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[GMCnet] $99 Macerators [message #274497] Sat, 28 March 2015 11:05 Go to next message
glwgmc is currently offline  glwgmc   United States
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Hi Rob,

"There is no way that Mexico or Mexicans will ever achieve the design, engineering, and manufacturing level of Japan. "

Isn't that about the same thing the English said about the colonies at one point........?

I have opened up a number of different brand macerators over the years and they all seem to have interchangeable parts inside. They all fail because of a crappy seal around the shaft that allows water to leak onto the mounting studs and into the motor. Those studs will eventually break and/or the motor will freeze up. The rubber impeller will eventually fail if you run them dry too long.

Jerry
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:17:51 -0500
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No way!

I'm trying to figger out how to say what I want to say without insulting Mexico and Mexicans and making a generalization but here
goes. If I do I apologize in advance.

There is no way that Mexico or Mexicans will ever achieve the design, engineering, and manufacturing level of Japan. The Japanese
are world leaders when it comes to that. They were helped to achieve that status by an American by the name of Dr. D.W. Deming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

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Rob M.
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Re: [GMCnet] $99 Macerators [message #274498 is a reply to message #274497] Sat, 28 March 2015 11:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dolph Santorine is currently offline  Dolph Santorine   United States
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Even the Jabsco part has that Achilles heel.

Of course my wife likes to remind me to remind everyone “don’t let anyone you don’t completely trust use the head in the coach”.

Macerator jam. Yeech.

When I was a kid, the “junk” was Japanese. Then Taiwan. Then Korea. Then China.

Now Vietnam? Africa next?

Chinese “junk”… my iPhone was assembled where again?

Just have a stable government, lip service to environmental issues, and a you too can make the cheap stuff that takes you to prosperity.


Dolph

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> On Mar 28, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Gerald Work wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> "There is no way that Mexico or Mexicans will ever achieve the design, engineering, and manufacturing level of Japan. "
>
> Isn't that about the same thing the English said about the colonies at one point........?
>
> I have opened up a number of different brand macerators over the years and they all seem to have interchangeable parts inside. They all fail because of a crappy seal around the shaft that allows water to leak onto the mounting studs and into the motor. Those studs will eventually break and/or the motor will freeze up. The rubber impeller will eventually fail if you run them dry too long.
>
> Jerry
> Jerry Work
> The Dovetail Joint
> Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
>
> glwork@mac.com
> http://jerrywork.com
> ==============
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:17:51 -0500
> From: "Rob Mueller"
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] $99 Macerators
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> No way!
>
> I'm trying to figger out how to say what I want to say without insulting Mexico and Mexicans and making a generalization but here
> goes. If I do I apologize in advance.
>
> There is no way that Mexico or Mexicans will ever achieve the design, engineering, and manufacturing level of Japan. The Japanese
> are world leaders when it comes to that. They were helped to achieve that status by an American by the name of Dr. D.W. Deming.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
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Re: [GMCnet] $99 Macerators [message #274504 is a reply to message #274498] Sat, 28 March 2015 13:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Dolph Santorine wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:34
Even the Jabsco part has that Achilles heel.

Of course my wife likes to remind me to remind everyone "don't let anyone you don't completely trust use the head in the coach".

Macerator jam. Yeech.

When I was a kid, the "junk" was Japanese. Then Taiwan. Then Korea. Then China.

Now Vietnam? Africa next?

Chinese "junk"... my iPhone was assembled where again
?

Just have a stable government, lip service to environmental issues, and a you too can make the cheap stuff that takes you to prosperity.


Dolph

Dolph,

Did you miss or just skip Brazil?
Industries keep trying to go to Mexico and failing at that.

Matt


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Re: [GMCnet] $99 Macerators [message #274512 is a reply to message #274498] Sat, 28 March 2015 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
USAussie is currently offline  USAussie   United States
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Dolph,

I assume you are speaking about running the macerator dry. Both the Jabsco and the SeaFlo say they can be run dry. I would say the
running dry long enough to cause the impeller to fail would be operator error not a fault of either unit.

I noted that both units are self priming which I would assume to mean it will "lift" the sewerage sludge. However, I have never seen
a macerator installation in a GMC that had to do that. Every one I have ever seen the macerator inlet was located at the same level
or lower than the black tank outlet.

As far as your iPhone goes change "assembled" to "developed."

Regards,
Rob M.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dolph Santorine

Even the Jabsco part has that Achilles heel.

Of course my wife likes to remind me to remind everyone "don't let anyone you don't completely trust use the head in the coach".

Macerator jam. Yeech.

When I was a kid, the "junk" was Japanese. Then Taiwan. Then Korea. Then China.

Now Vietnam? Africa next?

Chinese "junk". my iPhone was assembled where again?

Just have a stable government, lip service to environmental issues, and a you too can make the cheap stuff that takes you to
prosperity.


Dolph

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Re: [GMCnet] $99 Macerators [message #274513 is a reply to message #274497] Sat, 28 March 2015 15:52 Go to previous message
USAussie is currently offline  USAussie   United States
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Jerry,

Re the English - valid comment. I think that comment would make rousing dinner conversation on the Rhine Cruise in August! ;-)

Regards,
Rob M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Work

Hi Rob,

"There is no way that Mexico or Mexicans will ever achieve the design, engineering, and manufacturing level of Japan. "

Isn't that about the same thing the English said about the colonies at one point........?

I have opened up a number of different brand macerators over the years and they all seem to have interchangeable parts inside. They
all fail because of a crappy seal around the shaft that allows water to leak onto the mounting studs and into the motor. Those
studs will eventually break and/or the motor will freeze up. The rubber impeller will eventually fail if you run them dry too
long.

Jerry







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