I'm sorry but it is a load of rubbish to say that China makes cheap junk.
China has some of the best manufacturing plants in the world. China can make some of the highest quality goods in the world.
I personally have custom ordered parts from China and was very happy with the results.
The point you are missing is that China will make whatever you want them to make.
You could go to a Chinese manufacturer and say "I want 10,000 of these made as quickly and cheaply as possible" and as promised, the very next week you could have 10,000 of whatever you ordered made out of the cheapest nastiest materials with no quality control checks.
You could also go to a Chinese manufacturer and say "I want 10 of these, they have to be perfect, use the absolute best materials available" and sure enough they will deliver something that would put German manufacturing to shame.
The finished product quality is down to the specification of the designer, not because Chinese can't make good products.
the chinese are very clever people.. they can and do make extremely good products.. but they also make junk products just like japan did forty years ago..
and they are quite capable of ruining an otherwise good product by fitting a simple on/off switch that breaks as soon as its used.. i have bought enough chinese machinery to know this.. i dont mind cos at the price its worth replacing the odd faulty switch or cream cheese nut and bolt..
their quality control seems to foul up near the end.. they seem to get the important bits right but mess up with simple things like on/off switches.. i find this odd to be honest..
but a lot of expensive brand name stuff that people wouldnt associate with china is in fact made there.. but it does require a visit to china to make sure the job is done correctly..
years ago i used to read a lot science fiction stories.. a short story written sixty years ago went like this..
all over america small shops appeared.. they had the name gizmo incorporated up on the shop front..
people took something they owned into these shops payed five dollars left it there overnight and the next morning received the original article plus an exact copy of the original article..
these shops became very popular and people wondered about them.. as the story went it turned out these shops were set up by an alien race using their superior technology to manage this clever trick.. an exact copy of anything for just five dollars..
it also turned out the alien plan was to wage war on america by wrecking its economy..
this story was written sixty years ago.. since the story was written i think the aliens have taken over the entirety of china and turned it into one huge "gizmo incorporated shop".. he he
china is one huge gizmo machine and for five dollars they can copy anything.. that story was very prophetic.. it will wreck the american economy just like the aliens in the sixty year old story tried to do.. america stopped the aliens.. they wont stop the chinese..
i often quote that old story when china comes up in conversation..
trog
I'll have some of what you're on.
