![]() I jimmied up a fix by attaching the side plate to the bow with double sided carpet tape like you would attach a stick-on flipper rest, so I could continue playing with it while I'm waiting for my replacement part. The Super Glue doesn't seem to adhere very well to either the metal stud or the plastic of the side plate, I don't know which. I tried to glue in the stud that screws into the side plate with Super Glue, but that didn't hold either. The threads in the plastic are very weak, and strip out with minimal tightening force, which is what happened to me the first time I tried to attach it to the bow. The removable side plate has threads cut into the plastic for attaching it to the riser with an allen screw inserted from the other side of the riser into a threaded stud that screws into the plastic side plate. ![]() It has a removable plastic side plate for off the shelf shooting, with spacers to allow for centershot adjustment. So far, I like the way it shoots, and look forward to using it for 3D shoots soon. It's none of my business how another person chooses to spend their money.I'm in process of tuning a new Hoyt Satori recurve. If a person wants to help support intellectual theft by buying cheap Chinese clones.have at it. It's up to us as individuals to make our own personal buying decisions. I ASS-umed when perhaps I should not have. Sometimes I have purchased "quality" from an American company, thinking I was buying American made only to find a "made in China" label on it. I have never EVER regretted buying quality, sometimes even at five times the price of the cheapest on some stuff with an exception. Many times it has cost me more over the long run. However, I learned the lesson of buying cheap stuff long ago. But I do want quality - even if it does come from China. Most of my adult life, I've made every attempt to buy American or European stuff. ![]() The high performance car and motorcycle world are full of it. This kind of stuff is not isolated to the archery world. Outsource models and you will face unfair competence and will lost sales, which the low cost of overseas production wouldn't compensate.Ĭhina factories seem to be very good at reverse engineering. My advice for western companies would be: keep your crafting at home, support your national work force and the buyers would support you. Of course, if I'm wrong, the products will be knockoffs and their low quality will keep buyers away. Yes, the buyer will lack the same post-sell support, but if the tag price is low, a lot of people will risk and try. ![]() But why they would stop the production once the demand from western companies falls? They still have a good product which can sell at low prices. My guess is that in China, Taiwan and other places are now factories capable to craft high quality risers at low costs those factories spent money in the tech to produce the product, and they do provide the required batches. I known that those sneakers are produced at vastly lower prices in asian countries, which means they already have the tech to produce high quality at low cost (conditions for the workers is an entirely different matter). I bought a pair of Reebock Nano 6 and another pair of Nano 8 and a couple of Adipowers in the last three years, with slight discounts in the Black Friday (which made me pay ~92 € instead of 130 € and ~144 € instead of 180 €). But if you're making the original you will have the same marks due using exactly the same mold is cheaper than crafting a sighly modified one. * If you're cloning a product which you will rebrand diferently makes no sense to copy even the size and form of the brand insertions. * Some of the best bycicle brands get their high-end carbon chasis from Chinese manufacturers. * Samick and Win & Win have been outsourcing entry level aluminum risers from China for years now, and some people claim that the thing is now happening even with high end carbon risers. * Some brands, as PSE have been outsourcing some of their heritage traditional wood risers from China as some of their dealers concede (ask Stephen Hains).
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