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Ducimus · 01-25-07, 01:43 PM

Reminds me of "adashi craftsmanship" i saw in Korea.

Im gonna make a wild stab here.

It's well known that China is really going aggressive in umm i guess ill use the word "modernization" for lack of a better word. Aggressivly on their way to becoming a superpower.

Korea has been aggressivly "modernizing" for years now. The term that we liked to use was "their trying to become a First world nation in one generation". In their determination to move their nation forward, they miss minor details or take shortcuts.

Since i was an engineer, heres a couple examples that strike near and dear to my own former trade.

Buildings and bridges. On my first tour there they had a bridge, and a shopping mall collapse. You should have seen their news. Finger pointing everywhere, and a few blurbs about american construction. They really have no construction codes there that im aware of. The reason why their buildings fall down is because they're concrete is runny weak crap. They use pumper trucks so they wet down their 'crete to a 9 inch slump, full of twigs, and other assorted umm "aggregate" that shouldnt be there. Incase you may not know, the wetter concrete is at pour, the weaker it is during its lifetime, even though it continually cures. US codes dictate about a 3 inch slump, they pour 9's.

Another example is this.
My NCOIC and i were watching these guys drive piles for a building foundation. Such things have to be set in the ground at a certain depth with the ground compacted to a certain hardness with apporpriate course grade and such. These guys are out their drving piles in uncompacted earth, and using.. A RULER...YES A RULER to measure how much further down the pile needed to go. So out comes Adashi (korean for young man) with his ruler, measures the pile with his mighty ruler, shakes his head no, and tells the pile operater to keep going. Right after that, out comes their foreman, bawls out the guy with the ruler, kicks the dirt away near the pile and tells the guy with the ruler to measure it again. AFter that he's all nods and thumbs up.

So given that kind of.. "craftsmanship" from a rapidly industrialzing nation, the seatbelts on the fanblades strikes me as being VERY SIMILAR, and probably the tip of the iceberg.

01-25-07, 01:43 PM	#9
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Reminds me of "adashi craftsmanship" i saw in Korea. Im gonna make a wild stab here. It's well known that China is really going aggressive in umm i guess ill use the word "modernization" for lack of a better word. Aggressivly on their way to becoming a superpower. Korea has been aggressivly "modernizing" for years now. The term that we liked to use was "their trying to become a First world nation in one generation". In their determination to move their nation forward, they miss minor details or take shortcuts. Since i was an engineer, heres a couple examples that strike near and dear to my own former trade. Buildings and bridges. On my first tour there they had a bridge, and a shopping mall collapse. You should have seen their news. Finger pointing everywhere, and a few blurbs about american construction. They really have no construction codes there that im aware of. The reason why their buildings fall down is because they're concrete is runny weak crap. They use pumper trucks so they wet down their 'crete to a 9 inch slump, full of twigs, and other assorted umm "aggregate" that shouldnt be there. Incase you may not know, the wetter concrete is at pour, the weaker it is during its lifetime, even though it continually cures. US codes dictate about a 3 inch slump, they pour 9's. Another example is this. My NCOIC and i were watching these guys drive piles for a building foundation. Such things have to be set in the ground at a certain depth with the ground compacted to a certain hardness with apporpriate course grade and such. These guys are out their drving piles in uncompacted earth, and using.. A RULER...YES A RULER to measure how much further down the pile needed to go. So out comes Adashi (korean for young man) with his ruler, measures the pile with his mighty ruler, shakes his head no, and tells the pile operater to keep going. Right after that, out comes their foreman, bawls out the guy with the ruler, kicks the dirt away near the pile and tells the guy with the ruler to measure it again. AFter that he's all nods and thumbs up. So given that kind of.. "craftsmanship" from a rapidly industrialzing nation, the seatbelts on the fanblades strikes me as being VERY SIMILAR, and probably the tip of the iceberg.