Jap Junk?...I thought it was "a Chinese Junk" (sailboat content ;-)
My understanding of the post Japanese WWll quality issue, was solely brought on
by an American named Demming, addressing quality issues. (Honda &Toyota?) I
think I read that in "In Search of Excellence" 30 years ago? I had a Benz 240
D...built like a tank, and sold it at 380,000 miles, with plenty left in
it.....know what ya mean thou on the shade tree repairs I made...
Patrick
DancesWithWaves
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Yes, I had a similar experience. Cutting tools must have good steel, something
the Chinese are disinclined to export. Certainly they can do it, they do have
machine shops that produce things. They just don't want to export it
apparently.
Some Harbor Freight things do work very well and are a good deal, others not so
much.
The Japanese had a similar problem just after WW2 when it was called "Jap Junk"
but they took the bull by the horns and created a national Quality Control
agency to approve all exported items. For years there was always a little oval
gold QC sticker on exported Japanese goods.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Gloucester MA
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