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Originally Posted by ArcticFox1984
I am not trying to convince anyone of anything, I'm simply saying that china airsoft companies are changing, they have a better infrastructure for manufacturing airsoft weapons and have begun making guns with the sole intention of making an affordable product of equal ( or superior ) quality then well known Japanese makes.
If you are trying to say that China as a country isn't capable of producing a quality airsoft product then you are sorely mistaken.
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They are capable, but are the currently quality up to Japanese/Taiwan/HK manufacturing, absolutely not. As much as Chinasoft is gaining some quality, please don't spin the story as they are the same quality level as the first tier manufacturers. (And yes, I've owned a couple of TM cloned chinasoft before.)
You have to remember, China only has the labour advantage over other countries. So for capital intensive products, ie ones that require heavy investment in manufacturing machineries won't see the benefits of having cheap labour as much. You also have to compare the quality of material they use to see where they are saving money. You also have to think about how many labour hours are put into each airsoft, and I don't suspect it to be that many man-hours since assembling all the parts shouldn't take more than 3hrs. When all the above are considered, only then can you really say "Chinese airsoft are cheaper because of this".
If you hold material quality and built quality constant, I don't suspect the airsoft to be half the price of what a TM, CA or G&P would cost just because of cheap labour.
Kind of a long post, but all I'm saying is that the cheap labour doesn't reflect the price of airsoft, it's other parts they are cheaping out. Strength of springs, bushings, shimming, gearbox, gears, piston, piston head, cylinder, and motor. All these parts will likely to have some compromise to attribute to the cheaper price tag.