Screwed by cheap ass chinese shaZam! - yes shims are the #1

[metatron]

I heard the chinese make awesome shims...
*Runs like hell*

[Janx101]

Bahahaha. .. you mis-heard then! Maybe they said Chin? .. mister Chin velly top kwority machine operator for engine part! He blind but remember where button is!

[cWj]

Cheap is cheap. Don't want cheap, don't buy cheap...regardless of country of origin.


or we can all just keep making generalizations and jokes in pidgin because it's ok because we've got a friend that's........

[The Buddha]

The little takeout boxes. .. good fir transport and unfold them to use as a plate.... not so good for fridge storage... don't have enough seal to avoid germies while in fridge!

Yes I do that too. BTW, I much prefer Styrofoam, but I also have my own twist on Chinese food take out.
I only do take out from the local Chinese buffet (OK OK I ate there yesterday when I was shuttling between 2 places) and @ 3.99 a lb, its a total waste getting rice or noodles or any of that BS. I pretty much get 2 types of pan fried chicken that is almost all chicken. They have Jalapeno chicken and I think just plain Chinese chicken. I get only those 2 in 2 separate boxes. They go in the freezer.

I make rice or noodles or what ever at home. Then I pop out the cubes of chicken from the now frozen box and put it into the hot rice and shake it up. That way you have easy to make and eat food, and you're not eating all that chicken in 1 sitting - which I have done, and its nothing short of Coma inducingly good - Yesterday was one of those days. I was falling asleep for hours trying to pull parts at the junkyard.

Cool.
Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Cheap is cheap. Don't want cheap, don't buy cheap...regardless of country of origin.


or we can all just keep making generalizations and jokes in pidgin because it's ok because we've got a friend that's........

It may have been cheap when it left the Chinese factory. By the time 20 middle men got done with it, it was crap and $$$.
The Chinese shims are made of cast crap. I'll bet for the $5 you pay for those shims each, someone can get em made ...
The aussie company (Janx I think - if not I apologize) posted the link to will do shims for $6.60 and they can do as few as 1 - they stock and sell the things. It costs $40 to get em across the pacific though. That's the kicker. Its uneconomical to order less than 30-40.
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Buddha.

[ShowBizWolf]

@ Janx... omg I never thought about using the container as a plate and it just dawned on me to simply cut or rip off the metal handles!  Wow sometimes I can be so freakin' slow haha    Unlocking the secrets of the universe here I tell ya what!!

@Buddha that is a truly brilliant way to get Chinese food... you are right about the noodles and rice being dirt cheap from the grocery store but taking up all the weight. I don't think we have anywhere around here like that... it would be nice!

[metatron]

Buddha send me a pm with the dimensions, material etc for the shims. The Rand dollar exchange rate is a joke and know some awesome Engineering companies. Maybe we can organize a supplier here....

[metatron]

Cheap is cheap. Don't want cheap, don't buy cheap...regardless of country of origin.


or we can all just keep making generalizations and jokes in pidgin because it's ok because we've got a friend that's........

I just showed the post to my neighbor, he nearly killed himself laughing, says he will not buy Chinese crap either.  His name is Mike Yong Chen. He also asked when did the Americans lose their sense of humor.

[The Buddha]

The shims are 29.5 mm dia and 2.15mm to 2.95mm thickness.
I dunno some one should take the lead on this.
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Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Oh here is another -
Remember when we were kids we had to eat with a spoon and not turn the spoon upside down in your mouth.
Yea, worthless Chinese crap spoons if you do that in a few spoonfuls you'll tear your upper lip. The spoon is made with a weird curve that doesn't fit your mouth.

I think we have outsourced everything to people who don't use it.

Like clothes - we have people make pants for us, and they never wear pants, they wear a dothi.
Belts are made by people who have a string holding up their pants. Or heck they wear a lungi.
And, We outsourced spoon manufacturing to people who use chop sticks.

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Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Oh yea next installment of this -

I've bought T shirts recently, that feel nice and soft and thick, and they dont absorb - you mop your brow and it just moves it around.

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Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

A notable chinese invention, gunpowder. beyond that they have invented the art of the copy. on the cheap. once they figure out quality on the cheap we`re screwed.

[The Buddha]

A notable chinese invention, gunpowder. beyond that they have invented the art of the copy. on the cheap. once they figure out quality on the cheap we`re screwed.

I doubt it is ever possible. They have a very good planned obsolescence thing they have created. Sheiete looks awesome. And craps out rapidly. Destroying stuff you have maintained for years. Rubber parts that that crumble in 2-3 years, T-shirts that don't absorb, shims that break etc etc.
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Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

exhibit a : tools and knife blades.lol