@@user-pd9ju5dk5s When it comes to reliability, Porsche's are just as reliable as Lexus's ... Atleast Germans can actually manufacturer production Hyper cars.
@@JustinLodes I love how much they bicker when almost no one cares because the only thing that matters to most if the relation between cost and quality and tbh China's cost is so low it's always better if you just need something quick and dirty not necessarily for cars in a sense.
I worked I'm Munich in '95-96 as a sheet-metal worker, welder and I must state, as a British craftsman, the only people to match my skills were the Germans. Totally brilliant engineer's are the Germans.
It's funny you talk about price yet price does not determine good design. Let alone everything else. Learn how to source products by visiting the factory and ordering. This guy picked form probably a crap seller and grabbed the cheapest knowing what would happen for views. I wonder how many Americans even know how many patents or how large the Chinese industry is. China has more high speed rail than the rest of the world combined and is more stable than Japanese rail. And somehow out of the bearings in China he picked that one. 🤷
Met a man last week who loved gardening . He had a British garden fork that had been handed down in his family .It was 75 years old and was still in use . Was a bit worn so the man bought a new fork from B&Q and got to work in his garden . After ONE HOUR the shaft broke on the new fork . It had been made in China . 75 years as against 1 hour . He still uses his old fork .
What was the difference in price though? You can still get quality tools these day if you are willing to pay for them. If you buy a garden fork for $7.50, then it may or may not last.
Michael Huggett Triggers brush from only fools and horses. was 13 yrs old. But in that time he only had to replace the shaft 3 times and the head 4 times
that's such a huge difference in performance. ..the German keeps on going an unbelievably long time ...probably wouldn't have believed if i hadn't seen it.
most of the times you pay half the price for a chinese product so does that mean the man above with the fork could have made use of the chinese fork for ~37 years ? Obviously you get way less than what you paid for. This is the correct expression regarding most chinese products.
Yes, there is a difference. Many years ago, I had to replace a wheel bearing on the car I was using for autocrossing. The dealer laid out three for me, all looked identical, but the price went something like $5, $8, $15. "What's the difference I asked?" "The 4% is the factory original. The $8 is better quality. For $15, it will never even notice your car is putting weight on it." "Give me a complete set, front and rear, of those, I said." Even at the usual autocrossing speeds, a wheel bearing failure in the middle of a corner can cost a lot more than the bearings, even the expensive ones. I never had to buy another wheel bearing for that car.
A short time ago I worked in a Hardware Shop in New Zealand (Mitre 10) that was owned by a Chinese. The very interesting thing to me was even though we had a lot of Chinese customers they would not buy Chinese made products. I used to watch them walking around in the shop and they would look at a product and turn it over to see the information about it. Almost without fail they would put the Chinese products down and choose something else (the preference was German) such as Bosch etc. I asked a Chinese customer that was buying a German product why he had chosen that one. He laughed and said "Quality". After sometime and after analyzing sales the Chinese owner slowed down on the buying of Chinese products, especially anything with electronic components because even though they used to sell sometimes. Invariably they would come back for warranty claims. And before you say that he only brought low quality Chinese products, it was me that did the buying with him and we only chose products which had a very high rating on the websites (Alibaba was our main source) and had to pay the corresponding premium prices.
Till up to this day, Chinese people are afraid of their own powder milk and would buy lots of canned formula milk powder from New Zealand Countdown/Woolworth or Australia Coles and Aldi like mad people. They will buy like 6 cans or more and then ship it back to China.
@@Xyb3rTeCh Well after the Infamous tainted 'synthetic' milk powder that killed quite a number of infants in China you wouldn't blame them that much. Considering how good they are wíth manufacturing you can't really trust milk powder from there even if it says it's imported from another country(reminds me of a story where an iphone store was closed down in China where even the workers themselves knew it was a legit iphone store and they were working for iphone)
I believe mostly big corporations can get high quality stuff manufactured in China coz they can control n monitor every part of manufacturing otherwise those stuff from Alibaba are usually generic and unless you can monitor their production in instances where you are getting a custom machine or tool made quality isn't always going to be that great.
Was about to say exactly the same, get some grease there and it just stops as it should, done this so many times with wheel bearings, clean them up and they spin like crazy, add some wd40 or silicone oil spray and goes even faster. One true test was stress those bearings with and without grease, until they overheat and break. this is.. well... bullshit.
actually it means almost nothing unless it's under load.... might behave totally differently then - maybe they would be equally as good... impossible to know without trying it out.
