[samplatt]

>That's 1980s China, not 2020s China.

HOOOO, boy. Are you wrong there. Major cities sure, and they're improving as a whole, but SO much of China's heavy-industrial and rural provinces are still run on and over systems that mentally invoke the <internally screaming> meme.

[Animats]

You're probably right, but this is new construction.

Guoer rewinds a lot of motors, most of which have a standard cast iron frame and field windings. She's regularly opening up old motors and finding burned-out windings. Badly burned out windings. Clearly, no motor protection circuit breakers were used.

She does use eye protection when angle grinding. She's a real artist with a angle grinder. She makes parts out of scrap sheet and tube with a angle grinder and a welder. I've seen people do worse with a whole machine shop available.

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