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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
And it's not just their naval shipyards, it seems to be endemic to their whole fabrication industry. Two examples, one from personal experience and one from a friend who worked in mine site construction.
1. At my old workplace, we purchased some industrial dust extraction units from a PRC company. The motors accompanying the units were underpowered, the legs to stand the units on were designed in a manner that prevented easy access to the dust collection drum and the electrical and pneumatic controls can only be accessed via a ladder (true, only a small ladder, but you still can't reach the controls from ground level)
2. My friend mentioned this to me. It occurred sometime in the mid-2000s on the construction site he was on in the north west of Western Australia. The construction company decided to buy pre-fabricated steel beams from China because they were cheaper than having them made in Australia. Unfortunately, the manufacturer in the PRC had put all the bolt holes in the wrong places and some beams were not the right length.
All the steel beams had to be shipped about 1500km (approx 930 miles) to Perth to be fixed for a not insubstantial cost - the rumour being that the whole exercise cost as much as if they'd just bought the beams from an Australian company.
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Something the Chinese have been putting in their gypsum mix has been "eating" metal studs in new house construction here in FL for a while. To the point that a lot of houses that passed initial inspection were failing later.
This was all after our 4-hurricane season back in '04 when poor Port Charlotte got wiped off the map, and there was more widespread damage thru the state.