re: Any Indian (slurpee not teepee) products that aren't complete garbage?hydraulic press gifs

My personal favorite is them adding an "IE" on the end of alloy specs for projects. It stands for Indian Equivalent, for example A36-IE as a material of construction for large carbon steel vessels.

A shorthand way to spot check quotes for such things is to reduce the bottom line amount to dollars per pound. We recently had prices come in for a decent size project in the $5 to $7/lb range which is entirely what we expected. Except one shop that bid Indian supplied at the unbelievably low price of $0.85/lb.

That is to say - materials purchased, project fabricated, loaded on a ship and sailed to the US for less than one fifth of the next lowest bid. Indian built equipment is for clowns, plain and simple.