Rubbish quality

[Dean Lofthouse]

This week I bought two new bearing housings for my big mower, they are oregon parts so you'd expect decent quality.

 

I noticed "Made in China" on the box (these parts are £200 each list) so I decided to inspect them.

 

One seemed a little stiff to turn, I put it down to cold grease in the housing itself, so I put the shaft in the lathe chuck and fixed the outer housing to run it for a while to warm the grease.

 

After a good few minutes the housing was so hot you couldn't touch it !!

 

Deffo bearing adjustment too tight so I stripped it down to find too much pre load had been put on the bearings so ended up having to make a 10 thou shim and build it back up.

 

To me it was obvious it was too hard to turn so oregon QC should have picked this up. If a dumb Yorkshireman can pick up and make right a quality control issue why cant oregon

 

Things are just not what they used to be nowadays

 

Just because you buy new, don't automatically think it will be spot on

[White Noise]

 

Deffo bearing adjustment too tight so I stripped it down to find too much pre load had been put on the bearings so ended up having to make a 10 thou shim and build it back up.

 

To me it was obvious it was too hard to turn so oregon QC should have picked this up. If a dumb Yorkshireman can pick up and make right a quality control issue why cant oregon

 

Things are just not what they used to be nowadays

 

Just because you buy new, don't automatically think it will be spot on

 

Aye this is all to true nowadays . Even on the landys chassis the steel was supposed to be of a higher spec yrs ago . Its now mixed with other metals which in turn make it weaker and less resistant to the tin worm ? . I would hardly call making a 10 thou shim dumb or drystone walling , plastering , building your own garage . None the less your are a still Yorkshireman