According to Chen Ming’s understanding, many spaceships carry a few maintenance masters on board when traveling.
They are responsible for the routine maintenance and emergency repairs of the spaceship, as well as weapon maintenance.
Once a ship has its own maintenance master, it’s better to repair it themselves if they can, and if they can’t, they should replace it with new equipment rather than buying second-hand stuff.
Moreover, in the dangerous space environment, how could weapons, key components, be bought second-hand? If something went wrong at a crucial moment, you wouldn’t even know how you died.
Chen Ming remembered that the discarded weapons from the Mining Space Station were mostly reclaimed and smelted directly, with rare instances of refurbishment and resale.
After all, the resource and manpower consumption during refurbishment for resale, compared to the price of refurbished sale, really isn’t better than just recycling the materials.
Chen Ming didn’t face this issue, as he could repair with just spiritual power and a minimal amount of materials, suffering no losses, and even if sold at a discount, he would still earn a profit.
Also, some people do love bargains and would buy second-hand or even scrapped weapons,
But generally, they take them back for their maintenance master to check and repair, ensuring they’re usable as backup weapons.
So even if weapons were repaired, there’s no guarantee how much they would actually sell for in the end.
Even if everything was sorted out, and the routes for acquiring discarded weapons and selling refurbished ones were established.
There’s still a problem facing Chen Ming.
Chen Ming is just one person, no matter how well he repairs or how fast he maintains, he definitely can’t match the performance of the Space Station’s maintenance factory with its mature operational system.
Even if Chen Ming could overcome so many issues and make the weapon refurbishment and maintenance business the best it can be.
The next inevitable step would be a conflict of interest between him and the Space Station’s maintenance factory.
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Since difficulties are everywhere, Chen Ming thought it’s better to simply join them, climbing onto others’ shoulders and enjoying their cake with his own abilities.
Moreover, if he could really join the maintenance factory, many of the problems facing this idea could be easily solved.
If Chen Ming were part of the maintenance factory, discarded weapon acquisition and refurbished weapon sales could rely on the factory’s channels.
Isn’t it much more efficient than asking dock by dock?
This is also why Chen Ming says he’s only delaying and not abandoning this idea.
He feels his skills paired with this concept are actually quite promising.
The factory generally only sells new weapons, second-hand refurbished ones only sell at very low prices even when they do sell.
However, if Chen Ming is the one refurbishing the weapons, that’s a different story.
Weapons that Chen Ming repairs through his panel look brand new as if they are fresh off the line, indistinguishable from original products.
This top-notch repair technology can indeed make some second-hand weapons sell as if they were new.
Originally, the weapons acquired by the maintenance factory could only be refurbished for low-price sales or even just taken for material recycling.
But with Chen Ming’s touch, prices would soar again.
If this can really proceed, there’s definitely profit to be made.
As long as the maintenance factory can recognize his skills, give him opportunities, and let him truly start this business, it would be a win-win for both Chen Ming and the factory.
As long as there’s a brain in the management team of the maintenance factory, they wouldn’t refuse someone like Chen Ming or this lucrative path.
However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry for the time being.
Because the premise of everything he envisioned is that he can join the maintenance factory.
Since old Wu mentioned that his boss appears only once every few days and has skipped work to go drinking, it’s clear that he won’t be caught today, so there’s no rush to hang around the factory.
He might as well go to the No. 13 Space Arm first, to see if old Wu was deceiving him, to see if there’s an opportunity to sell off that previous batch of goods.
To earn his first real profit.