Mamykin and infinity

The discussion of the design engineer about the friction and wear of human thought

Russian technical thought seems to be different from any other in that it needs a technique only as a reason to think about the imperfection of the world and propose a way to completely change it. We, say, see this by the example of a person named Sergey Mamykin. Sergey Mamykin was born in the Lukhovitsy, wanted to fly on a fighter, and learned to the designer of electric locomotives. On the railway, he learned that there was friction in the world. And not just surfaces, but in essence with everything. And it is precisely this essence that leads humanity to catastrophic wear. Honestly, having experienced on his own railway path and friction of personalities, and wear of the nerves, Sergey Mamykin finally developed mystical lubricants with copper ions that prolong the life of the world, allowing all its parts to interact, but not harm each other. Here is what Sergei Mamykin himself tells about the salvation of civilization by the forces of technical thought.

“I was born in the Lukhovitsy; You probably know the Lukhovitsa: in Russia, only three capitals - Moscow, Ryazan and Lukhovitsa. So it is believed that in the Lukhovitsa from the interesting - only cucumbers. Not really. There is the Lukhovitsky Machine -Building Plant, which collects a moment of a moment. I saw them, probably at five years old-my father somehow managed to spend me for production. He himself was there after the war. He went through the war in aviation - he was a technician, but at the same time had a rather large raid. In the bombers sat radio arrows, the place of which was behind, and they very often died. There were not enough crews, so the father flew a shooter, even had combat awards. Lucky, survived. And after the war, he came to the plant, worked there as a master of the STO mainly the workshop.

I liked the planes so much that I also caught fire, wanted to become a military pilot, fly on fighters. Moreover, I did not have any health restrictions, I gradually graduated from the school with a silver medal, I had my ability to study. Still, my mother is a teacher of chemistry and biology, Honored Teacher of the RSFSR. I studied chemistry right from the first grade. There were no extensions then, my mother took me after the fourth lesson, put me at her last desk to her class, and I listened. It turned out that all this is quite easy - well, what is incomprehensible there? In the end, chemistry is just what our whole life consists of. She creates her, she also destroys her. Everything else is the chance that consists of fate.

One such accident occurred at me at the military registration and enlistment office. I asked for a flight school, and at the age of 17 they sent me to the helicopter. For the first time, then I was offended by my homeland, wrote a report of dismissal and went to enter the institute. For some reason, I decided that I would not have enough for Moscow aviation knowledge. And my older sister just graduated from MIIT by that time. And I thought: the railway is also cool. I picked up the most interesting specialty - the designer of electric locomotives. Then there was a Soviet Union, several more plants worked, which built electric locomotives and diesel locomotives, so they were preparing specialists. A lot of them were not required, there was only one group in the country, and I got into it. Twenty people received us, and in the end only ten designers were released. And here recently I needed to call in MITs at the Native Faculty of Electrification, and there I found in horror that my specialty no longer exists. Designers are no longer needed.

Why? Well, here I am a young designer, after the institute at the Rybnoy depot in the Ryazan region. First, he traveled on an assistant to the driver on the train - as it was supposed to become a master of the repair workshop. In order, as they say, look at life, to know it better. I traveled, found out. What can I say? Even then, it was noticeable, and now it is already everywhere: we have always been good about engineering, but for some reason only if it is not ours, but foreign. I don’t know what the reason is, but, for example, all the most modern passenger and freight domestic electric locomotives that are still used by us, all the main ideas and solutions in them are borrowed from the French. The parties of this and this were bought, copied and applied.

In general, I must say that the thought, and especially the technological thought, we have more than one hundred years already in the pen. We are even used to counting ourselves: a-ah, Russia, this is such a backward country. And the funny thing is that this statement seems to be very profitable. Let’s take the Sapsan. Before he appeared here, we made our own normal Sokol train, which is no worse than Sapsan from Siemens. But it was more profitable to buy a train on the side, and with a large amount of the contract. Probably, the logic of money is stronger, but, it seems to me, the neglect of thought ultimately creates a sad picture: real idiots begin to occupy the place of real specialists.

From idiots in Russia, what is the salvation? Only blat.

