3 Aug
2009
3 Aug
'09
11:05 a.m.
Most probably
made in China by some outfit that also turns
out all
manner of unrelated items.
it's no secret that many thing (maybe all?) are made in PROC these
days. But they can vary widely in quality. My unit was a piece of junk.
Same w/their machine tools (I was told 10 years ago by an old machinist From articles in the UK Model Engineering magazines, it
appears that the
Chinese lathes are OK _if you buy them as a starting point_. In
other
words when you get one, you need to strip it down, check alignment,
possibly ture up some parts and reassemble it (correctly). At least one
importer of such machines in the UK offers them at 2 prices -- as they
come from China or (for more money, of course) after they've done some
work on them
the quality be getting better...I'd swear on a
bible that if I spoke to
the same dude today he'd say exactly the same thing - but you run your
chances when you buy one. Sorry, there's just no argument there. Granted
a few of the smaller garden variety chinese lathes _can_ sometimes
But is it any suprise I didn't buy such a machine tool :-)
represent a bargain (I hesitate to say *value*). I
don't hate them, nor
the Chinese people of course, you just have to be real careful. What I
do hate though is Chinese human rights violations. And the loss of our
manufacturing sector. But I digress.
Agreed.
-tony