Posted on 05/16/2016 10:16:46 AM PDT by C19fan
Here we have a side-by-side comparison of the humblest of fruits from two industrial powerhouses: simple bearings made in China and Germany. Both are advertised, per the description, as "weapons-grade," though apparently the German version costs a good 30 times as much.
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You mean the exploding rear axles that BMW has never acknowledged? How about the new R1200 oilhead engines with cases so thin that engines are totalled in crashes that the older R100/1150 series easily survived? You mean that research?
Yes, there are different tolerance grades as well as different clearances based on application.
I cant find any mention of BMW engines being made in China. Can you cite your source or did you just make that up? Thanks
The case thickness, unless out of spec which I doubt, is not a manufacturing location issue. Take it up with the German design engineers.
From my experience, that’s completely true of so much stuff made in the PRC. It seems everything they produce, from poisonous dog food to absolute garbage lamp parts, is a deliberate consumer ripoff unless it’s made on contract for a large, powerful foreign company that has the contacts and power rigorously to subervise its PRC contractor(s). Compared to Mexico, where the language isn’t that hard to learn, the country is close, and there’s some cultural commonality, that’s ahard barrier to surmount.
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Possibly isolated cases?
Hogan’s Heroes. Those guys were always taking out ball bearing plants.
Fletch?
And in-line speedskaters....
I’m wearing a set of false buck teeth right now!
The whole free trade thing has been fiasco for almost everyone except for the very few.
Replaced some cable pulleys on my garage door. Originals 20+yrs. old.
Ordered them online. Received 8 pulleys. They have bearings in them.
Half were from Indonesia, half from China.
The Indonesian bearing were acceptable, The Chinese pulleys felt like they had sand in the bearings, awful.
Ended up using the Indonesian and some of the original pulleys.
The 25 y.o. originals were better than the new Chinese ones.
If the Chinese can adulterate a product to make more money, they will. I don’t trust anything they make. Sadly have to buy some of their junk as they are our manufacturing supplier but when i can avoid them , I do.
Esp. foodstuffs.
LOL
Don’t forget the 3-In-1 oil.
I can't THINK of two culture more different than China and Germany. Of course China HAS contributed to the world: bubonic plague, bird flus/Asian flu, to name a couple.
The Chinese have the biggest problem with cleanliness of their restaurants, hotels, homes, kitchens, etc. [NOT personal cleanliness]. This is so because cleanliness CO$T$ and one gets NOTHING for it.
Chinese restaurants get closed down the MOST in the West because of this. Their logic: why clean tonight when the restaurant will get JUST as dirty tomorrow?
AMEN.
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