We still have a deep admiration for the manual work carried out in certain regions of the Third World, often combining courage, will, know-how and ingenuity, all almost always finding its roots in necessity.
By browsing YouTube, you can view how to re-weld a broken crankshaft in two, how to repair a motorcycle that seemed irretrievably lost, how to repair a broken aluminum rim ou how we make truck rims by cutting steel from dismantled cargo ships...
But we can also discover how old brake pads are recovered in Pakistan before being repackaged and resold in stylish British-sounding packaging...
And there, a sort of unease sets in, not only obviously regarding the quality of the final product (which no one would really want on their vehicle in Europe), but also, and perhaps above all, regarding the conditions of work of the men and children visible in the video.
Courageous and astute workers whose “boss” of the company fully assumes working conditions, as we can see on his Facebook page…
One more reason to be wary of unknown brands sometimes offered on the Internet!
The same type of item made in Europe:
