Steel rod life expectancy

[Bill Edgeworth]

Originally Posted by SSDiv6

Ariel,
They only way a company can do so by creating a standard or specification for their products and having contract first article inspection oversight on location at the foundry or manufacturing facility.

Do a search on this forum on recent complaints as regards to the inconsistencies of their retainers.

Nevertheless, the Israeli company that makes the Titanium valves for Manley, is a reputable company that makes aerospace components.

Third party audit/inspection and quality control companies are now a huge industry in China. You can get just about any ISO or ASTM test you want done there now. You can have tests done during and post production……whatever you want and even more commonly inspection of container loading to make sure you don’t get ripped off. Even Chinese companies use these services themselves now to make sure their sub-contractors don’t rip them off. There is a full spectrum of manufacturing there from absolute top level quality manufacturing to companies that can’t make anything but garbage. If you have something from China that junk it’s probably because the number one criteria of the guy selling it to you was getting it at the lowest possible price.
Interesting thing going on there now especially in Guangdong Province is that lots of big corporations are now moving out to places like Vietnam because they can make things even cheaper.

So based on you comments about quality and consistency they are probably less concerned about the quality than they are the price.