Re: Chinese rotors are junk

Brent P wrote:

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

This of course, is compounded by their lack of respect for patents and
copyrights, which means they feel that it's perfectly well and good to
try to copy things without understanding or contacting the original firm
first.

Yes, paying royalties/fees/etc sucks, but it does get you reams of data
if you want on what you've just bought into.  That whole capacitor fiasco
due to some chemist in China trying to reverse engineer the fluid and
having as many as 50% of them explode under normal use is a prime example.