As a professional mechanic I personally will NEVER put cheap parts on my own rigs. Why you might ask? Because wasting money on cheap chinease
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is just flat out idiotic.... Most failures I see are due to customers wanting to save a few bucks on parts, then when they fail a year later they just cant seem to get a grasp on why.... well its a brand new part? why would it fail? I merely respond with well, you could have a brand new turd you just dropped off in the porcelain throne but its STILL a piece of
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. In most cases you get what you pay for but sometimes you are just paying for the name. I've always been a marlin fan, never purchased any TG parts, I've ran them just because they came on the rig i bought and guess what... Broken 3rd trip out... replaced with MC parts and I've had the SAME parts on 3 different rigs... still in great shape. I have seen a lot of TG parts fail prematurely, which is what happens when you outsource cheap labor/materials just to make some extra revenue. I don't care what company I purchase my parts from mostly, all I care about is the QUALITY of the products I'm investing my hard earned money into. I've had good luck with Marlins parts so I will continue to support them and what they stand for.
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