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<blockquote data-quote="Earl Thigpen" data-source="post: 389914" data-attributes="member: 3999"><p>The exports from China run the gamut including counterfiet electronic components. Some smart folks in Asia have been removing integrated circuits (those little black thingy's inside your computers, televisions, phones etc) from scrap assemblies, taking the markings off them, marking a different number and selling them as new parts. Of course they mark them as parts with higher value. The company I work for in my day job just discovered $350K worth of counterfiet parts we bought from a broker. We now have to screen all parts we buy from brokers to make sure the parts are what we thought we were buying. Screening adds anywhere from $5 to $25 per part to the cost and that cost is passed along to the customer who pays for it at the gas pump.</p><p></p><p>OK so here's the real danger. Lets say you're flying along at 40,000 feet and the radar in the plane has a counterfiet part in it. The part that is supposed to be in the radar will work at -40° (it's -30°). The counterfiet part doesn't work below -20° and the radar fails. Scary isn't it? And the feds aren't doing a dam thing about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earl Thigpen, post: 389914, member: 3999"] The exports from China run the gamut including counterfiet electronic components. Some smart folks in Asia have been removing integrated circuits (those little black thingy's inside your computers, televisions, phones etc) from scrap assemblies, taking the markings off them, marking a different number and selling them as new parts. Of course they mark them as parts with higher value. The company I work for in my day job just discovered $350K worth of counterfiet parts we bought from a broker. We now have to screen all parts we buy from brokers to make sure the parts are what we thought we were buying. Screening adds anywhere from $5 to $25 per part to the cost and that cost is passed along to the customer who pays for it at the gas pump. OK so here's the real danger. Lets say you're flying along at 40,000 feet and the radar in the plane has a counterfiet part in it. The part that is supposed to be in the radar will work at -40° (it's -30°). The counterfiet part doesn't work below -20° and the radar fails. Scary isn't it? And the feds aren't doing a dam thing about it. [/QUOTE]
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