Provent / catchcan fitment kits.

[Tim]

You can send a design to China and have it made there for cheaper than the raw materials here. Its getting difficult to remain competitive thats for sure.

[jazd]

**** China. Get them made locally. I'd rather buy something that costs $25 more, if i know it was made here.

For something simple like this we can't compete. Australia needs to focus on more technical and innovative products that the Chinese can't easily manufacture or copy.

[Transporter]

**** China. Get them made locally. I'd rather buy something that costs $25 more, if i know it was made here.


People buying **** out of china is wrecking this country. I work in manufacturing and i've been watching it happen for a fair while now.

I try to avoid products made in china wherever I can. They just create more polution and deplete our resources. People who wants bargain all the time make me sick.

[Greg Roles]

**** China. Get them made locally. I'd rather buy something that costs $25 more, if i know it was made here.


People buying **** out of china is wrecking this country. I work in manufacturing and i've been watching it happen for a fair while now.

I agree Preeny, but explain to me what exactly you can still buy that doesn't include at least some Asian production? A lot of China in your caddy, just quietly...

[gldgti]

wow, this is way off topic.

Yes, there's a lot of stuff made in china but sometimes you do have a choice, and wherever you get that choice you need to think carefully.

There are australian fab places out there that will do this kind of work for good value - thats for certain.

[gldgti]

For something simple like this we can't compete. Australia needs to focus on more technical and innovative products that the Chinese can't easily manufacture or copy.

that doesnt exist - they can, and do, make anything and everything these days - and the rest of the world pays them to do it for us - from whole cars to silicone chips and cheap plastic toys. theres not a thing in everyday life you can name that china can't manufacture that we can - especially because most of our good manufacturing companies have died out, a long time ago, and their knowledge is gone aswell. Infact, they could probably even manufacture it better, but the world market has driven their economy to produce large quantities of mediocre goods, and so they do - and we all buy it, because like transporter says - everyone wants a bargain (but noone can spot quality or good value).

and where are we left? with a small sector of companies manufacturing goods for our own markets, a couple of clever design companies and the remaining 90% of industry selling natural resources to china so they can value add it and sell it back to us, and everyone else.

[/rant off]

[Preen59]

Woah, sorry to cause the **** storm. haha.

I agree Preeny, but explain to me what exactly you can still buy that doesn't include at least some Asian production? A lot of China in your caddy, just quietly...

Yes and i'm not happy about that. I didn't have a choice of purchasing a 100% German manufactured vehicle, so I have to put up with it.

[jazd]

Woah, sorry to cause the **** storm. haha.

Was it you or me?

Anyway yeah way off topic

[Transporter]

that doesnt exist - they can, and do, make anything and everything these days - and the rest of the world pays them to do it for us - from whole cars to silicone chips and cheap plastic toys. theres not a thing in everyday life you can name that china can't manufacture that we can - especially because most of our good manufacturing companies have died out, a long time ago, and their knowledge is gone aswell. Infact, they could probably even manufacture it better, but the world market has driven their economy to produce large quantities of mediocre goods, and so they do - and we all buy it, because like transporter says - everyone wants a bargain (but noone can spot quality or good value).

and where are we left? with a small sector of companies manufacturing goods for our own markets, a couple of clever design companies and the remaining 90% of industry selling natural resources to china so they can value add it and sell it back to us, and everyone else.

[/rant off]

Oh man...., don't get me started again, because I rather don't think about it and about the consequences some 10 or more years later.

[gldgti]

Oh man...., don't get me started again, because I rather don't think about it and about the consequences some 10 or more years later.

I know sorry sorry sorry. (Heh, I'm the same, this is why my wife and I want to save up, move to the countryside asap and learn how to grow food )

Anyway - maybe Greg if you have some designs for brackets, I know quite a few local places that can do lasercut and CNC folding, which surely is what you want for these?

If you want help with drawing up etc, I'll do it for the forum