The excitement at Moscow No. 1 Machinery Factory is just a prelude to Bai Yi and Chen Yaoyang’s trip to the Soviet Union...

A few days later, in the Baltic Radio Machinery Factory in Leningrad, they found a soldering machine manufactured by Siemens of Germany in a dirt-filled warehouse. This is the core soldering equipment in the field of electronic radio, including many capacitors and resistors.

The insulating shell of the device and the connections between them require a brazing machine to be welded.

Not to mention the early 1950s, even in one or two decades, the soldering machine is still an irreplaceable and important processing and manufacturing equipment in the electronic field. Even in the 21st century, electronic manufacturing has been greatly improved.

, that is just changing the welding method to laser brazing. As for the basic principles and application scope, it is basically the same as the old brazing machine. This shows the importance of the brazing machine.

The Soviets also knew this, so when they transported this German-made brazing machine to China as a trophy, they organized relevant experts to study it, and based on the collected equipment drawings, they copied it again.

A batch of brazing machines that meet Soviet standards were purchased.

As for this brazing machine that they had dismantled into pieces, after completing its "teaching" mission, it was locked in a cold warehouse and kept there for three years. Seeing this, Bai Yi directly

Without saying a word, pack up all this pile of parts-based "junk" and take it away.

Just kidding, you can’t let such a good thing gather dust. Although the entire brazing machine is in parts condition, and even the outer shell is rusty and has some holes, the core equipment inside is still relatively intact. Bai Yi is confident that it will be

It has recovered and regained its production capacity. In this case, it is natural to pack it and ship it away, so that it can regain its vitality in China.

Similar to it, there is an ultrasonic insulating ceramic drilling machine that has just been successfully tested in Germany. It uses the oscillation of ultrasonic waves to drill insulating ceramics of electronic components. Compared with traditional mechanical drilling, it not only causes less damage to the insulating ceramics, but also

Moreover, the waveform intensity can be changed as needed to realize complex drilling of different shapes, which is very outstanding in terms of flexibility and production efficiency.

It’s just that this kind of black technology had not yet been fully deployed at that time. This ultrasonic insulating ceramic drilling machine was only a semi-finished product, and the drawings were also damaged in the war. In addition, the Soviet electronics factory was more accustomed to mechanical drilling with mature technology and easy to learn. Therefore,

This machine was thrown into the warehouse by the Soviets as scrap. Naturally, Bai Yi would not miss this opportunity. He treated it as scrap iron for steelmaking and packed it away with other electronic manufacturing equipment...

Later, at the Minsk Special Optical Manufacturing Factory, Bai Yi and others collected a large number of optical manufacturing equipment from the Austrian Swarovski Company in an abandoned factory that had been in disrepair. Among them, the high-precision lathes, milling machines and grinders were all in good condition, and the coating

Although the polishing equipment was damaged by errors, it was not completely scrapped.

But just such a complete set of equipment that can produce the world's top level optical instruments was abandoned by the Soviets. Not to mention Chen Yaoyang, even Bai Yi had a question mark on his forehead. You must know that the Soviets abandoned Germany before this.

There were a lot of system equipment, but they either felt that similar products from Germany were not as good as the Soviet Union's own and abandoned them directly; or they dismantled them from inside to outside, learned the core technology, and then threw them into the trash.

But the problem is that the Soviet Union's optical development technology is far inferior to that of European countries, and its own equipment is not very precise. You must know that all optical equipment can be processed are professional machine tools with extremely high precision, and each one is of high value.

It’s hard to imagine that the Soviets, who looked ugly when eating, would throw away the meat in their mouths.

So Bai Yi curiously asked the reason, but the answer made Bai Yi and Chen Yaoyang laugh and cry. The reason was simply because the Austrian Swarovski company was a world-renowned luxury goods manufacturer, but it was deemed imperialist and decadent by the top Soviet officials.

The symbol of the world, and even the captured optical equipment, were labeled as bourgeois degeneration and discarded as objects of criticism.

Bai Yi and Chen Yaoyang were simply stunned. They didn't expect that ideology could make a whole set of optical manufacturing equipment be treated as scrap metal. Yes, Swarovski is indeed a world-renowned luxury goods manufacturer. The luxury crystals it produces are favored by countless stars.

It is indeed not unfair to say that he is a representative of the decadent bourgeoisie because of his popularity among the rich.

But the problem is that Swarovski is not only a manufacturer of luxury crystals, but also a powerful manufacturer of military optical instruments. The lenses, optical sighting instruments, and imaging equipment it produces are world-renowned high-quality products until the 21st century.

Among other things, the optical sighting lenses, thermal imaging optical lenses on the American M1A2 main battle tank, and the comprehensive standard lens on the famous large-caliber sniper rifle "Bartley" are all produced by Swarovski, which shows its craftsmanship in the field of military optics.

How deep. But I didn’t expect that such a military optics manufacturer with profound heritage would become a third-rate player in the Soviet Union because of its luxury jewelry.

Fortunately, the Soviets were not completely blinded by ideology. The Soviets looked down upon Swarovski. However, Carl Zeiss, another optical manufacturer in Nazi Germany, made the Soviets abandon all prejudices and captured various optical manufacturing

The equipment not only became the model for the next generation of optical manufacturing machinery in the Soviet Union, but also directly became the capital for the upgrading of the Minsk Special Optics Factory.

It is precisely because of this that when entering the Minsk Special Optics Factory, one is greeted by a strong German flavor. This makes Bai Yi and Chen Yaoyang secretly sigh that it is a pity that the Soviet Union did not take the ideological criticism one step further.

?In this way, wouldn’t Carl Zeiss become the foundation of China’s optical manufacturing?

You must know that Carl Zeiss is the leader in the field of optics in the world. The classic Zeiss telescope has been a classic among classics until the 21st century, and there are countless imitations of it. Among them, China's Type 63 telescope is a reference to the German Zeiss telescope, and

The optical sight on the German battleship "Bismarck", the periscope on the "Tiger" tank, and even the glasses used by the head of state are all masterpieces of Carl Zeiss.

Therefore, Bai Yi felt a little disappointed when he missed the lineage of this optical giant, but it was not bad. The complete Swarovski optical production equipment is enough to lay a good optical industry foundation for China today.

And this trip to the Soviet Union, it is not only the optical industry that can lay the foundation for New China. The radio industry, heavy equipment processing, precision processing and manufacturing, mining, etc., many defeated products were discarded by the Soviets for various reasons.

Domestic equipment was gathered as much as possible by Boyi and became a good foundation for various industrial fields in New China.

Coupled with the large number of various drawings and technical samples collected from archives and research institutes in Moscow, Leningrad and other places that were regarded as heresy or unobjectionable technical garbage by the Soviets, Bai Yi originally arrived empty-handed.
Chapter completed!