[JJ_SO]

Excellent. I hope the Chinese also pay for your pension payment...   I was tempted to say something about "really well made" and the need of cyano glue. Just because cyano glue is poisonous and we better let the poison in China, there's always a little spot in the Yangtse.

 

But no, I don't say something against Chinese work. A year before I got the most expensive tripod head I own so far. I first had to adjust the knobs, to be able to use it. After coming back from Wales and being splashed by a joyful ocean wave, the axle of the quick release started to rust. I asked the dealer what to do and then asked him 4 months later again, because nothing happened. Quickly he replied very angry because he tried to make me send in the head directly to Arca "Swiss" in Nîmes (French manufacturer pretending to make "Swiss" quality...) and I said this quality issue is not the thing I intented to buy, please get it fixed. That was my last order at Monochrom, who likes to benefit, but not to service well and fast, from Germany and the last thing I got from Arca "Swiss", France. I hope, more Chinese manufacturers come up with well made mechanical stuff and I don't bother anymore, from which manufacturer they copied. Soem European manufacturers stillsee clients as there natural enemies.