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Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?

To: Steven Guterman <an5.sprite@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?
From: Brad Fornal <tequila.brad@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:25:54 -0600
Not gonna happen, the UAW will not allow it.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Steven Guterman <an5.sprite@gmail.com>wrote:

> Bob,
>
>  Watch out American car manufacturers  unless they learn how to make a
> quality product at a
> competitive price.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Bob Gardner <rdgard@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > "So what does that say about the crap from china?
> > USA beats the hell out of ANYTHING from china."
> >
> > I only sort of agree with you.  HF carries mostly very cheap stuff,
> mostly
> > from China.  Most of it works great, one or two times and if you want
> > something that will service you well for a life time, spend the right
> > amount
> > and buy quality stuff.  OTOH, some of my tools I only use once or twice a
> > year.
> >
> > IMHO, the reason the China stuff is crap is not that China can't make
> > quality stuff, it is because the American companies that go to China with
> > the specifications that they want in a tool to buy insist on making them
> to
> > a "very low Price Point" so they can sell them here and make a profit.
> >  Here
> > or there, pot metal is less expensive than carbon steel.
> >
> > I only have been to Hong Kong, but there, everything worked great, the
> > quality of the goods I shopped for was great and not what I would call
> > cheap.  Given, I didn't shop any tools but the "quality of life" I saw in
> > the hotels, the public transport, the clean city streets, everything I
> came
> > in contact with was better than the same thing in New York, for example.
> >
> > Check out the slide show someone sent me to see that the Chinese can
> indeed
> > do "state of the art" work.  The bridges are beautiful.  (OOPS, I don't
> > know
> > if I can send an attachment.  Maybe someone else knows how to find a link
> > to
> > this.)
> >
> > Just my two yen worth!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > bob
> >
> > Robert D. Gardner
> >
> > Gardner Productions LLC
> > Film and Video Production since 1978
> > 619-460-1000
> > www.gardnerproductions.com
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