It's funny how people assume one thing made by some company in China represents the rest of China. American assumptions. 50 cent? Getting old and stupid. No wonder US is in decline and in debt. Debt for decades, I mean how does a country manage to do that.
I would for sure have thought there was a difference, but the extent of the difference does amaze me. Just went to Germany for the first time last year and the whole country gives off an aura of precision and competence. Really enjoyed everything in Germany.
The Chinese manufacture for the price point that the locals can afford, and according to OEM's specifications. They do make quality products but only if the customer requests a higher spec. for example, my local DIY store has two types of garden taps for sale, both made in china by the same manufacturer, One tap is double the price of the other, the difference in quality is visually apparent in the wall thickness of the S-Steel used, the thicker handle, and the better quality of the threads. The Chinese are shrewd efficient business people, if cheap is requested they will provide, If quality is requested they will also provide. Learn to shop Chinese products.
other than that tap what can you say about most of chinese stuff? I bet at that price you find an EU made tap. Providing carcinogenic milk for infants instead of the real product is also requested? How many things are not allowed by law to be made in the west and are smuggled from china in dodgy containers?? I bet if you order toxic milk and toys they will be surrely eager to provide you for your children. Talking about how to shop chinese products... People like you don't get the bigger picture Please follow: fake milk in china to see what chinese moms have to endure, now they are smuggling milk from australia and all over
German engineering, still amazing....a good example is the Mercedes ML which completely lacks the expected buold quality of a real Getman built Mercedes Benz. Good video.
they only do wha th customer asks for. the western companies refuse to do the cheaper work. thats why in these hard times western companies are ordering from china. wanna place blame? blame the western company for doing any and everything to take jobs from westerners
John Hawk Unfortunately this isn't true, and GE closed our gas turbine blade factory outside Atlanta and sent much of the work to China, which then reneged on its promise to make the parts on schedule.
Modern China is only a bit over 30 years old when it started to open up to the world. I am a Vietnamese and I have trading with China. Don't be too complacent. The Chinese are perhaps the most intelligent and capable race I have ever met. Is it a wonder that for the past 3 years there have been an explosion of scientific breakthroughs from China. Supercomputers, nuclear fusion, quantum satellite (followed by quantum computers, quantum communication etc), hypersonic vehicles (well ahead of US's), etc etc. We are scared... you should be scared also.
Ball bearings have a standard called ABEC. Yes similar bearings will perform differently but their manufacturing tolerances reflect in their ABEC rating. A sloppy bearing may be ABEC 1 and a close tolerance bearing could be ABEC 5. There is little point comparing bearings of different ABEC levels.
yes but in China, their is no authority on slapping false labels on your products. You can slap an ABEC or an ISO492 label on it - but it means absolutely nothing, the bearings have imperfections and are incapable of meeting the standard for which they are designed for.
Well its up to the company to check that, and also its up to some independent organizations depending on what type of items we are talking about. Sure China can slap CE on every fucking electronic piece of shit they sell, but if you buy something called "chineesium 1000" thats what you get. Not even chinese people buy the crap they sell in the west.
Bob Charles Totally agree, I say stop use your Samsung or iPhone or anything computer related, and move back to caves ... they seem all come from one place ...
You can't compare two ball bearings just like that. You have bearings with lots of different tolerances. It totally depends on where it is made for. Bearings for a dentist drill for example are made to cope with 400.000 RPM. Those are produced at a much higher standard than car bearings.
From engineering view, you can select different grade of the bearing like what you see stength levels on the bolt, Bearings are built via industry standards which made by the steel ball, outer ring, cage and inner ring come with different material, tolerance level and lubirication of different viscocities in side. per industry standard, even at the same size, there will be differnt loading factor. The more loading factor it got, the more vescoity the lubrication would be then more resistance at free rotation. No double, German and Japan makes some of the high end of best bearing in the world, but that does not mean the Bearing make in china is a crap or a Copy. Manufacturers needs to consider about the cost vs the life expectation of mechanical parts. This comparing video does not mean anything unless it states the manufacturers, the procurement cost, the bearing models and the test conditions. That is what we call a true engineering facts and data
I recently replaced the trailer bearings on my boat. Previously when I replaced them I changed the hubs as well, but on one hub I left in the chinese bearing race, where on the other hub I change the bearing race to a japanese bearing race. I threw out the chinese made bearings, opting to replace them with the japanese made bearings. After 2 years of service I noticed on the japanese bearing races there was zero corrosion, and there was zero pitting or marks, where the same cannot be said for the chinese bearing races. Both hubs received the same brand new seals and brand new hubs. I have since replace d all bearing components with japanese components.
