In a message dated 12/14/2006 3:13:25 AM Mountain Standard Time,
grunthaner@gmail.com writes:
he heard the reason the Mexican Strats are hundreds
cheaper is because they use little or no environmental safety concerns. The
US built Strats have very strict environmental safety concerns such as types
of paints used etc. Anyone on the list know anything about that?
Lin
Certainlyl possible. A few years ago I visited a customer's "plant" in
Chihuahua. They made little metal watering cans, mail boxes and such for the
florist industry. Decorative items. They were made of thin sheet steel and
then copper plated. The copper plating was done in large concrete vats. The
workers were walking around the edge of the vats wearing paper cone air
filters
on thier faces.
The items were then painted green to simulate patina. The paint shop was at
one end of the factory, and the day I was there you could just make out the
workers through the cloud of paint. The other end of the huge room was a row
of spot welders where they were putting the items together. I took one look
at the set up, paint fumes on one end and welding on the other and decided
it was time to leave.
Mexico is changing however. Just 5-6 years ago they ran a denim mill
operator out of Chihauhua after he turned the river running through town a nice
dark denim blue.
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
73 MG Midget
74.5 MGBGT
63 TR4
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she
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