On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:15:27 -0500, Ignoramus32225
wrote:

On 2007-10-29, (Tom) tom wrote:

Are those skateboard bearings really made to ABEC 7? Or is that some
clever marketing ploy?

There is a company selling skateboard bearings that is named "ABEC-7"
and it has nothing to do with their quality. You are correct that a
true ABEC -7 bearing meets extremely tight tolerances.

Maybe I should open a company called "18k Gold" and start making crap
jewelry...

i

In the 50's, when "made in Japan" was worse than "made in China" is
today, there was a town named "Usa" in Japan so they could mark stuff
"made in usa". Or so it was reported in the Reader's Digest.