Made in America vs Made in China: Mostly made in China then shipped to America for the very last step (like putting it in a different box) vs Made in China and shipped to random store at 10,000% markup
1) you can see those bearings are in different sizes. Just pause the video in 0:12. meaning it has different purpose of its use. 2) this is not a copy. German doesn't have the copyright of bearing. 3) Chinese has high quality bearings too, you just don't buy it because you think Chinese product only deserve cheap price, that's where you ended up with cheap product. 4) High quality bearing and low quality bearing has different market, that's why there are 30 dollars bicycle, 300 dollars bicycle, and 3000 dollars bicycle. Totally depends on the customer level.
some country peoples always do that: go to China and using a lower price to by what they want. higher quality with higher price they don't buy. then complain Made In China no good... so ridiculous.
Sudarsono Sudarsono interesting question....30 years ago China was very weak.had no any industrial history before.community not allowed private business.. Europe has much longger history in industrial, nowaday many famous company have glory, they wouldn't produce lower quality product to break their glory. China as big as whole Europe, have a lot of "new"factory, they don't have or care about glory.this is the reason.. on the otherside China is changing, peoples are getting rich, would love to pay more to get better quality, more and more factories are changing for that, only produce good quality. however nowadays still have a lot of poor or rubbish countries in the world,only can pay lower price, that is also a big business.
Really good bearings can take over 10 minutes to come to a complete stop. Bearings that are used in aircraft instruments like the gyros in artificial horizons, or direction indicators take that a good 10 to 15 minutes to stop spinning
is it both bearings are at the same price? and i dont think the cheapest bearings made in germany are better than the most expensive one's which is made in china
ever what- Yes they ARE better, by far. Why? Because of something called 'pride of workmanship', something the Germans have always exhibited. The Chinese, on the other hand, do not understand the concept and only want to get rich quick and then leave the country for France or Switzerland or the U.S. They have no long-range business plans. It's a 'grab & gobble' type of mentality, evolved from centuries of not having enough food to go around.
That Kid in Africa- Well, actually, no. You see, I', actually quite intelligent and very well read, unlike you, obviously, so I guess that makes YOU the 'dumbfuck', now doesn't it?
The one that costs less to buy is the one that costs more to own.A German bearing will be expensive to buy but will last for years. A Chinese bearing will be cheap to buy but will only last for a year. This scales to all products. German (electromechanical) products costs twice as much but last ten times as long as Chinese products.
LittleNipper5- Good point, but I wonder why on one brought up a third alternative, that of buying an American-made bearing, Timken, or an SKF? Certainly of better quality than the Chinese bearing, probably every bit as good as the German bearing but at a lower price than the German bearing because of Germany's higher cost of manufacturing, typically higher than the U.S. by 15%. That's why so many German cars assembly plants are now in the U.S.- Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen. I recently bought a couple of good-sized SKF bearings for the front wheel of my '67 BSA and they only about $5.50 each, so what do I care how much cheaper I could have bought Chinese bearings? It wouldn't have even been worth the asking.
alexander kasady well... the european manufacturers don't open new plants in the us because the working hand is cheaper but because the taxes for exporting the same product from europe will make it more expensive on the us market, whilst their profits would keep being lower. and this is just a precise policy concerning just a type of goods that are very much required on the us market. bmw has opened a plant for making just the X series which sold greatly in the us, mercedes produced for the begining just the ML series in the us, which was a hit, and so on.
I bought an 8 lb. soil tamper a few years ago, it was made by True Temper, which is a quality tool Co. in the U.S.A., after using it I went to hose off the dirt and the metal tamping part was stamped Made in China. I was sickened by that for days because what I thought I was buying U.S.A., wasn't really U.S.A. at all, just the wooden handle.
I am a qualified mechanic and builder. I find some Chinese product adequate and even preferable when value for money is factored in. I was using a $100 breaker today that will last me up to five years if it goes as long as the last one. A good quality recognised brand would cost me about $800 (and might very well be also made in China).
This is like comparing economy class service quality with business class service while forgetting the huge price difference. You need compare apple with apple: for $30 chinese rice cooker which could last me a few years , now I would like to see what kind of rice cooker Germany can give me for $30. Same for other stuff from China like bath tub $180, shower screen $270, toilet suite $180, washing machine $225, air-conditioner $750 , fridge $700, microwave $120, etc. I want to know what Germany can make for this price.
