Chinese steel is top quality, huh

[James Curry]

Hong Kong Chinese excellent, mainland China ah well never mind , Those LNG Carriers had Brits as senior officers , Master, Chief Eng,Ch Off , 2ng eng, ETO Gas Eng. The chinese officers were 2nd Mate , 3rd Mate , 3rd eng 4th eng and a trainee Gas eng. Arrogant and dangerous is an understatement. They were there to be trained up how to operate the ships and then they were to take over leaving the Master and Chief Eng as the soul remaining Brits. This was supposed to take place over a 6 month period. then 12 months then 18 months. By the time I had 18 months in I jacked it in . They just could not be trusted. The last straw for me was when the Trainee Gas eng decided he wanted a gigarette while we were loading in Australia. Shall we say his feet did not touch the ground.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Back to the steel bit, we manufactured dredging and salvage grabs and decided to hold a stock of standard type grabs (most of our sales were customised grabs), so we ordered twenty pairs of shells (buckets in USA) with associated lever arms, we had given them steel specifications for various parts. Well they did arrive on schedule BUT we immediately sold them for scrap, it would have cost us more to bring them up to our standard than we got for scrap, the workmanship, steel specs, welding and alignment left a lot to be desired. An expensive experiment but no way was our name going on them.

[Michael Black]

Managed to find this photo of an incident I saw when I was working in McNultys yard in South Shields next door, apparently the grab had fouled under the hatch coaming and he operator Screenshot_20240920-113114_Chrome.jpgkept trying to hoist, there was so much energy stored in it when the grab came free it bent the jib back over.
Regards Michael

[vic mcclymont]

Concorde electrical cables had a plant in Long Eaton.
They bought their copper from China the number of times was not up to spec. was ublievabe.
Chinese reply skip it, we'll send you some more.
Vic

[happy daze john in oz]

Chinese steel is more like it.

Bought a pair of scissors made in China, will not even cut paper.
Bought a cooking pot made in China, only chromed steel I ever saw rust.

But no matter what you buy there will always be the 'Made in China' sticker on it even if not made there.
Most of the clothing with that title are actually made in Cambodia, Chins outsources.

[j.sabourn]

#13 looks like a very big fish hook Michael anyone suggest using it to catch Killer Whales ? A bit of bait on the curved part and who knows what one might catch. Cheers JS

[Tony Taylor]

Concorde electrical cables had a plant in Long Eaton.
They bought their copper from China the number of times was not up to spec. was ublievabe.
Chinese reply skip it, we'll send you some more.
Vic

Typical procedure Vic. Pass all the required tests needed to pass the spec. then win the order, then cut corners wherever they can, so long as it looks like the required job, I recall several years back the market was flooded with cast iron hammers, unbelieveably cheap but looked ok, the original one hit wonder. You would be lucky if you didnt lose an eye when they shattered.

[Steve Singleton]

Same happened with our plants that produced the refrigerant gas R12....it was decreed to be damaging the ozone layer...so, Did they simply scrap the plants for the newer "friendly gas"? plants (R134a for example)....
No.... Of course not...the plants were simply sold to India so they could continue to manufacture refrigerators etc charged with R12......
How does that benefit the ozone layer? All we did was make OUR refrigerators and other equipment more expensive as they needed to be modified...... Gotta love Politicians of all shades, eh?

[j.sabourn]

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#18… The Ozone layer was all the buzz a few years ago and Armageddon beckoned according to the Climate Activists. No one seems to hear much about it these days ? The big holes in it over various parts of the world seems to have been repaired ? What was used big elastoplasts ? JS

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#18… The Ozone layer was all the buzz a few years ago and Armageddon beckoned according to the Climate Activists. No one seems to hear much about it these days ? The big holes in it over various parts of the world seems to have been repaired ? What was used big elastoplasts ? JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Have heard it opens and closes at regular intervals.

But what of UK now, no more coal fired power stations, but then if the winter heating allowance has gone there will be no heating anyway.
Without coking coal no steel, even the Chinese know that.