{"id":902,"date":"2015-01-07T02:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T02:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/?p=902"},"modified":"2020-07-16T05:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:17:03","slug":"problems-with-china-made-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Problems with China made clones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know the exact way the factories in China are run, you will know the true causes of all problems.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrong design &#8211; the \u201cdesigners\u201d themselves do not really play airsoft so they don\u2019t know what works and what doesn\u2019t<\/li>\n<li>Stupid cloning &#8211; the \u201cdesigners\u201d often copy the wrong stuff \u2013 e.g. they copy V2 parts and have them installed into a V1 clone<\/li>\n<li>Poorly trained factory workers \u2013 you can\u2019t expect quality works out of someone who has a monthly pay of USD$100<\/li>\n<li>Problematic mindset \u2013 those who run the shows focus primarily on price, profit and sales order. Quality never gets counted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most commonly found problems on the China-clones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the same tappet plate is being used across all models and all platforms<\/li>\n<li>the same air nozzle is being used across all models and all platforms<\/li>\n<li>the same cylinder is being used across all models and all platforms<\/li>\n<li>the same rubber damaging grease is being applied across all models and all platforms<\/li>\n<li>the same damn stiff spring is being used across all models and all platforms<\/li>\n<li>due to poor quality grease, all O rings are damaged even before the guns reach the store shelf.<\/li>\n<li>due to poor air seal, the china-clones are using M120 to produce M100 power.<\/li>\n<li>due to improper use of machine tooling, openings are often of inaccurate sizes and positions<\/li>\n<li>poor quality batteries \u2013 a 8.4pack when fully charged can deliver less than 8V power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know the exact way the factories in China are run, you will know the true causes of all problems. Wrong design &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tip-general","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/airsoftpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}