Ignoramus19284 wrote:

I have no doubt that the Chinese are capable of making high quality
products, especially under Starrett supervision and with CNC
equipment.

Looking at the HF dig calipers it's abundantly clear that the Chinese
are capable of producing quality products without supervision of a US
company. Those calipers are really quite good for general use, with
their only real fault being relatively short battery life. They are
quite acceptable for nearly any HSM use, at 1/10 the cost of the big
guys products.


The poor quality chinese tools are uslally this way because they are
spec'ed this way by the purchaser.

Typically.


It must be noted, however, that the Chinese like to cheat at every
opportunity, hence the need for supervision.

That does seem to be the case with many of the Chinese companies doesn't
it?