Chapter 63 Equipment in Place
Just as Xu Qiang was preparing to buy a generator for the nearby village, Wang Yongsheng also began to prepare to take the finished reactor and distiller out of the factory.

In fact, stealing things from factories seems to be a common problem in all state-owned enterprises these days, the only difference is whether the problem is serious or not.

The slogan at that time was to treat the factory as home, and in the workers' understanding, whatever the home lacked, they could get from the factory.

But there is a prerequisite here, that is, you must never take important and valuable things from the factory, otherwise you will be fired or even sentenced.

If it is just some waste materials or small odds and ends, the factory leaders will turn a blind eye to it. After all, many leaders will also arrange workers to help them make small furniture such as "Forty-eight Legs". The management is relatively loose and everyone is better off.

However, Shengli Machinery Factory is a military-industrial enterprise after all, and its management is much stricter than that of ordinary enterprises. But even so, some workers can still find loopholes.

Wang Yongsheng's father, Wang Guanghan, was the team leader of the carpentry workshop. He usually had a lot of private work, basically making furniture for the leaders and acquaintances in the workshop, so he had very good connections. Because of this, his son Wang Yongsheng often fought and caused trouble in the factory, but he never received major punishment. As for being "demoted" to the chemical workshop, he was even more free and easy.

A few days ago, when Wang Guanghan learned that his son was going to make some tin cans for an important friend, he took the sketch drawn by Xu Qiang and found some old friends in the machine repair class. They went to a restaurant for a good meal and wine in the evening, and the drawings were taken away by these people.

A workshop produces a lot of waste every day. The leftover iron scraps from cutting fill up most of the scrap warehouse. The welders in the machine repair class can just walk around the warehouse and unload the materials.

It only took one night shift for several welders to use cutting tools and electric welding, and after some hammering and banging, they finally made the reactor and distiller tanks.

Since it is welded together with scrap iron sheets, some parts of the tank are bumpy and rusty, and there are still some welding slags that have not been knocked off, so it is not beautiful at all.

Logically speaking, this jar should be polished with a grinder and painted to beautify it, but Wang Guanghan did not let them do so, because he took into account that his son still had to transport the two jars out of the factory, so he asked someone to fill the jars with water, and when there was no leakage, he considered the job done.

As for how to transport the two cans and related accessories, Wang Yongsheng found another classmate from his former technical school, Zhao Xiaodong, who now works as a driver in a car team.

Zhao Xiaodong had always been "protected" by Wang Yongsheng when he was in school, so naturally they had a very good relationship. He didn't even ask for the big front door that Wang Yongsheng sent him, but just did him a favor.

On weekdays, Zhao Xiaodong had to go to the steel casting workshop to collect waste slag, and then transport it to the waste slag dump several kilometers away from the factory. The two cans that he had made for Xu Qiang before became containers for the waste slag and were successfully taken out of the factory.

At two o'clock in the morning on Monday, when Zhao Xiaodong's car drove to the scrap yard and flashed the headlights a few times in the direction of the hillside, Liu Jun, Erhu and Da Hei Niu, who had been waiting there, quickly came up with a horse-drawn carriage.

When Zhao Xiaodong saw the tin can as tall as a man being picked up by Big Black Bull from the still steaming slag, the cigarette in his mouth almost fell to the ground...

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"Hahaha! Good job!"

When he arrived at the peat field in the morning and saw Big Black Ox fiddling with the two iron cans in the house, Xu Qiang immediately smiled happily.

"Uncle, what are you doing with these two jars? Are they used as water tanks?"

Looking at the two iron cans with pits and rust on their surfaces, Liu Jun asked in confusion. "You'll know later." Xu Qiang deliberately kept it a secret and then asked, "Did you encounter any trouble when you went to get the cans?"

"No, it's a waste dump. Children in our village used to take a magnet and pick up scrap metal there. No one goes there at night," said Liu Jun.

"That's good." Xu Qiang nodded when he heard it.

What Xu Qiang was most worried about was that Wang Yongsheng would be caught by the factory for helping him transport the two iron cans. This was no joke. At the very least, he might be fined by the factory. At worst, he might be fired or even handed over to the public security department. This in itself was a crime of theft!
But now it seems that Wang Yongsheng is really capable and can transport things out of the military factory. This is something that not everyone can do.

But to be honest, these two iron buckets are made of scrap iron and are not worth much money. If they were important things from before, he probably wouldn't dare to take them out.

"You two put the jar here..." Xu Qiang pointed to the empty space in the corner of the room and continued, "Add water and hydrochloric acid to the jar and clean the rust inside."

There cannot be any impurities in the reactor and the distillation tank, so the first step Xu Qiang took when he got the tank was to use acid washing to remove the rust inside.

In fact, these two jars only have the body and the lid. Xu Qiang needs to buy the other parts himself and then connect them. For example, the switch of the water pipe under the reactor needs to install a faucet, and above the distiller, an iron chimney needs to be purchased as a connecting steam pipe.

In addition, he will need a large glass jar to collect the distilled product, but these can be easily purchased.

It took Xu Qiang and his two companions more than an hour to clean the jars and place them in appropriate places.

Just as Xu Qiang was sitting at the door to rest, he saw Erhu walking towards him quickly from afar.

"Uncle, come here..."

"How's the matter going?" Xu Qiang asked with concern.

"I called the electrician from our village over today. He checked the generator in Qinghe Village and said that there was no problem with the motor and the diesel engine didn't seem to have any major damage. If we can find someone who knows how to repair machines, it can still be repaired..." Erhu said to Xu Qiang.

"That's fine!" Xu Qiang said straightforwardly.

For Xu Qiang, buying a second-hand asynchronous motor for 700 yuan is already a good deal. A new motor of the same power would cost at least to yuan, and it is not available for individuals to buy. So after hearing the news, Xu Qiang decided to take action.

"Then you and I will go there tomorrow morning, and we will bring the machine back directly."

"Tomorrow morning, the three of us will go there. I think the thing is too big for two people to move." Xu Qiang thought for a moment and then said, "Also, let's go to the county town tomorrow to buy some spare parts and try to build our daily chemical product production room before this Wednesday!"

(End of this chapter)