playing.

In a secluded vacant factory in Factory 501, Hu Hu pushed open the door and ran in with sweat.

He ran and shouted, "Brother Hai, Brother Hai, the thing is brought!"

Hu Wenhai stood in the center of the factory. A workbench that was two meters wide and five meters long was filled with parts. He was carefully assembling it.

Hu Hu was obviously five or six years older than Hu Wenhai, but he called "Brother Hai" at this time but had no psychological barrier. He placed a cylindrical thin iron bucket full of holes in his hand on the table, looking at Hu Wenhai with longing, fiddling with a bunch of dazzling and mechanical beauty parts.

Entertainment was quite scarce in the 1980s, and these young men in their twenties often had many interests and hobbies to pass the time. Hu Hu and Lu Daming were obviously already completely impressed by Hu Wenhai in terms of their hobbies.

"Brother Hai, Hu is old, will he let him come in?"

Lu Daming leaned in at the gate and asked carefully.

Hu Wenhai scratched his head, shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, I knew my grandfather would not wait until the finished product to reveal the answer. It just so happened that he would check the assembly in a while, so it would definitely be much safer. Let him come in quickly, you can see the performance of the assembly of the level 8 workers."

"Yeah!" Hu Hu and Lu Daming cheered and opened the workshop door. Hu Shiwu walked in curiously and saw Hu Wenhai watching the part he had treated with the argon arc welding.

"Good grandson, grandpa is here to help you!" Hu Shiwu looked carefully at Hu Wenhai's expression. Seeing that he was not angry, he walked over happily.

"Grandpa, I just need your help." Hu Wenhai and Hu Shiwu were a little more stable.

Although Hu Shiwu is not that old, he is really afraid that his dear grandson will be unhappy.

Seeing Hu Wenhai greeting him, Hu Shiwu's steps were lighter. He came to the workbench and glanced at the parts, and he had a rough idea of ​​what was useful in his mind.

But it is precisely because of this that when he assembled these parts in his mind, he couldn't help but take a deep breath!

"Hiss--" He looked at Hu Wenhai in shock, contacting what he said before, and the process requirements for using argon arc welding, and said: "I said goodness, you are not building a turbojet engine for fighter jets, right!"

Hu Wenhai showed a bright smile and shook his head and said, "Grandpa, how can it be that exaggerated? I just want to be a small jet engine for fighter model aircraft."
Chapter completed!