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


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Andy Pugh <a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 2010/1/2 Dave <e...@dc9.tzo.com>:
>>   I'd prefer to use
>> all plastic but there are some places were plastic just doesn't work well.
>
> Stainless?
>
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