2017-09-11, 23:51
Hi Mike, I believe that no matter where you buy them, they are nearly all made in China, Taiwan, South Korea, India or Japan?
I have bought a fair amount of stuff over the last few years off eBay and on the whole it has been pretty good.
Sometimes the hand soldering is not very good, but even I have had difficulty with even good quality Lead free solder and soldering them again with decent solder cures most of the problems. :-)
Considering the amount of consumer stuff that is actually being made in China these days, the quality is not worse than anywhere else, as long as you keep away from the very cheap stuff.
Brian.
I have bought a fair amount of stuff over the last few years off eBay and on the whole it has been pretty good.
Sometimes the hand soldering is not very good, but even I have had difficulty with even good quality Lead free solder and soldering them again with decent solder cures most of the problems. :-)
Considering the amount of consumer stuff that is actually being made in China these days, the quality is not worse than anywhere else, as long as you keep away from the very cheap stuff.
Brian.
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