Why plastic is trash for cameras

1. Tools made of plastic do not work well. In fact, their lack of
precision due to using plastic internally as well as externally makes
them a nightmare to use. Compare a cheap nearly all plastic Skill
jigsaw to a Makita with a cast metal front housing (where the strength
is needed) and all metal internals. Try cutting with both.

2. I almost bought a Fuji S2 but when I picked up the body and
applied a little pressure, the plastic actually creaked because it
partially deformed.

3. Power tool durability is a question. I have no evidence that they
are better today than years ago. I had an all metal Black and Decker
drill that lasted with normal use since the mid 1960s. Finally, the
motor burned out when I used it with sanding disks to strip auto
paint. It had also been dropped an uncountable number of times, no
cracked housing.

 

It will be interesting to see them keep trying to pretend inflation is
still under control when nearly everything rises in price because of
energy and plastic resin price increases.
-Rich

 

There are numerous other tools out there where the cases are all
plastic, and even the gears are partially plastic. They work fine.
Brands include DeWalt and Milwaukee, but there are others. Some tools
use a small amount of cast aluminum, but it is not necessary. I'm not
up for taking your word as a tool expert. I've been testing tools for
magazines for almost 20 years now, and have been using woodworking and
carpentry tools extensively for about 50 years.

What is normal use in your instance?

I've still got an old aluminum Craftsman 1/2" drill somewhere. It is
single speed, non-reversible and has not been badly handled, but I
never use it for two reasons. I consider the case design dangerous,
because of a lack of grounding, and it is too damned heavy of extensive
overhead use.

Stripping auto paint is not a particularly rough job for any kind of
drill, though there are tools that do a faster and better job. That
shouldn't be the killer.

Did you check to see that the motor was actually burned out? It may
well have only needed new brushes.

 

Because your question is posed in bad faith.

Recall, once again, you started this idiot thread with:

Just another example. This fellow dropped a lens.
It broke at the plastic point, even though the lens was
a plastic-metal combo. Polycarbonate versus aluminum, stainless
or magnesium? No contest.

You then spend many postings attemping to show the innate superiority
of "metal" over "plastic". Having failed completely, you then state it
is actually all "subjective" -- as if all your prior, and false,
quantifications were never made.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define:bad+faith&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Why should anyone answer your idiot questions? The real question is
why you bother to act like a complete retard: is thinking properly
truly difficult for you? Is honesty completely out of the question?
Don't bother, we already know the answers to these questions, Mr.
Anderson; they follow from the fact that you are a proven dingbat
shithead FUDster troll.

 

Of course you do, because you're stock-in-trade is drawing conclusions
without real information. Like that silly test.
-Rich