Inspect the item you are actually bringing home these days, doesn't matter where it comes from. Crap looking welds are usually crap welds. Not all the items in the same lot have the same problem, it could have been one guy on the production line. Probably 75% of a 25 years I was in the welding business was spent rewelding crappy welds on new stuff. If it has a round bead sitting on top of two pieces of metal, its not holding anything. It seems many factories put new people on the welding line that have no idea what they are doing, or they have to work so fast, they can't do it right. That disgrace isn't limited to just products from China, though they were pretty high on the list. Mexico, the USA, and Canada had their fair share of failures too, as did several other countries. Gene