# Let there be Light!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-there-be-light/692067>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 1, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-there-be-light/692067 "2014-07-01T03:20:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-there-be-light/692067/21 "2014-07-02T22:52:00Z")

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> [@wguy123](#):
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> How did you go about finding machinists in China? And what gave you the idea to look to China (I’m guessing your ME friend?)?

Actually, I work with a partner producing a number of pneumatic products. He had some simple parts injection-molded in China, and so he had contacts with reliable machine shops over there (I have no idea how he found them in the first place). I asked him to have them quote the design.

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