I can remember rumours in the 1970s that two grades of electronic goods were made - one for the shops and one for warehouses like Comet. There was even a variant on the rumour that the 'shop' models were tested and the ones for Comet etc were untested, meaning that equipment bought in Comet had a higher failure rate.
Another rumour was that Comet had heated storage areas and Dixons were unheated therefore equipment bought at Comet would be more reliable.
I assume all urban myth?
You could certainly have different failure rates on identical chassis etc, by soak testing them before sale. The bathtub curve?
Flameport gives them a look-over ...
I wish Youtube had an option for "view at 1.5x speed"
Owain
It does ... Go to settings and adjust playback speed. It goes up to 2x. And it pitch corrects.
... and if you think John is slow take a look at Jack Rickards channel...
Are they made in China or is this an assumption? I thought most non-UK production came from Malaysia.
I had a faulty unit and asked for a repair. They decided to replace it. As they had no stock in the UK, judging by the time taken they must have air-freighted the replacement from Malaysia then couriered it to me. It was a problem with a screw, as has been mentioned. Good customer service though.
That's what's printed onto them
Thanks. I did not view the full 28 minutes :-)
MK is particularly good at declaring the place of origin.
I'm quite happy with the speed.
Bill
Some of the MK range I bought during the 70s seemed to have badly formed threads or screws, we thought MK stood for mostly Knackered. They were very good quality stuff before that, I've not got involved more recently, hopefully they got over that blip. I had to change some of my light switches as one could not do the screws up to clamp the wires! B4rian
I think they did have a problem where the backed-out captive screws were jammed too tight and could shear off when trying to get them to budge.
I thought the screw was made of metal that was too soft. The problem I had was purely as a result of over-tightening. I was always taught that a screw should be tight and I did not expect one to shear off when using a standard screwdriver. I thought MK would be able to extract and replace the screw (which I assume is standard) but to my surprise they replaced the product instead.
No manufacturer repairs £2 products ...
Except it was made in Malaysia, there was no stock in Basildon and they had to airfreight it in. I suppose there was a routine transfer anyway that mine could be added to at no cost.
did not expect one to shear off
Surely the cheapest option for them - the cost to them would be pence - and they would be unlikely to have someone in the office with the tools to extract a screw.
That was what I expected. And I think it's more than an office there. I considered making an attempt myself.
Scott snipped-for-privacy@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
But a modern production facility would not be able to do it and someone in the office where the mail is opened would not be able to wander around trying to find someone to fix it - just not the way things are done nowadays.
Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.
Ask the community — no account required