And I, honestly, in the end used it too. He got a job at the Lukhovitsky Machine -Building Plant, where my father drove me back in childhood. He worked there until the nineties, while the planes were still needed. He became an aviation technician of the highest category, an engineer-aschers of aviation devices and systems of the highest category. That is, I, in fact, realized my dream - became a pilot, but ground. At the same time I saw what the highest quality is. Ideal bolts, wrappers and rivets. But this was interesting: for some reason, we are doing perfectly only for war. And for people - how to get it.

For example, I had to work in the production of our reusable spacecraft Buran, which was then attracted to aviation specialists from all plants in the country. There were sometimes interruptions in the supply of parts, and the enterprise, in order not to idle, was engaged in consumer goods. And it was incredible. Of the white robes, you fell into some hellish dungeon, in which there was equipment taken out of Germany after the war. And there, the grandmothers riveted something on him and then collected door and hinged locks. Some kind of wildness. I had to take a hammer, score the details, sharpen them with a file so that the lock was closed and opened. Although it would be possible to make normal locks at the factory, which would have worked for a hundred years later. Why not? I could not understand then.

In the nineties, it became possible to change all this. Cooperatives, private enterprises began to appear and I took up business, returned to the railway, and began to do a wonderful job. We dragged excellent technology from agriculture. At one time, in the Rostov region there was a Krasny Aksai plant, which made plows, cultivators and other grounding equipment. All the details there were hardened by the so -called induction surf with Sormait, this increased their service life. We tried to apply this technology in a car sheet of wagons. There is usually dry friction, everything wear out quickly. And with the surfacing of a thin layer of Sormait, the so -called silver cast iron, the service life of auto -chairs increased by 300 times! We literally quickly outlived the marriages of special accounting-this is when, due to the wear of the castles, especially in the passenger movement, there were self-studies of wagons, a very unpleasant thing. Previously, the coupons needed to be repaired every hundred thousand kilometers. And we gave a guarantee - a million kilometers of mileage. Million! It would seem: Oh! It would be necessary to apply such a technology everywhere, but we were ultimately survived: how it is, some kind of company that does not enter the system earns money and prevents us from normally and regularly repair the rolling stock.

But against the background of these adventures, another accident occurred. I was the general director and bought myself the Oka car. I drove 80 thousand kilometers on it. It was 1993, that is, everything happened exactly 29 years ago. My car began to crumble, and I decided to sort it out. They took out the engine, did something elementary-the pistons changed, the rings. And suddenly our technologist comes the wonderful Viktor Balabanov, he worked in combination with us, and brings me a small bubble. Literally like with green. Even the color is the same. And consistency. One to one. On, he says, pour into oil. I ask: what will happen? He says: no worse, Lei. And he is a candidate of sciences, and I am a simple design engineer. Well, what to do, believed, poured.

In the morning I did not recognize the car. I’m going and I don’t understand what is happening at all. As if there is another engine. There are no noise, shaking, wheezing and squabbles at all. The craving even appeared. I came to work and say: Vit, go here, tell me what kind of potion is this? And he told me about Dmitry Nikolayevich Gorkunov. It was like a revelation. I still think that Dmitry Nikolaevich among living people is the greatest person in Moscow now. He is 102 years old, and he is still alive. His two discoveries, made back in the Soviet Union, must definitely change the whole world; At least I hope so. One of these discoveries is the hydrogen wear of metals, and the second is the electoral transfer during friction, or, in other words, the effect of carelessness.

Dmitry Nikolaevich worked at the time at the Air Force Research Institute in Lyubertsy and was investigating aviation disasters. He was a doctor of sciences, a specialist in friction and wear in machines. With his comrades, he discovered that steel surfaces in the friction zone are destroyed not at all by the force of friction, but by hydrogen. It is released from hydrocarbon lubrication and destroys the crystalline lattice of the metal.

I was amazed. Imagine how many technology humanity owns and how many problems it has precisely due to friction.

In fact, the world spends a significant part of the earned precisely on overcoming or somehow compensate for the consequences of the interaction of surfaces. Because in our world everything wears out.

