This latch broke apart shortly after install, but that’s not what really makes is Chinese cheap.
I noticed something on the back inside of the thumb lever. Looking closer I instantly knew what they where from dabbling in fireworks a bit. Rice hauls, which are the shucked shells of rice. In fireworks mortars they are used for lots of things from being filler to helping create effects.
As for a cabinet latch I haven’t got a clue what purpose they’d serve but where obviously placed intentionally end to end in the recessed groove.
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Nice picture but can't really see what you are refering to. Maybe they were used in the casting process, or polishing?
Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Perhaps parts were made in different plants and had to be shupped so they used rice hauls as packing material? My other guess is they have some abrasive quality and are used with the parts in a tumbler to polish.
With my camera there is a macro setting for close ups. With the macro setting you position the camera a set distance away from the subject.
My camers has a wrist strap on it that can be used as a guage for that distance.
One other thing. Using a support of some kind helps. I have a tripod. No movement!
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Sorry for the pic quality quys. If it was better you could see why I don’t think any of the guess so far are right. Plus I think from being in my pocket some of them fell out. But these things where laid flat right in that tiny ringed channel end to end of each other just one piece deep laid uniformly. Monkeys would type Shakespeare’s works before these could fall in there this precisely from being abrasives or shipping.I discount being padding for shipping too because I paid retail of $1.16 for the whole latch here in the U.S. I doubt if shipped from one factory to another they’d bothered with padding.
They also use rice hulls for packaging. That's probably the source.
Not to give any credit to the shaddy quality of products from the big C. Just clarifying about the rice hulls.
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I'm betting it was used as a tumbleing media for degreasing and deburring...or polishing after plating.
That could be too. Them rice hulls are quite the do-all byproduct.~ Ted W ~
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