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In China, we have a phase " one cent of money, one cent of goods". So basically you order items by grade, a,b or c. A being good, B being ok C being sh*t. When you are the one ordering merchandise, you specify what grade you want. Problems arise when you are buying stuffs off the guy who is purchasing from the merchant (worse if you are buying from the guy who's buying off the guy who's buying off the merchant), you don't know what grade it is. The reason importers have such a margin is that they will be covered if goods turn out to be crap and have to replace them. If you pay with PayPal or credit cards you will have a degree of protection but may need to jump thru hoops to get them.

The turbo would almost certainly be made in China, very little manufacturing in Hong Kong now, many companies have sales offices there. Some Chinese stuff is of good quality, when it is it's not uber cheap, there is also a lot of c*** as well, can be hard to know what quality you are buying unless you know someone else who has bought before and they are happy. The wait might be a long time, I'm not prepared to be in solitary in an 'approved' hotel for 2 weeks. Anyway, I have a company just across the border in GuangZhou I do go for work, it's just I have good friends there so it's a bit of a home from home . My moto is whatever you are doing try and make the best of it!

Hi Just seen this thread we replaced our turbo on a Orkney DA 24 well under £1 k easy job yours could be repaired they offered us a stainless insert which would last fore ever ??? try Universal Turbos Fordingbridge good luck

With a warm and settled evening forecast On Tues, I took Rob and a friend Pete done to Barton to fish all night for sole. Conditions were perfect - good sized tide, calm, slightly overcast and warm. We settled in at 8pm for the last 2 hours of the flood as it got dark. We had some cracking worm baits.... Pete struck early with a decent 35cm sole, and I was quickly into a little Smoothound. But that was pretty much it. The slack arrived for an hour and we swung around into the ebb. With hope raised again as Pete added another 28cm sole to the bag and another smoothound. After that it was hours on end of nothing at all. We called it a night at 1am and turned in for a few hours kip at anchor. We tried for an hour at first light on the start of the flood but nothing. Steamed back to Poole and we’re tied up ready for a day at work by 7am. A lot of effort for meagre returns. I think I’ll give Southbourne a try next time.