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Posted by Mike (WA) on June 17, 2005 at 16:03:10 from (209.213.153.111):
In Reply to: Re: Sticker Shock posted by RayP(MI) on June 17, 2005 at 15:51:16:
And the ironic thing is that the Chinese steel is about the same tensile strength as salt water taffy. Had a pair of Chinese (congratulate me- I didn't use any racially stereotypic slang here) sidecutters- just bought them cheap at a bargain from Harbor Freight- had been feeling old and weak, but was encouraged to find that I could still break the nippers by squeezing with just one hand while trying to cut some wire. What did they mix with our perfectly good scrap steel to make it so lame? How can they make the castings on Jinma tractors so badly? Why did the Rhino at the last auction run so poorly, yet the auctioneer was obviously thrilled that they could even get it started? Do they have some kind of classes on this?
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