SHENYANG, China, April 29 (UPI) — Huge chunks of a Chinese high-rise’s external wall peeled off the side of the building and plummeted 15 stories to the ground below. Video Here
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Chinese drywall. Chinese deadly baby formula. Toxic toothpaste.
Chinese products may be cheaper but it doesn’t mean they’re manufactured with the same quality standards or integrity by people who take pride in what they do.
We now give Chinese our technology to manufacture not only trinkets but computers, Boeing airplanes and automobiles.
What could go wrong?
Building was designed by world-renowned architect Sum Ting Wong
Sum Ting Wong a member of the prestigious, eminent and world famous architectural firm of Wat Da Fuk and Associates!
what is that, paper??
Engineering failures happen all over, even here in the US. Just think of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge or the Cadillac Cimarron! (-:
“Damn ‘stick glue’. Never use you again!”
Cadillac Cimarron: Whut a colossal waste of cocaine at GM that wuz!
Let’s just call it:
The Facade of Communism
Now known as the Not-So-Great Wall of China.
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@Uncle Al: Don’t forget the Chevrolet Corvair.
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Vet – Corvairs are kinda cool.
The Chevy Vega – Now that wuz Chevy’s all-time rolling road apple ever!
Chinese skyscraper – now that’s a scary thought.
I wonder if this is near where Trump’s clothing line is made.
That’s nothing! They have entire buildings falling over due to poor engineering practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktM__i-8IQ
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The Tacoma Narrows bridge was an engineering marvel in its day. A suspension bridge that high and spanning that far had never been done before. Unfortunately, they didn’t consider strong winds could trigger the natural frequency of the bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec
Now, that is always a consideration in bridge construction.
These Chinese buildings are not innovative in any way, other than shoddy workmanship from the concept to the final coat of paint.
@back to the video: Ever own a Corvair? Me neither, but a friend of mine did. The horror stories he could tell…
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The Corvair had the loonies write books about it so it must have done something right.
My brother owned one.
I had to constantly rebuild the fuel pump contraption.
don’t laugh …. we’re getting the same shoddy construction here in the US due to the cheap illegal alien labor …. I don’t remember a construction project I ever inspected that didn’t have something wrong with it, but any job site that had illegals on it was total trouble…. from incorrect concrete reinforcement (if there was any!) to the infinite number of electrical code violations. Every construction site today, from houses to hi-rise offices to interstate bridges is an accident waiting to happen.
The Cadillac Cimarron was a friggin Chevy Cavalier with a Caddy nameplate. And Chevy Vegas should’ve been aborted before the first one ever was allowed on the roads in the early 70’s. I like the last of the Corvairs, the 68 and 69 Corvairs were cool cars after Chevy redesigned them. When was the last time you saw a running Chevy Vega? And don’t even get me started on Pinto’s, AMC Gremlins, Hornets and Pacers etc.
Speaking of which, has anyone heard a peep out of or seen Ralph Nader or the Green Party this election year.
@Locoblanco: My friend’s Corvair had a disturbing tendency for the front of the car to start trying to rise up off the road at speeds greater than 65 – 70 MPH. He took it back to the dealership to inquire why. The guy tells him it’s because of the car’s design – heavy engine in the rear, trunk in front. At highway speeds, oncoming air can provide too much lift in the front. Friend asks what can be done about it. The guy tells him in all seriousness that some customers have solved the problem by pouring a couple of inches of concrete into the bottom of the trunk! Swear to God!
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Vietvet, I suppose that is why Ralph Nader wrote “Unsafe At Any Speed”
I never drove my brother’s black Corvair that fast.
My brother was an artist so it was a style thing.
I did all the work on his cars.
I remember lying on the ground a lot to get under that rear engine.
It seems it was air cooled? I can’t remember.
Loco – It was air cooled – thus the funky belt arrangement for the fan.
They also had a gasoline/blower/instant heater that sounded pretty intimidating, but it gave you heat right frickin now!
The turbocharged Monza Spyders were pretty darn good cars at the time.
Thanks Rat Fink.
I just remembered tearing my index finger knuckle on the sharp edge of the oil-pan cover.
I still have the scar and it has been thirty years.
@BTTV, I bought me a Turquoise Blue 72′ Vega when I was sixteen. Learned to drive the standard stick on it. Leaked oil, overheated, lacked power. Threw some oversized tires and cool chrome wheels, added a cassette player and I was king of the world! Was forced to drop some iron cylinder sleeves (aluminum block you know, before it was cool) just to keep it running for another year. Crappiest car ever made but with the most cherished memories!
@Locoblanco: Because of the serpentine arrangement of the fan belt and the tendency of them to break or get thrown at the worst possible moments, most Corvair owners quickly learned to keep at least a couple of extra ones in their cars at all times. Otherwise the air-cooled engine would very soon be toast.
@figlio: If I remember correctly, the idea behind the Vega aluminum engine was that they were not meant to last, but because they were so cheap, you could just drop a new one in for 3 or 4 hundred bucks and be on your way (at the time you could get a rebuilt Volkswagen KD engine for $500 and they weren’t even designed to be disposable). However, once mechanic’s labor rates and the cost of a new engine went up sharply, the only option to junking the car was installing the sleeves like you did.
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Vet – I never knew anybody that thought being able to throw in a new engine after 40 or 50k miles was any kind of a great advantage.
Crosley’s short-lived cheap sheet metal engine never went anywhere either!
@VVet, Yes Sir. Actually, the aluminum alloy block was a design that would have been successful if not for the subterfuge of the assembly workers as detailed in this fascinating article by Popular Mechanics. Quite a history on that little car. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a6424/how-the-chevy-vega-almost-destroyed-gm/
@RatFink: Ah, you brought back memories! My father actually owned a Crosley pickup truck for a short time back in the late 50’s. It was a cheap little hunka junk, but we didn’t have much money, so we had to take whatever transportation we could get (I walked and rode the bus a lot as a kid). I don’t even know what the top speed was, because we didn’t dare take it on the highway. It was strictly a “local Opel”.
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@Figlio: Excellent article – thanks for linking. I remember going to a Chevrolet showroom in the early 70’s and being appalled at the lack of quality control in even the full-size cars in the showroom (paint drips on the exterior, carpeting not properly tacked down in places inside the car, etc.). I pointed out a couple of these things to the salesman, and he sheepishly admitted that in many cases they were having to send brand-new cars to the body shop to correct the factory errors. That’s when American automobile manufacturers lost me as a customer.
I had a rusted-out shitbox of a 73 Chevy Nova. In Spanish, No Va means No Go. But that damn POS kept going & going. It never went well, mind you, but it went. I laid a lot of broads in the backseat of that thing. Good times, good times….
My friends nicknamed the car Mr Shit.