Posted on 05/16/2016 10:16:46 AM PDT by C19fan
Here we have a side-by-side comparison of the humblest of fruits from two industrial powerhouses: simple bearings made in China and Germany. Both are advertised, per the description, as "weapons-grade," though apparently the German version costs a good 30 times as much.
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Saw an article in an American Society for Quality journal that places the level of quality in Chinese manufacturing as about where the US was in the 1980’s.
I cant find any mention of BMW engines being made in China. Can you cite your source or did you just make that up? Thanks
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Prior poster noted the GS650 which I believe has a Rotax powerplant made in China.
“My second thought: Chinese industry is very good at producing items of marginal quality, like the Japanese industry of the 1950s. Whether China will wake up the way the Japanese did in the 60s and become rivals for quality is anyone’s guess”
China is in serious need of a William Deming type to come along and get them straightened out.
I’d like to know the viscosity of the oil on each bearing before I draw any conclusions. I don’t know what controls are in place to ensure a fair test.
Several years ago the Chinese created a knock off of a BMW. It was an SUV-type vehicle.
It even had the blue/black/white logo, but with the colors reversed so as to avoid copyright violations.
Anyway, it was said it failed every single safety test available and the steering column would go right through the driver in any accident over 15 mph.
But hey, the price was right!
Thanks much for turning me on to Schweinfurt. I Googled it and got a great history lesson.
The Germans were an amazing people. Seems like the first thing they did after getting bombed was to clean up and make the area orderly, as some kind of cultural imperative.
I also sense a cultural lack of morality in them.
Money is all. Nothing else matters.
Communism did that.
They do M16s and M4s too. Norinco?
http://world.guns.ru/assault/ch/cq-m311-e.html
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