By: Pete Rose

Pete Rose
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 06:40:55 +0000

In reply to IanB.

And this happened right across industry. In my own field (plumbing and heating) manufacturing standards dropped considerably to allow manufacturing start ups in the old East Europe a way into the market. For example under the old British Standards a 1/2” pipe thread on a radiator valve tail would require around 10 wraps of PTFE tape to become watertight. Under the CE standard it now takes around 16 wraps, and this is because engineering tolerances are much slacker.

The CE standard is all about meeting the abilities of the least able so that they can compete in the market, because expecting them to meet the highest standards could potentially lock them out of the market.