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Old and In the Way

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10. Well, there you go. Could be a ukranian component....could have been India, Chinese, or US.

Reply to unrepentant progress (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:47 PM

Oct 2014

But when we bite on cheap, don't be surprised when we get bitten back. There's sometime a reason when similR component cost drastically different....it is in the testing or chemistry or attention to tolerances. As we move further away from actual manufacturing, I suspect we will see more catastrophic failures made by non-US companies bidding on price with oversight by 20 something tech folks with no understanding of what they are evaluating. This old fart could be wrong, though.

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Still a lot of points of failure. And it will always be this way, I think. Old and In the Way Oct 2014 #5

In this case the machine was made of Ukranian components manufactured in the 1960s-1970s unrepentant progress Oct 2014 #9

Well, there you go. Could be a ukranian component....could have been India, Chinese, or US. Old and In the Way Oct 2014 #10

We'll know more soon I think unrepentant progress Oct 2014 #11

This old fart thinks you're probably spot on. (nt) paleotn Oct 2014 #14

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getting things right padruig Oct 2014 #22

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