For the idea to slow down this wear, I caught up. I met Gorkunov, found out that Oleat copper was in the mysterious green bubble - this is such an oil with copper salts. He began to study the question to understand how it works. For many years he spent his own money on finding out how, for example, rails wear out on the railway and how to prevent this from this. We collected scales that exfoliate from the rails, studied them, invented lubricants that suppressed wear and increased the service life of the rails five times! In diesel locomotives that worked in oil with our additives, the wear of the main parts of the motor installations decreased by 20%!

That is, it became clear that, in principle, an alternative to a classic approach to the development and production of lubricants can be created.

In fact, I seriously thought about how to break the whole system that lives due to the fact that, roughly speaking, it burns oil, and the more toxic smoke emanates from it, the more money will turn out.

Look. Say, I am a designer, I created a bearing, that is, I gave rise to new problems, new surfaces that have to interact, conflict, wear out each other. To solve these problems in the modern world, there is a chemotology - an applied science that shares these surfaces, that is, we will speak so, minimizes their conflict. Here is chemotology and teaches us how to make a lubricant.

But life is actually arranged: it is not always mobile. After all, we must also start, and brake. And at this moment there is no protection, no oil wedge. This is where the magic of destruction is hidden. And a person is changing in his entire life dozens of times due to the fact that it starts and slows down, and the mechanisms-even more so. What to do? Let us return to chemistry for a while. What does she teach us? If we have pure iron, then we have a whole section, which is called "redox reactions." He says: if in ionic form there is metal, which in the table of periodic elements stands to the right of iron, then iron should be restored. This, for example, is ions of noble metals - copper, silver, gold and platinum. It is clear that silver, gold and platinum are expensive. But there is copper.

How the copper ions act. Where hydrogen tore off a piece of metal, copper immediately makes a patch and forms a soft film. There was no roughness. The surface is now smooth, magnificent heat sink, unnecessary energy costs leave, friction practically disappears, the wear process is strongly inhibited.

As a result, we developed, for example, motor oil, which provides 15% fuel savings and almost half reduces Co and CH in the exhaust. In addition, there is no phosphorus, sulfur, zinc and alkalis in it.

We somehow tried to deal with large structures such as shipping. But there, as they say, large clearings, great interests, do not break through. And then suddenly we found one private trader. He has a small Soviet still dry -loaded barge with Chinese diesel engines. He himself is both the captain and the owner. He walks with cargoes from Krasnoyarsk along the Yenisei and in Nizhny Tunguska in a tour. And so he refuel with our oil - bang, the temperature of the oil fell, the diesel engine became easier. And then - bang, fuel saving. On a small ship of 200 tons, he began to save a ton of diesel fuel per day! There is 15 days back and forth. Fifteen tons of savings. So, for this winter, three more scrap ships were restored with the money saved.

Do you like this to the modern world with its good old friction? I think not very. This prevents the industry and business to make spare parts, purchase fuel, plan budgets for repairing equipment. In fact, this prevents the earn a lot of money. So we are well accepted where they are still fighting for opportunities and for the result. We, say, are friends with three sports federations: rifle, water sports and motorsport. For the fourth year, we are official suppliers of lubricants of the Federation of Bicycle Port of Russia. In the Russian team in cycling, in general, all bicycles work on our lubricants, because it is a doping for equipment, and it is not prohibited.

But by and large, of course, not all these little things and not even in oil and not in friction problems. Apparently, the fact is that I generally have a peculiar attitude to life. I do not think that she originated by accident. Each of us was created for a specific purpose. The person who was born, he has his own task. Moreover, for one such task in the world, several people can be born at once. Let's say to invent the radio. Or, let's say, a light bulb. That is, we appear here for the sake of improving, in order to create something. Or help the one who creates something.

And if a person really turns out to be in his place, the so -called fate itself arranges everything as he needs.

What do I need? Why does some Mamykin live in this world? I, the infection, must technically comprehend the phenomena of nature. To properly use the resources of the Earth. To compensate for the harm that she was done and inflicted. So that a person can cooperate with nature, and not conquer it. So that not only people, but also the mechanisms that they create could live longer. This is possible only if you put live technical thought in them, and not artificial intelligence. Living thought - and there is a lubricant that compensates for wear from the friction of the conflicting surfaces of civilization. ”