Yes a $2 Chinese shim blows up your motor. Very very awful issue - enough reason to go to china a kick those fools asses ...
OK what else.
My oldest complaint - pants with pockets that are not wide enough, so you put stuff in them, and it settles your way under your leg/butt. Yea way to go fools, thanks for making us sit on our keys.
Yea I've seen the Chinese harbor freight vice that broke someone posted on this site.
Chinese junk electronics - total garbage. Its nearly not worth trying to fix electronics, 99% of electronics you get as replacements for vintage stuff is garbage. If you're lucky, it will work when you power it on, and die peacefully when you turn up ... and if you're not lucky ... it will blow other crap when you power it up.
The newest and possibly the most trivial ... Kites from china are garbage, as are those string reels ...
I am a sorta kite expert. I can get almost anything up in the air if it was made right - and I have had kites since 94-95 that I flew until maybe 2012. My son in 2006-7 let go of a string and the kite flew away with the end reel and stuck in the tree across from my house. It flew there that night. Next day, I bought another kite and string. Sent it up and tangled it in the other kite string 1/2 way up, and pulled it back and got the other kite out as well.
And the last 3 kites I bought - do not fly, and never will. You cant get it off the ground during hurricane Kartina. If you're into kite flying - try this - tie a 1-2 ft string to the kite and walk/jog with it. If the kite flies off the string head pointed up - it will fly. Else it will not. The 3 I tried - hang top facing down. DOA. Anyway a delta kite, 42-60" span I got in the end worked.
Another tip - If a kite if made of plastic, you cant fly it around trees and bushes. If it ever gets to those bushes, it will rip. But otherwise plastic kites fly easy.
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Did your motor just die?
I used to fly a lot, mostly 2 line, but some 4 as well. I hardly ever put up a single line kite.
I actually moved to the beach just to work at a kite shop and learn how to kite surf. Fun stuff, but the riding sucked. I missed the mountains and sold my bike within months of moving there because I didn't care for cruising and that's all there was.
Actually my motor needs a valve adjustment. I haven't done it cos I need to source the non Chinese shims. And I am lazy, and I'm moving out of storage cos those A$$holes raised the rent on me. All round crappy time to deal with a sheitteiy Chinese kite that hangs upside down.
I have never flown anything other than a single line kite. But I am partial to what is famously (in my home town) called a madras style kite. Its a high force kite made with pre formed and bent thick bamboo spine and bow design. It will need 30 lb line and it will clean yank you off the ground if you're not careful. They also make a racket as the paper rustles in the wind. But they will fly in 0 wind Especially if you're on a building or in a nice open field.
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Here is what I've been thinking ... wow dude ... you just blew my mind. You can ... THINK :mad: :cookoo: :2guns:
OK, if these Chinese fools cant make a shim that wont break - something we have managed to do for ... I dunno 100 yrs ... and a kite that can actually get in the air, and a kite string reel that will unroll when needed, something I am sure a cave man could ... or atleast 200 yrs ago we did ... how the f&ck are we supposed to feel comfortable driving around in a 4000 lb tin can full of these types of sheitte.
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This guy's threads are always, always, worth the read. :whisper:
(http://s1.postimg.org/e06z9b4e7/Chinese_flag_Beijing_IMG_1104.jpg)
BTW: The Nigerian cell phone hacker thread is still my all-time favorite. :bowdown:
Quote from: Electrojake on July 08, 2015, 08:17:17 PM
This guy's threads are always, always, worth the read. :whisper:
(http://s1.postimg.org/e06z9b4e7/Chinese_flag_Beijing_IMG_1104.jpg)
BTW: The Nigerian cell phone hacker thread is still my all-time favorite. :bowdown:
Oh that one, last winter. BTW I lifted the names from this beauty - real incident in our fantastic Charlotte Mecklenberg schools.
Link - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835157/Test-referring-big-bootie-pulled-school.html
In case it gets pulled soon - The text is -
'How likely is LaPrincess to inherit LaShamanda's big bootie?' School pulls 'racist' science question after outcry
Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, ran the question
Item in genetics quiz asked about Fontavius, LaPrincess and LaShamanda
For an example of a family trait to assess, the question choose 'bootie' size
Question sparked anger among parents who called out 'racist' language
School district distanced themselves from question and won't use it again
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A science question asking whether a woman named LaShamanda would pass on her 'big bootie' to her daughter has been removed from lessons after parents said it was racist.
Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, featured a genetics question in which students were asked to work out the likelihood of a child - LaPrincess - getting 'her mama's big bootie'.
Outraged parents question seized upon the question's language, which they said uses racial stereotypes and belittles black people, causing school authorities to withdraw it from tests.
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The question, reported by WBTV, was designed to tests whether the students could understand the difference between a dominant trait, which parents are likely to pass on, and a recessive one, which they are not.
It begins: 'LaShamanda has a heterozygous big bootie, the dominant trait. Her man Fontavius has a small bootie which is recesiive. They get married and have a baby named LaPrincess.'
After asking students to show their workings, two questions were asked:
'What is the probability that LaPrincess will inherit her mam's big bootie?'
'If LaShamanda and Fontavius have another child, what is the probability that it will have a big bootie?'
The mother of an Ardrey High student said: 'This is not appropriate language at all for the children in the school'.
