On 3/6/2012 11:07 PM, Donn Messenheimer wrote:

40 years ago, people were saying the same things about Japanese
manufacturing. My younger brother was a fairly typical gearhead mechanic
in those days, and they all referred to Japanese cars as "Jap crap."
Look where that attitude got the American car companies.

Yup. What I tell people that think China -can't- produce quality, is
they are only the third nation to put a man in space. Even though
they've been able to learn heaps from the USA and USSR on how to do it,
it still demands an exceptionally high degree of manufacturing and
quality control. Too many things to go wrong to pull that off with a bit
of 'Right Stuff' bravado.

They are making dirt cheap stuff because people are buying it...


Jon