Brad,
You are right, but that is not China's fault!
b
Robert D. Gardner
Gardner Productions LLC
Film and Video Production since 1978
619-460-1000
www.gardnerproductions.com <http://www.gardnerproductions.com/>
_____
From: Brad Fornal [mailto:tequila.brad@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:26 PM
To: Steven Guterman
Cc: Bob Gardner; spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?
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
> **************************************
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/vnd]
> _______________________________________________
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Suggested annual donation $12.75
> Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
> Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
> Unsubscribe/Manage <http://www.team.net/forums%0AUnsubscribe/Manage>:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/an5.sprite@gmail.com
Suggested annual donation $12.75
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
<http://www.team.net/forums%0AUnsubscribe/Manage>
Unsubscribe/Manage:
http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/tequila.brad@gmail.com
--
DON JULIO 1942
www.myspace.com/tequilabrad
[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of
image001.gif]
_______________________________________________
Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Suggested annual donation $12.75
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
|