On Saturday 02 January 2010, Rainer Schmidt wrote: >And regardless of your arguments, the one factor which distorts >everything the most is the government involvement. >The Chinese Gov is subsidizing the manufacturing industry so heavily >that indeed it is cheaper to buy a bottle of water filled in China and >then shipped around the world, than opening your tap. We have to let >that happen as our government has sold us out to China so they could >promise and deliver us a lifestyle in luxury... that was till the >Chinese credit card debt became to big. Till the national debt is back >in our control, all discussions about manufacturing technology and >quality are completely and utterly secondary as the politics dictate >the flow of things and not the economics of reasoning, quality, and >how things should be done correctly in the first place. Every time I >go to Home depot and have to buy one of their absolutely sub par >fasteners I feel anger. Anger about the fact that I WILL have to >replace that piece of junk, that I am lucky when I do not turn the >head of that screw while tightening it. And so on and so on. The >amount of lifetime wasted because of inferior products over the past 5 >years is making me even angrier. > >So... please... it really does NOT matter how think your wall is in a >fitting, what happens with the shavings, which alloy it is. The reason >for all of this is on a different level. Controlled by people who like >it just the way it is as we have to buy and buy and buy and buy again. > >Last week I went to Sears and bought a 1.4 inch tap and a cool ratchet >wrench to tap a hole in a difficult to access location. I am not new >to tapping holes.... I tapped three, then the wrench broke, and then >after one more hole the tap... Wrench made in Taiwan 'according to the >specs' of some importer. And the tap was made in China. Taiwan stuff >is usually alright once one pays for good stuff. But NOTHING, not a >SINGLE EFFING ITEM I bought with the label 'made in China' has held up >even remotely to it's promise. Regardless if it's a friggin drill bit, >or a cast piece of steel. ALL total garbage. The damage across the US >caused by those inferior products, compounded by the amount of labor >to fix those problems MUST outweigh the 'savings'. > >We have a local hardware store which has stock from the 40-60's as the >previous generations must have had some luck buying up stock in the >right moment. The quality of those parts is shocking compared to >current stuff. Pipe fittings held 100 years, and now we have to >exchange everything every 2-5 years because of 'shareholder value'... > >Haha,... we must be completely retarded as we are complaining and >complaining and complaining. I personally think that it's actually >time to stop buying that crap. It is time NOT to shop at Home Depot, >or Lowes, or similar Asian hardware markets. I am having WAY LESS >HASSLE since I buy US and European stuff at McMasters. Twice as >expensive, but hey, it holds up till I DO something stupid with it. > >HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! > >Rainer > You are top posting. Regardless: +1000
>On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Andy Pugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/1/2 Dave <[email protected]>: >>> I'd prefer to use >>> all plastic but there are some places were plastic just doesn't work >>> well. >> >> Stainless? >> >> -- >> atp >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>----- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community >> Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A >> streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and >> easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) ISO applications: A solution in search of a problem! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
