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John Horner
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: Do you care where your tools are manufactured? |
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Over the years I have sometimes been a Buy US only tool buyer and
sometimes a whatever is cheapest that I think will do the job buyer and
just about everything in-between. Many years ago I was ashamed that I
had bought some no name Japanese combination wrenches, but guess what,
they are still good wrenches 30+ years after they were a guilty bargain.
Presently I'm avoiding anything Made in China as much for geo-political
reasons as anything else. That and it saves me time not even having to
look at the Harbor Freight or Grizzly catalogs  .
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Roger Woehl
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Do you care where your tools are manufactured? |
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Personally, I try to buy the best quality tool regardless of its place of
manufacture. Having said that, I have compared Chinese made products (often
knock off repicas) to the same functional products manufactured in the US,
Japan, Germany, Canada, and Taiwan. I have yet to find a Chinese product
equal in craftsmanship to those in these other countries. If I was only
interested in cost, I could often have saved anywhere from 30%-50% of the
cost of the better product. I look at my shop as something that I am
equipping for the next 30+ years and I don't want to be replacing broken or
malfunctioning equipment because I tried to save a few bucks.
Roger
Roger
"John Horner" <jthorner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Over the years I have sometimes been a Buy US only tool buyer and
sometimes a whatever is cheapest that I think will do the job buyer and
just about everything in-between. Many years ago I was ashamed that I had
bought some no name Japanese combination wrenches, but guess what, they
are still good wrenches 30+ years after they were a guilty bargain.
Presently I'm avoiding anything Made in China as much for geo-political
reasons as anything else. That and it saves me time not even having to
look at the Harbor Freight or Grizzly catalogs .
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: Re: Do you care where your tools are manufactured? |
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:23:51 GMT, Brian Henderson
<BrianL.Henderson@NOSPAM.verizon.net> wrote:
| Quote: | You get a lot of American companies who think that
because they bother to open their doors in the morning, they deserve
success and the world will beat a path to their door because they're
Americans.
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I'm wondering if a slight rewording of the sentence might contain an
equal amount of truth:
"You get a lot of American (labor) who think that
because they bother to (come to work) in the morning, they deserve
success ... ".
Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
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Mark & Juanita
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: Re: Do you care where your tools are manufactured? |
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J. Clarke wrote:
| Quote: | John Horner wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
rolling eyes
Isn't that the typical behavior of a think-the-know-it-all teenager?
I've seen Hillary Clinton do it to Bush. It's a typical reaction to a
statement so far off the wall that one has trouble figuring out how to
_start_ educating the person making it.
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It's also an expression by those who view themselves and their viewpoints
as so superior to people who disagree with them that they view others as
inferior. Like know-it-all teenagers, that isn't necessarily the real
case.
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