You have to have a test for this? Anyone with any sense can look at it and see the poor quality.
This is one of the reasons when Freepers go off about a war with China I think, not if their weapons and equipment are made in China and maintained with Chinese tools. I can’t fix their products with their tools.
They are pretty good at building railroads, at least in this country.
Wonder what they will pay for good furniture.
We used to make it HERE
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/furniture-making-in-america-hi-152371
Mr. niteowl77
An experienced woodworker looks underneath. Whenever we need a new piece of furniture, we either go to the antique shops or make it ourselves.
China products are often cheap and shoddy
I can just imagine all those container ships sitting offshore awaiting for the one in front to be inspected and more than likely rejected.
Interesting fact that just happened to me, last june i bought at auction for $850 an inoperative 66kw 3 phase generator, new they are $66,000. Went through it, John Deere diesel runs great, the genset after i dug into it has a faulty diode plate, 2 of the six exciter diodes were bad.
I call up an electrical repair shop, he says the part is $462.00, i found the EXACT same part from China and bought it for $32.30, and thought it “might” work the problem is the expensive one probably came from the same place and is marked up.
Nobody makes it in America though you can buy just the unsoldered diodes and solder them in.
We need to bring back the manufacturing jobs in America, make it HERE. Reason it costs so much is EPA and other regulations and penalties brought on to kill the American production.
Abd it started with the Clintons.
There have been a few posters over the years saying “just you wait, remember Japan used to make poor stuff too, China will be the quality leader of the world too”.
It was more than ten years ago here that I first wrote a rebuttal saying that Japan went from more or less destroyed in 1945 to not just competitive but world class in small engines and motorcycles by the early 1960s. That was 15-20 years, and China was showing absolutely no signs of that kind of trajectory of giving a damn about anything more than putting out the cheapest crap they could.
When my parents passed I took as much of their vintage and antique furniture as I could and had it re-upholstered and repaired...Told daughter to be sure to keep it after I am gone as it has both quality monetary, sentimental value.
New furniture is crap!!
This is bad news for the owner of the factory that made the junk, he is now facing a bullet in his head.
Have you been to a big box American furniture store? They sell a lot of high priced, poor quality imported cr@p. We buy American made, mostly Amish. Price is competitive a lot of the time, quality is superb. And it’s real wood, which means it’s easier to repair should the need arise.
Some of America’s high priced furniture are made in China. Near here is a furniture warehouse/ headquarter of a furniture retailer and you can see the containers from China there. What a shame...
You see a lot of Chinese made furniture in stores. On first glance very pretty.
Then on closer examination it’s obvious quality is lacking.
Sadly mfrs. such as Thomasville, Broyhill and others have closed or cut back domestic manufacturing.
A lot of the plants around Hickory,N C are closed. Sad