You get what you pay for. Cheap = crap. I live in China and avoid "made in China" like the plague when possible. Even the food I eat and milk I drink are imported. LOL
Obviously, this comparison is totally unfair without considering the price. This Chinese product is of low price, may be 1% of the price of the Germany one. So if it made in China with the same price as the Germany one, I am sure it will be one of the best.
They make what people will pay for. The Chinese can make quality products like anyone else but the greedy, western companies that have products made there, want the cheapest they can get so its no problem for them replacing it when it breaks.
That is all due to the density of the lubricant whitin the bearing. Testing the rolling resistance of a bearing is not a trivial issue and cannot be done without loading the bearing. If you filled the bearing with dense lithium grease it would keep rolling for itself virtually no time and the rolling resistance would be in practise the same if not less. It's not difficult for a unshielded bearing to come new unlubricated as is very easy to load it with the best fit grease for the purpose it will have.
Sorry to disappoint those who still believe that everything made in Germany is top class, in the last time they started to make some crappy stuff, I don't trust them anymore. Once, a product stamped made in Germany meant high quality. Now, made in Germany has became history, the quality of their stuff decreased a lot.
rhemyis l bought a Leesa drill, paid extra for a German made one. The company in Germany does not reply to my email. As far as l can see the charger is made in China but the price is not far short of replacing the lot. Never buy German as the companies are run by bean counters, not by reputable manufacturers. Is Kress German for bad product!
Er, I am German, I live in Germany and my countries' wealth and economical power is based on small to middle sized private workshops, manufactures and factories. Why do you think Germany has such a high export/import surplus? Because we are or own best customer and don't want to buy the rubbish from outside the country. XD
Wake up Germany she's going to take you down and a lot of other countries with you, I'm from the U.K and German engineering has always been highly respected throughout the world. The old saying that paradise is a German engineer, a British policeman and a French lover, where as hell is a German policeman, a British lover and a French engineer could well be true.
Oo-oo-oo, sounds like he's sore because some one didn't want to play in his sandbox any more. With a childish attitude such as this it's no wonder any rational person would want to leave. Bravo to the Brits for placing a value on their own sovereignty, and especially for keeping their own monetary system and not adopting the Euro.
LOL, I know it as european heaven and european hell: Heaven: german engineer, british policeman, italian lover, french cook and swiss accountant Hell: german policeman, british cook, swiss lover, french engineer and italian accountant.
Jens Fischer- I appreciate the humor in this, but I have to admit that I like French cars. Now, I realize that that's akin to admitting to harboring a sexual fantasy about one's sister, but I've been familiar with French cars since 1962 or thereabouts, and I just love their comfort and ride quality. And their charm. What the heck, SOME body has to stick up for them.
It depends on the price，if you choose a Chinese bearing with high price like German bearing，you would find its good too，but you choose the cheapest one
For me, cheap is not as important as quality. Resources on earth are limited. If there is low quality, it won't last that long. And it will waste resources.
For me, price is not as important as quality. Resources on earth are limited. If there is low quality, it won't last that long. And it will waste resources.
Not they're not they're only assembled there, the microprocessors and everything that actually requires precision engineering are manufactured in other places.
There's a difference between " assembled in china" under strict guidance by the original manufacturers.....vs ... " rubbish and knock-offs made-in-china"
The German bearing is remarkably frictionless, but even the tiniest amount of lubricant - even super-thin watch oil - in the Chinese one would cause that. I'm not disputing your findings, but I wonder if you are really comparing like with like.
The main reason is because lubrication, the first bearing had grease in it that slowed it down quickly and the second one was almost dry therefor it spun longer.
Main measurements for bearing are precision, speed, direction, load and operational condition, and these factor are not visable. To judge the quality of the bearing base jist on the look is utterly inaccuate, absurd and insane. It is worse to judge it when it is not in operating state.
it's not the price that matters as shown in the so called demonstration, he never know if he put some oil in the so called German bearing and no oil in the brand new Chinese bearing, or who knows the bearing that keeps turning may be the Chinese one, it's just an obvious propaganda against Chinese products that's all, you can ignore that shit!
Rolling time hardly depends on grease viscosity and quantity. Are those washed in petrol or something similar to remove any grease before they compared?
