[Milsurplus] China Electronics Quality Control, Lack of

[Peter Gottlieb]

China is capable of meticulous quality.  It is frequently the corporate 
interest in saving money which limits quality.  In China, quality is 
simply another product attribute which has a cost, much more so than in 
other countries, as workers do exactly as they are told.  Someone at 
that manufacturer decided on a specific level of quality and that is 
what you got. 

As for their military, while I have no direct knowledge of the quality 
they look for in their equipment, I would expect that the common foot 
soldier would get equipment just good enough to be functional while the 
high end jets and so forth would have fairly tight standards leading to 
excellent reliability, but that's just a guess.  In any case I wouldn't 
underestimate them, they are certainly a power to be reckoned with.

Peter




Hue Miller wrote:
> Quoting from a note from a friend:
>
> "Roger on the improved version of the 81 set.  I'd be happy with this one if 
> I could replace the bad Nicads, or what ever they are.
>  .....RX is not that hot, but I could swap it out with the standalone 
> version that I have.  It's physically the same, but a little higher band 
> range.
>  I had two of the RX's, but upon opening the last one, discovered that the 
> vernier dial gears are brass dust now, and the band switch is
> messed up.  Mind you this was NOS out of the box.  [Name] got one in the 
> same condition.  Really bad QC or sabotage."
>
> China has done an amazing job ramping up from the Great Leap Backwards under 
> the Mao Religion but there have been
> problems along the way...and still are. I sometimes wonder how well their 
> war machine, their fighter aircraft and warships would
> work in a real stress test. -Hue Miller
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