Re: Chinese rotors are junk

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Oberlander wrote:

> They ask for a rotor to be made to this spec.  The Chinese firm outsources
> steel as cheaply as low quality as possible becuase there's squat the firm
> can do about it other than go elsewhere, which costs them double.

It's not so much that the part costs double, it's the lead time to get
another vendor's tooling completed. Many of the vendors in china that
I had to work with were notorious for saying 'we can do it' to anything 
to get the business. It's only once beyond the point of no return that it 
is discovered they can't. But now it's too late to go with someone else, 
so they have to be tought, quality squeezed out at great effort, etc to 
make the project's dates.

There was one supplier who did the 'we can do it' rutine when they 
couldn't so much that I wanted to make up a part that was physically
impossible to make, just to see what they'd say.