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BTW Point #1: I don't see how its racist at all. No mention of their race at all. I think the people reading the thing are making their own race related assumptions. And that is stupid since I know a fair bit of white people with equally stupid names, especially princesa. Not Mexican, I asked her quite a few times. She was white.
Point #2: That Ardrey Kell school is in the whitest part of this area, not to mention the most McMansions per square mile. Tasteless McMansions. Retarded looking 5000 sqft 3 story + roof types complete with 20 hacienda's and a Porte Cocheire etc etc in a 8000 sqft property. So I can easily see why they are over reacting. These people are Morons.
Point #3: Ardrey kell school is one of the biggest in drug trafficking in this area - http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/cmpd-sees-increase-heroin-arrests-overdoses-south-/nfCNg/
Most users questioned told police they first tried heroin between 16 and 18 years old and the top three high schools they attended are Ardrey Kell, South Mecklenburg and Providence.
"I literally was talking to a parent last weekend about this and she does have children at Ardrey Kell," said Caroline, a mother.
Obviously they don't want people whose names could sound black affecting their heroin or their tacky ass McMansions. What is the Bootie is so big, its unaffected by Heroin and the McMansions don't fit the bootie.
Anyway Nigerian check scammer was asked to write a check to Lashamanda and I asked him to come and get the item from my Man Fontavius. I am not sure what he did though.
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Wow! That was a lot to digest. :icon_eek:
Let me dig a little deeper here.
Another chairman mao err buddhavepic post :bowdown:
One more rant ...
Belts that are made of stiff vinyl, so by the time you have the thing buckled, a chunk of the bent has been scraped off by the buckle.
I am talking decent designer brands - they look awesome, except, you would never get it to look tha tway for very long.
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Quote from: The Buddha on July 19, 2015, 08:02:23 AM
One more rant ...
Belts that are made of stiff vinyl, so by the time you have the thing buckled, a chunk of the bent has been scraped off by the buckle.
I am talking decent designer brands - they look awesome, except, you would never get it to look tha tway for very long.
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preach on brother beavis :bowdown:
I have a belt that actually broke.
The traditional buckle should have a belt that will bend into a 1" circle without being stiff.
The cobra style buckle - where the belt doesn't loop through the buckle (the huge texas style buckle) is OK if its stiff.
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Ooooooh I hate crummy belts, I hear ya there Buddha... if I find one that I love I use it until it is BROKEN lol I hate looking for a new belt.
I have belts I bought in India in 2003 or so. The quality there after went to crap too.
I am awash in a sea of crappy crappy crappy products ... seems like everyone wants to have 20 shieittey things rather than 2 good things.
I am going to go to some stores in a few days, and I'll try on every belt they have and if they get chewed up, I'll just leave em on the shelf. I think we need to vote with our $$$, and these stores will soon learn they should not stock belts that are as flexible as a shard of bamboo.
If I find one that does flex well and buckle, I'll buy it ... Cos the other idiotic belt has a crack where I bent it to fit the buckle.
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Belts. .. good quality supple leather.... or gtfo! :thumb:
Quote from: The Buddha on July 20, 2015, 11:35:59 PM
... seems like everyone wants to have 20 shieittey things rather than 2 good things.
This is so freakin' true it isn't even funny.
I love older stuff... vintage even. And I'm glad I do because almost everything old (if it hasn't been abused to heck and back) lasts a million times longer than newer stuff. I refuse to have clutter or a million things in my house. If I want to buy something I really think about how much I need it first. I wish the world didn't seem so wasteful... everything is cheap and disposable so we keep having to go out and spend more cash money.
I love vintage stuff. However a mistake a lot of people make is the fact that they mistake a survivor from way back when, with a new item off the shelf.
I cant explain, but there are duds in every generation.
Its like this - You see a late 80's Honda accord ... you assume a accord will last forever. But 98-02 accords with automatic transmissions - well the trannies die.
Having said that, there is a difference between stuff that is made cheap to look shiny and pretty only to self destruct 2 weeks after the warranty runs out vs stuff that was just made with the technology of the day, that may or may not have an ability to survive.
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:dunno_black:I ran a cheap China bike Lifan gy200 dual sport.....beat the piss out of it and it took it. The Walmart shocks would freeze up in the cold but the motor ran. It was made in the same China factory Suzuki motors are built in.
I hate those belts >:(
I hate they put metal handles on Chinese takeout food when they know I'm gonna put it in a microwave they made. :technical:
Frack, they made this tablet.
I do have a USA assembled LCD TV.
I do love me some farm raised steamed shrimp from China. I hear they feed them sewage and toxic waste from scrapped computer parts.
THE METAL HANDLES ON TAKEOUT BOXES omg you are so flippin' RIGHT that bugs the sh*t outta me when I want to reheat the leftovers wtffff then I have to be wasteful and use a paper plate OR be wasteful and dirty a bowl or dish that I have to wash later. I am glad I am not alone in this struggle lol
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!
I heard the chinese make awesome shims...
*Runs like hell*
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!
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........
Quote from: Janx101 on July 22, 2015, 03:54:42 AM
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.
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Quote from: cWj on July 22, 2015, 12:24:33 PM
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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@ 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 :icon_rolleyes: 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!
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....
Quote from: cWj on July 22, 2015, 12:24:33 PM
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 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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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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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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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.
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on September 16, 2015, 07:32:30 PM
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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exhibit a : tools and knife blades.lol