Review on Short 32Mm / 60Mm Aluminum Alloy Bike Stem For Most Bicycles - Mountain, Road, MTB, BMX, Fixie Gear, Cycling - Wake 25.4 Stem (Black) by Sam Kriegshauser

Fair warning, I used to do a bit of CNC machining.OK, so the quality of this is exactly as expected for this price point. Unfortunately, there is an error in the CNC program or one of the CNC machines has some worn items, the work piece wasn't fixtured correctly, or something else happened, because there are two nice "flying-V" cuts on both sides of the stem. The end mill clearly grazed the sides in error and it looks hilarious. I'm going to live with it, not worth the hassle to swap out.Other than that, it seems to be a somewhat solid unit overall. And solid it is, because this 60 mm version weighs as much as my old 90 mm stem (139 g with bolts). So, not much optimization has been done to reduce weight. That's fine, I wouldn't expect it to be highly optimized, FEA analyzed, etc. One thing is for sure, this is probably not going to break. I mean, not unless I huck this gravel bike over a 50 ft gap.The screws are OK quality, same quality as other low end stainless screws. Can't complain too much. However, the pockets the heads and washers are supposed to sit in are not machined properly at all. This makes some of the heads sit more proud than the others. There's still plenty of thread engagement, and nothing is too wonky, so I'm guessing clamping forces are good enough, it just looks funny. I wish the threaded holes were a bit tighter tolerance, but again, it works. The massively thick anodizing (is it actually anodized? I'm afraid to even ask at this point) kinda screws things up. You can tell it just has different fit and finish than the high end stuff.Overall, it got my handlebars where they needed to be and it probably won't break, so good enough, right?