[Milsurplus] Chineseium Plastics & Polyimers

[arc5 at ix.netcom.com]

The Chinese have a long history of leaving expensive stabilizers out of their plastic or polymer products. This is why, when you buy a refrigerator, the shelving in the doors lasts about 6 months and then starts cracking and breaking. This is why your radio develops the sticky-icky problem.

Even worse, metal canned food spoils much more quickly (you can taste the metal), because the cans are made in China, and the polymer coating that's supposed to keep the food away from the metal breaks down in short order. My family has gone to canning with the glass jars, but even there, the red sealing polymer on the lids is also chineseium and breaks down much more quickly, losing the food inside after only a year or two. We're busy trying to find an American-made lid for canning jars. Yeah I know - good luck finding anything American-made today.

GL OM DE AB5S
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