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Originally Posted by icen
Can't agree with you more. 
Every single part, fabricated in the same machine, is different. A good example would be the computer processor industry. After years of fine tuning the fabrication process, they get maybe 80% to 90% of the chips that pass the spec and is sold as core2dual.. the remainder 10%-20% is sold as something else. Maybe as single core or as a chip that's runs at slower clock.
Either Honda redesigned the 3rd gear, that's less sensitive to the manufacture process, or they set a tighter specs for the part (lower tolerant). |
In the ball/roller bearing industry, the tolerances are so tight that instead of trying to manufacture to an ultratight tolerance, they manufacture them all together, then sort them to the different ABEC levels.