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We'll have some budget mills in soon - they won't be as cheap as the other firm.

 

 

There will only be a 36" Alaskan style option at £120-00+vat

 

 

And a 36" 'kit option' at £160-00+vat which will include a basic winch kit and oiler kit.

 

 

 

 

These will be in around the 27th May onwards.

 

 

 

 

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A long time ago, I bought a shipment of intercoolers direct from a factory in China. I asked the supplier how it was progressing, and to prove that he was on the case he sent me a picture of them being made. There was a Chinese woman sat on a bucket on the floor welding aluminium with no protection whatsoever, bare feet in flip flops, no fume extraction, etc... She was a very fine TIG welder, the finished product was great, but it didnt make me feel very good about the whole deal. Needless to say I didnt buy any more.

 

I am not preaching to anyone, we all do as we wish, but bear in mind that there is sometimes another side to a cheap product from China. A little research into manufacturing in China will show you lots of worrying things which may or may not sit good with you. In this case, I am sure that the product will do the job just fine for occasional milling, but there are other options which are made in Europe and/or USA which sit a little better with me.

 

As I get older, I find stuff like this more and more important and I try and avoid buying the chinese stuff as much as possible. It annoys me because some things are now only made in China. We buy a lot of wheels and tyres for our trailers and log arches and you can only get a lot of them from China. I dont imagine that a Chinese rubber/tyre factory is a great place to work at/live next to.

 

Worth thinking about ?

 

 

 

 

It's a good point to make - in the case of our budget mills we have visited the factory ourselves and also have a quality control agent in China who has visited the factory.

 

 

Conditions seem ok as far as China is concerned - we didn't see anything that we would say is unacceptable (similar to that you have described above).

 

 

But even visiting the factory doesn't tell you much and what goes on behind closed doors is another matter... But I suppose better than nothing.

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