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I don't think too many Chinese factories are scraping in their ways on their mini mills or lathes.

And also lots of old machines that likely have lost their flaking and true trueness a while ago. Still being run by old operators that understand their limitations.

You can make accurate parts on an 'inaccurate' conventional machine.

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The slightly nicer ones have scraped mating surfaces. The very cheap ones will at a minimum be surface ground very well, and have some oil scrapes.

> You can make accurate parts on an 'inaccurate' conventional machine.

To a point, sure. At some stage, it doesn't matter how much of an old timer you are and how much knowledge of your machines' limitations you have - you just need to make a part the machine cannot.

You can basically always rescrape a machine, give it new gibs, and be back to 100%.

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