Unlike 99.99% of all posters, i live and engineer high level products in China. Chinese are capable of making any product as good as any country in the world, and please note their current space program. China also makes some of the worst cheap shit in the world as well, and it's your fault, yes you because you buy cheap crap and then blame a whole country because you're a tightass who won't spend a few more dollars. The joke is that Chinese in China don't buy the cheap shit you do, so pop off down to Walmart or Home Depot and be a tight ass, buy a piece of cheap shit, and when it breaks make sure you get on the internet and tell everybody that China stuff is shit..
Actually a lot of this "cheap crap" works great for everyday usage, e.g. multimeters, infrared thermometers and other measuring equipment. I am not sure if they last as long as products made e.g. in Germany or the US, but I only use them for hobby so they are not as heavily used as in a work envirnoment and in these conditions they still last "forever". Also OI didn't note any difference in accuracy. I think they need to be as accurate as stated because they have the CE mark.
Mark Mark Chinese buy their own cheap shit too you know? Of course they want better quality, can't afford it. Also it doesn't help that the government taxes the shit out of anything foreign branded. A good example of this would be cars.
Shyru, too long a story, but comes down to stepping off the plane 13 years ago and rapidly finding out my Government and media were lying their asses off about China (and other) countries to hide what's actually wrong with our own country. Worst of all, they keep it up so excessively rich people can make money from military expenditure for all this fake hate rather than looking after their own people properly, medical, infrastructure, manufacturing etc. Angry now I see how many people fall for it, ignorant sheep. As far as I'm concerned, every time someone bags out China they are merely a part of a system that's damaging their own backyard.
community, no they don't, Chinese do not buy that crap, they start at mid level quality and try to buy the best they can otherwise. They believe in spending a little extra for long service, they are very decent micro economists actually. You would be stunned at their patience and money saving abilities to reach the target they set. A bad example for you would be cars, they are expensive here, relative, especially foreign cars, and yet they are the largest buyers of cars on the planet. The Chinese car manufacturers have had to seriously lift their game in the last few years to get people to buy them, again because Chinese don't buy crap. Go Google the top ten selling cars year by year for the last 10 years to see that. It's only the last few years that Chinese cars are getting into the top ten, and last year hit number one for the first time. Consider those cars cost 40 to 60% of foreign cars and are only just getting sales. Hell I have a $110,000 Tesla, a $40,000 Mazda 6 and a $15,000 Electric Chinese JAC! By the way, they generally pay cash for their cars, don't even pretend to compare Chinese credit debt with typical Western credit debt, cause it virtually doesn't exist. Yup those poor Chinese, I've assimilated, no debt, own all my cars, houses and shops, wake up every morning not having to worry about my next bill to pay, because they don't exist anymore. Living the life.
Biase opinion. Question of PRICE ??? Chinese quality goods are made and sold as german and other quality goods. so in defence, it's a lesser against a better. not a same kind, same category just different origin.
Ball bearings are NOT to be tested while under no load. The guy in the video removed the grease inside the ball bearing with acetone perhaps, making it spin more freely. Under load the bearing would fail quite quickly.
stupid video again! Can German build space station by itself? Can German make quantum computer? Can German make and launch quantum satellite? Can German make 5th generation stealth fighter? Can German build up 5th generation wireless systems which the whole world have to use in the coming years? Can German make the fastest supercomputers like chinese? the top 8 supercomuters are : 1.Sunway TaihuLight - China 2.Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) - China 3.Piz Daint - Switzerland 4.Titan - United States 5.Sequoia - United States 6.Cori - United States 7.Oakforest-PACS - Japan 8.K Computer - Japan
Ernte König As of today, I have not seen a video showing that coins can stand in Germany train or Japanese train. How could coins stand on Chinese high-speed train all the time? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wx1GV0R79Tw.html
I had a ceiling fan switch go. At an electrical company, the clerk brought 2 identical switches out. I asked what was the difference... He said Chinese here buck and a half. American here $4.50.. I said "what's the difference". He said the reason you're here with the broken one is that it was a Chinese switch. I GLADLY paid the four fifty.
We inventetd and build the first Space rocket ! "Unforgettable and incomparable is the picture," enthused engineer and Major Walter Dornberger after the first successful launch of an aggregate-4 rocket on October 3, 1942 in the Army Research Institute Peenemünde. 14 meters high and weighing about 13 tons, it reached a speed of 1340 meters per second - 4820 km / h or Mach 3.9 - and crashed into the Baltic Sea in just under five minutes (the colored photo probably shows a start in 1943) , For the first time, a human-engineered missile struck the limit of space 84.5 kilometers.
