rex desilets posted:With regard to quality control: Scott Mann of 3rd Rail makes regular trips to South Korea to inspect each item of a model run. If this relatively small outfit can do so, why can't Lionel or MTH do the same?
I know that Mike Wolf spends a lot of time observing and inspecting in China the manufacturing process. You cannot tell if the raw zinc is contaminated by looking at it. It only take a small amount of lead to destroy a finished product over time.
Scott Smith