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On 12/11/2018 16:21, Sam E wrote:
On 11/11/18 6:35 PM, Rod Speed wrote:

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Most things were invented in Scotland.

BULL****. The steam engine wasn't, cars weren't,
computers weren't, aircraft weren't, trains weren't.

Somewhere I remember someone claiming that everything was
invented
in
Russia.

China surely...

Japan invents,

Japan has invented **** all.

China makes stuff that falls apart in 2 days.

My iphones havent.

Perhaps just using their workers is ok, and it's their designers
that
are
incompetant.

Nope, plenty of what they have designed works fine.

Try going to Ebay and buying some electronics from there.

Been there, done that, plenty of it works fine as you can see from
Big
Clive's teardowns.

Now buy a Chinese £1.99 battery charger. After the tenth use it
will
crumble as you pull it out of the socket.

None of mine have.

I just noticed this on another Chinese charger, which I've had for
about
6
months. The pins on the plug are actually plastic, with silver paint
on
them to conduct the power! It's wearing off as you can see:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uiruq8g0t2bqj7q/plug.jpg?dl=0

Fark, never seen anything like that yet.

But do you buy the cheapest **** on Ebay like I do?

Yep, and the even cheaper **** on aliexpress too.

Never tried that website, I thought that was where people buy things by
the 1000?

Nar, that's alibaba.

Are they related? And is it any better than Ebay? And is it in the UK?

I just wanted something to charge some 18650 LiIons.

I bought two of those for that. I use them in my torches.

Yes, and to think we used to have those huge D cell torches that lasted
half an hour or so.

I used torches that used the much bigger
lantern batterys and stole those from work.
https://www.rsea.com.au/hardware/ele...bat6v-and-ur6v

I managed to get industrial NiCads to make the normal torches and cycle lamps run for an eternity, even with a brighter bulb. At the time a normal NiCad was 1.2Ah. Mine were 4Ah and significantly heavier. Got my radio controlled Toyota Hilux going at a tremendous speed too.

And before rechargeables, leaving it on by mistake was very annoying when
you destroyed two or more Duracells.

It does work, and at 1 amp per cell (charges 1 or 2 at once).