Call your seller in china and ask for customer service. They will most graciously tell you the origin of their material.
Oh, you don't speak chinese and they don't have a customer service department?
Well, in that case I will tell you where its made, China!
Do you know why the chinese billet aluminum cannot be used in any public works projects in the US? Why Pazzo, Votex, Woodcraft, CRG, Sato etc. don't use chinese billet aluminum in any of their products? After all it's only 1/3 the price of Alcoa.
Just look at the money these companies could be raking in at your expense by using chinese aluminum!
The answer is its poor quality better known by some as junk! It cannot pass the certification process for use on public works projects. Same reason none of the companies listed above will use it.
Russell, you should be very proud to know there is no chinese aluminum in any of your Marine Corps weapons.
I talk to my friends at Pazzo and found the chinese came knocking on their door trying to sell their billet aluminum. Pazzo tested the material and found it to be brittle and filled with air pockets. No thanks to the cheap aluminum.
Pazzo says while they aren't thrilled to see this cheap knockoff, they aren't really concerned. According to Pazzo, the chinese knockoffs have little effect on their business as the folks that buy chinese most likely would never buy the more expensive levers anyway. According to Pazzo even if they could sue the chinese for copy right infringments they most likely would not due to the time, cost and amount of benifits from the results.
Pazzo did say one of their customers had broken a knockoff lever but this was the only one they had heard of. Pazzo did tell me the cheap lever tolerances were not as close as theirs so fit won't be quite as good. But for the price difference, tolerances is a non issue.
So Russell's statement of "They are exactly the same" used an impropper adjective "LOOK"! "They LOOK exactly the same". In reality, they are not even close to being the same!
As I have said on many occasions, buy what you want and ride what you buy!
AND,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, arm yourself with knowledge, its your best asset when making any choice!
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