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Desertboy said:
LOL I think the only way to explain this properly is to get you some pics from work of 2 similar items we bought one UK made and one US made. The UK made one the boss went mental at us for buying Chinese shit until we showed him the manufacturing certificates lol. You will be shocked to see just how piss poor some of our manufacturing has become.

Also my American car is 1.75mm thick metal my UK car is 0.6mm!
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Yep but bro u need a 5.7 to move it lol
 
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Desertboy said:
LOL I think the only way to explain this properly is to get you some pics from work of 2 similar items we bought one UK made and one US made. The UK made one the boss went mental at us for buying Chinese shit until we showed him the manufacturing certificates lol. You will be shocked to see just how piss poor some of our manufacturing has become.

Also my American car is 1.75mm thick metal my UK car is 0.6mm!
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Yes because of course every day you hear about people going on about American engineering being the best in the world............oh no wait thats the germans n the english they meant lmao
 
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Saerimmner said:
Yes because of course every day you hear about people going on about American engineering being the best in the world............oh no wait thats the germans n the english they meant lmao
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TBH every country has factories that make complete shit I was just shocked at the product we bought direct from UK manufacturer as not only was it very very poor quality but they had the cheek to say made in the UK as if they had something to be proud of.

I have a set of 1950's cast iron drills from the UK now they are proper UK made and something to be proud of!
 
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What was someone saying about american engineering??

New York crane collapses killing at least one person
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Media captionAt least one dead in New York City crane collapse
A large construction crane has collapsed in lower Manhattan in New York City, killing one person and injuring at least two others.

The Fire Department of New York confirmed the fatality and is on the scene responding to the accident.

The collapse happened along West Broadway early on Friday morning in the Tribeca neighbourhood.

The downed crane, which filled the street, fell onto numerous parked cars.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the victim was sitting in a parked car at the time of the accident, and that it was caused by high winds.

Workers were in the process of lowering the crane due to the high winds when it collapsed. No workers were injured.

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Image caption Emergency crews are on the scene of the collapse
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Image caption It is unclear what caused the collapse
"It was right outside my window," witness Robert Harold told the AP news agency. "It was a crashing sound. You could feel the vibration in the building. I looked out the window and saw it lying in the street."

Mr Harold said he saw someone trapped in a car and someone lying in the street.

The crane was replacing air conditioning equipment in an existing building when the crash occurred, the first for New York City since 2008.

"The fact is, this is a very very sad incident, we lost a life," Mr De Blasio said. "If you go out there and see what happened, thank God it was not worse."

All cranes in New York City have been ordered to be lowered after the incident.

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Image caption The collapse left debris all over the street
The boom of the crane was 500ft (152m), authorities said.

The weather in New York City this morning was windy with snow flurries.

Public transportation is delayed and subway trains are bypassing the area due to the collapsed crane.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35505329
 
#15,829
Desertboy said:
TBH every country has factories that make complete shit I was just shocked at the product we bought direct from UK manufacturer as not only was it very very poor quality but they had the cheek to say made in the UK as if they had something to be proud of.

I have a set of 1950's cast iron drills from the UK now they are proper UK made and something to be proud of!
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Depends if it said "manufactured and assembled" or "made" in UK, there is a big difference lol
 
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I've never known uk was noted for their build quality...
 
#15,833
Saerimmner said:
Depends if it said "manufactured and assembled" or "made" in UK, there is a big difference lol
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I work as a buyer for a wholesaler these was made in UK which means they bought preprocessed metal sheets and stamped them out on jigs and fitted off the shelf parts into the end product.

It was the thickness of the metal sheets that let it down, the off the shelf (Chinese) parts were fine. These were to be fitted in an industrial factory and we could bend the metal with our finger tips! We scrapped the pallet in the end. I will try to get a photo tomorrow when i go work I mostly work from home/customers premises and rare I get into the office.

We kept a few of the fitting as examples so we never make that costly mistake again.
 
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Desertboy said:
I work as a buyer for a wholesaler these was made in UK which means they bought preprocessed metal sheets and stamped them out on jigs and fitted off the shelf parts into the end product.

It was the thickness of the metal sheets that let it down, the off the shelf (Chinese) parts were fine. These were to be fitted in an industrial factory and we could bend the metal with our finger tips! We scrapped the pallet in the end. I will try to get a photo tomorrow when i go work I mostly work from home/customers premises and rare I get into the office.

We kept a few of the fitting as examples so we never make that costly mistake again.
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Out of interest, you being an experienced buyer, did you specify the materials required/tolerances/build quality needed etc or just let them do their own thing?
 
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Saerimmner said:
Out of interest, you being an experienced buyer, did you specify the materials required/tolerances/build quality needed etc or just let them do their own thing?
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No we buy off the shelf products most of what we sell is to the EU although we do have a few big UK customers. The samples they supplied were not the final product (this happens all the time! Although first time with UK company before with Chinese companies this is the norm!) they delivered not sure if we ever got the money back for the pallet we ordered that's not my department. Generally though when shit like this happen inside the company we never see the cash again and it's wrote off but also we never use that supplier again.
 
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