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Chinese 4130

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chintonmd

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Just got off the phone with Dillsburg. He said allhis 4130 tubing is Chinese. He said, "there is no steel made in the USA." Probably mostly true. But hey, ya' got Chinese tools so you may as well get Chinese material to work on... right?
Well..., no, not quite.


I thanked the man but told him maybe I'd just build a wooden airplane.


I was getting pissed so called ACS and got this email about their 4130 tubing:


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"This is the response that I got back from our purchasing dept:<?:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:p></O:p>
made in the us dfars compliant raw material from germany...<O:p></O:p>
nothing from china.
Amanda"
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German steel is just fine with me.
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</O:p><O:p>I just love saying to merchants, "I'd rather just do without than buy your cheap Chinesecrap." The sad thing is that it's too late to do anything about it. </O:p>
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