How do they do it?
Today I fitted a tv to a Swivel Tilt wall mounting bracket, nothing special in that you may think.
What is amazing to me is that the cost of the bracket that included, 12 fixing bolts and washers, two large rawl-plugs and screws, one spanner and one allen key. All of this,
including delivery to my nearby Argos shop, £4.99.
The bracket was made in China but supplied from a UK based eBay seller.
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How do they do it???
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Nevers I use a Chinese company for my vaping supplies, a pack of coils in the UK is £10 but for the same genuine pack from Hong Kong is £2.39 including delivery, it takes around 3 weeks from ordering to receiving, the coils are actually made in the UK too
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Chinese steel doesn't have a good reputation but as long as it's in a TV bracket rather than an aircraft wing there's plenty of it around at cheap prices.
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Steel winged aircraft, now there's a novel idea.
Jenny C as far as I'm aware aircraft wings and parts aren't glued on.
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Bit like aluminium submarines I guess.
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Nevers I use a Chinese company for my vaping supplies, a pack of coils in the UK is £10 but for the same genuine pack from Hong Kong is £2.39 including delivery, it takes around 3 weeks from ordering to receiving, the coils are actually made in the UK too
Write your comments here...jamiej are you SURE they are genuine. My nephew has worked in China for about two years and he tells me that you get get fakes of just about everything, if you want to, at ridiculously low prices. If something with a well known
brand name is cheap out there it is almost certainly fake. This could also apply to anything imported to the UK. If something could affect my health I certainly wouldn't take the risk just because it was cheap.0 -
Chinese steel doesn't have a good reputation but as long as it's in a TV bracket rather than an aircraft wing there's plenty of it around at cheap prices.
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Steel winged aircraft, now there's a novel idea.
Jenny C as far as I'm aware aircraft wings and parts aren't glued on.
Maybe wings are not glued on but plenty of othe components are laminated using adhesives, where did the idea that wings are glued on come from?
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Just trying to say that some aircraft sections contain steel but it has to meet stringent checks if it's a flying part. Giving up now, it was a lighthearted comment, used to order tons of the stuff at work...
And we've got a similar TV bracket in our van.
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Just trying to say that some aircraft sections contain steel but it has to meet stringent checks if it's a flying part. Giving up now, it was a lighthearted comment, used to order tons of the stuff at work...
And we've got a similar TV bracket in our van.
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I posted lightheartedly and I took your post similarly. As a matter of interest metal parts used on aircraft are tightly specified to specific hardness and strength, not just recycled tin cans. I flew them for a lot of years. There's a great deal of adhesive used too and very recent designs are built/ glued from carbon fibre and composite resins. However some use of steel bolts, brackets etc is inevitable, but not made from unspecified Chinese steel or anyone else's. Technologically the Chinese are likely to overtake the USA in due course. They are already 'the factory of the world' iPhones, for example, are made there. The make Kampa awnings too.
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Re. the OP, the Chinese have developed efficiency by devoting whole towns, small cities even, to specific industrial diciplins i.e. Metals. They control workforce migration by providing social welfare to migrants who they want.
City and industrial wages are higher than those in rural areas though much lower than those in the west. The frightening issue is that this disparity won't last indefinitely, but it suits the Chinese economy to gain a highly competitive market share until
they dominate - then how will we be?0