Not with my tax money please. Americans have been there a looong while ago and apparently didn't find much of use, else they would go there more often. Silly prestige stuff. I hope the chinese government is wise enough to go for better investments.. .
I bought a 200cc dual sport motorcycle made in China. This was in the year 2007. I paid about 1200.00$ for it. It came in a crate and I had to assemble it which was not very hard. I noticed right away that Chinese metal is very soft and I had to use extra care when I tightened down any bolts. Right away the plastics paint started to fade, then crack and fall apart. The switches on the handlebar were made of plastic and started to break apart. I held them together with cable ties and silicone sealer. The paint on the tank faded immediately. Having said all this I jury rigged the machine all the time but I have to say, the bike never failed me and I used it as a daily commuter for years. The engine proved to be the only robust thing on the bike. I changed its oil regularly and I recently sold it for 400.00$ Despite it all I actually got my moneys worth many times over-----but, I would NEVER buy another motorcycle built in China!
How long the bearing spins means nothing to longevity or durability. In fact, a loosely designed bearing will spin longer when there is no load, but will quickly tear itself apart when stressed with a heavy load.
So, which one is better, Chinese or German bearing? As I can see, one bearing seems to be without oil or grease and keeps spinning longer, as I can see, the other bearing that stops spinning quicker is probably well greased and grease creates friction when cold. As I can see, anything shown on RU-vid has it's secrets, as I can see...
I think I saw the original video, and the bearing made in China had a heavier grease... I couldn't figure out why in the world he would compare them with a no load spin test like this when he used different lubes! I think what he said was that he used the lube recommended for each. In that case, with different weight lubes, this test really does not show what it appears to. That said, German bearings are legend, and I love them.
It depends on how much you like to pay... 'YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR' always apply no matter what. Bones red bearings are pretty sweet despite the fact that they are made in China. ---------------------------------------------------- Bones Bearings Reds Bearings: www.amazon.com/Bones-Bearings-Reds/dp/B003U7TQ5U
When I was buying a Chinese made air compressor from Harbor Freight the salesmen said " Chinese stuff is not junk but you have to know which parts to replace immediately.' He told me to replace the snap on coupler so I went down the road and bought a Bosch part and the whole system has lasted for years.
I've always had a philosophy, that if you do something, do it properly or don't do it at all. I never buy cheap tools, I can't stand floppy saws and wrenches that break my hand before they break apart. If I build a plywood wall, I search for best plywood known to man, not cheapest. Same when I cook something.
I've been working in several metal industries in Sweden. I've manufactured specific cogwheels by customer demand, I've been making tools for pressing certain shapes and models out of stainless steel, I've milled huge series of gearbox housings for lorrys, the foots of a certain servicerobot, hydralic pressure routers, big rollbearing holders in brass, etc, etc. You know what, every got damn shop and factory has closed because of chinese competition. Everyone, EVERYONE!! wants to buy stuff for the cheapest price, no one even cares about quality no more, as long as it is cheap they can throw it away and still be satisfied with the fact that they didn't spend a fortune on crap. We just can't keep up with the chinese pace, or level with their prices, even though it has to be shipped around the world for the sake of it. Geez, what a world I live in, it's f'ing crazy is what it is..
Main issue is the quality of the steel used. Chinese mfgs. use recycled steel (costs less than 1/3 the price of virgin steel). This can be perfectly OK, as long as that batch is not contaminated with copper, aluminum, zinc, etc. If the steel is heavily contaminated, the bearings will wear out prematurely.
I had a auto performance parts business many years ago. I wanted to make a part and compared prices from the U.S. and China. My cost for the part made in the U.S. would have been $700 and in China $100. Of course the $700 part was 100 times better made with top notch materials but, the customers preferred the cheap part. You want cheap garbage, China will always provide. People don't care how long it lasts or the build quality, they want it cheap and they want it now. Look at the garbage people buy from the dollar stores. Fathers used to pass down there old toys to their children. Now, toys are broken within days if not minutes. But this is what the people want.
Do you remember when the only things that you could buy that were made in Japan were those little tiny decorative balsa wood umbrella and those woven straw tubes that you stick your fingers into and can't pull out? If something was of very poor quality, we said it was "Jap".
i still remember my bike mechanic turning away a customer because his bike was made from China. it wasnt personal but he knew no matter how much he repaired the bike, it will still turn out bad. he's an honest mechanic, and it has got nothing to do with money. German culture: Quality China culture: Cut cost, High Profits, Low quality products, to hell with integrity as long as you don't get caught.
