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Chinese suppliers did this to a mining company in Australia. Put fucking asbestos brakes on the ore cars (train). Cost a fortune to clean up.

fratlas 8y ago
Link to learn more?
- JudasGoat 8y ago
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asbestos-found-in-3500-rail-cars-imported-from-china/news-story/6fe40f41aa5be21e63dab806ac935f6c https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asbestos-fo...
whenchamenia 8y ago
Many cheap knockoff chinese automotive brake pads still contain it. Buy name brand on brakes, for more reasons than that. Its also good if the compound actually stops the car in time. Living near mountains I witness brake failures (usually fires!) daily, its no joke. Check your pads, change your brake fluid every 3-5 years. Its cheap and can save lives, including your own. No feeling is more heartsinking than the brake pedal going to the floor with no resistance when you need it most.
Nomentatus 8y ago
Chinese everything they make seems to be like this. The landfill now holds nearly everything I've bought from China over the decades, I now realize. After reading the excellent book "How Asia Works," I went around my place inventorying the source of my possessions recently thinking it'd be full of stuff from China. But no. True, I do have several things that are only one or two years old from China that aren't dead yet, and a number of older steel items from China that have in fact lasted ('cause you can't fake consumer steel - I always try to bend that stuff in the store. If it bends it gets bent back and goes back on the store shelf.) The exception: one ancient Neo2. The vast majority of what I own now - other than clothes - isn't Chinese and is 30 or more years old. These are all items that predate the Chinese goods invasion in fact. Quality goods. For example it turned out that all my (surviving) dishes were American Corelle, glasses French Duralex, Swedish chair, etc. etc. Yet I mostly bought Chinese goods all along. Nothing, except the Neo2 lasted, (except for all-steel items) and I bought that Neo2 used recently. The rest of what I wasted money on is Chinese landfilled junk now. I grew up admiring China (my Grandmother saw Mao in person, at a banquet she attended in the Great Hall of the People, and liked everything about China she saw except for his wife's speech at that banquet.) No more. Please, let's just drop trade with China. For so many reasons. The race to the bottom is won and done. I know, the original article was about defective American aluminum testing; and yes there are occasional problems with goods from everywhere, but China takes the cake - and its goods crowd out better, greener, more durable competition.

fratlas 8y ago

Link to learn more?

JudasGoat 8y ago
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asbestos-found-in-3500-rail-cars-imported-from-china/news-story/6fe40f41aa5be21e63dab806ac935f6c https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asbestos-fo...

whenchamenia 8y ago

Many cheap knockoff chinese automotive brake pads still contain it. Buy name brand on brakes, for more reasons than that. Its also good if the compound actually stops the car in time. Living near mountains I witness brake failures (usually fires!) daily, its no joke. Check your pads, change your brake fluid every 3-5 years. Its cheap and can save lives, including your own. No feeling is more heartsinking than the brake pedal going to the floor with no resistance when you need it most.

Nomentatus 8y ago

Chinese everything they make seems to be like this. The landfill now holds nearly everything I've bought from China over the decades, I now realize. After reading the excellent book "How Asia Works," I went around my place inventorying the source of my possessions recently thinking it'd be full of stuff from China. But no. True, I do have several things that are only one or two years old from China that aren't dead yet, and a number of older steel items from China that have in fact lasted ('cause you can't fake consumer steel - I always try to bend that stuff in the store. If it bends it gets bent back and goes back on the store shelf.) The exception: one ancient Neo2. The vast majority of what I own now - other than clothes - isn't Chinese and is 30 or more years old. These are all items that predate the Chinese goods invasion in fact. Quality goods. For example it turned out that all my (surviving) dishes were American Corelle, glasses French Duralex, Swedish chair, etc. etc. Yet I mostly bought Chinese goods all along. Nothing, except the Neo2 lasted, (except for all-steel items) and I bought that Neo2 used recently. The rest of what I wasted money on is Chinese landfilled junk now. I grew up admiring China (my Grandmother saw Mao in person, at a banquet she attended in the Great Hall of the People, and liked everything about China she saw except for his wife's speech at that banquet.) No more. Please, let's just drop trade with China. For so many reasons. The race to the bottom is won and done. I know, the original article was about defective American aluminum testing; and yes there are occasional problems with goods from everywhere, but China takes the cake - and its goods crowd out better, greener, more durable competition.