Originally Posted by
Mullins223
... For example, I read recently that Andersons are just as good as the others but are cheaper because Anderson doesn't advertise as much and therefore has to sell for less....
Not to dogpile on the Anderson 2-minute hate, but...
No, they're not as good as others.
A friend got one of there lowers just for the hell of it, to try to prove me wrong about the whole Price vs Quality thing. It was not impressive.
For one, the machining is "basic" for lack of a better word. Everything is very "square". I don't know how to explain it, but if you put it side by side with a better lower, it's very clear to see. Like they got 90% of the way through machining it and called it good enough and moved on to anodizing.
But that's forgivable.
What's not forgivable is then having to file away in various places to hand-fit your LKP once the assembly starts. Multiple areas where things were extremely tight, and the BHO could not be inserted at all into it's slot until filed.
Over the last 4 or five years I've built, or helped build about 6 Spikes lowers. They get a ton of hate here for some reason, and yet I have never seen issues like this with them. I'm not saying that to plug them (although I do consider them my go-to lower for budget builds), just to bridge into the second half of the story-
The builder I was helping also had 2 Spikes lowers, and 3 PSA LKP's to put in them all. I had a Spikes lower and a Sionics LPK (and was previously needled by the builder about "don't know why you had to pay $70 for that when the PSA kits are just as good...).
NONE of the PSA LKPs worked correctly- all had issues with poor parts machining and selection (springs to long, incorrect machining, metal hanging of parts where there shouldn't be metal hanging off, etc.). The owner then spent a couple weeks getting replacements from PSA because the first replacements had the same machining issues...
The issue with having to hand fit the parts in the Anderson? Tried the same parts in the Spikes lowers, and all fit fine.
The good news is after watching my lower go together with 0 issues, I think he finally saw the light...
I'm not saying you're *guaranteed* a failure if you buy cheap- if you want to take a chance, it's still a semi-free country and it's your money (use it when YOU need it... ), I just refuse to pay another cent for something that's not done right.
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