[AT] OT: Harbor Freight advertising funny

[Louis R Godena]

But a great deal of stuff "made in China" is manufactured by American 
companies who are over there for the well-educated cheap labor force.  Not 
to mention the 1.4 billion consumers.

Louis G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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> I'd still pay close attention to the quality. You should have seen one of 
> the toys I was assembling for my kid for Christmas. What a piece of 
> rubbish. Pathetic quality, poorly translated instructions with pictures 
> that were hand drawn. Made in China, of course. My problem with China is 
> the volume of products they are sending over here. You can't buy American 
> because its not even on store shelves anymore! Every toy my son got for 
> Christmas was made in China, including all the ones from the John Deere 
> dealership.
>
> To make this tractor related, the oversize nuts I bought to go on my 85 
> year old Titan were made in China. It just doesn't seem right to me.
>
> And yes, I own a bunch of tools made in China/Taiwan.
>
> John Hall
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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>
>> You know, while a lot of guys have been spending a lot of
>> time bad mouthing those Chinese tools (not just on this
>> list) something amazing has been quietly happening... Many
>> of those tools have been getting better and better. It is a
>> little like what happened to Japanese stuff which was all
>> crap when I was growing up but now they make some of the
>> best. Then it was Korea and Taiwan then  China. As time
>> past they all got to exporting better and better stuff. I
>> have been seeing some really nice tools that said made in
>> China this year... Quality stuff with good steel and nicely
>> finished. But in the case of China it has happened rapidly,
>> not after 3 or 4 decades.
>> Yeah, they still send out some crap, so do we... But walk
>> into a TSC and take an honest look at some of that stuff
>> that says made in China. Their knock-off Vice-grips as just
>> one example. They used to be thin, soft, crude and
>> obviously junk. Now you have to look close to tell that
>> they are not regular Vice-grips.
>>
>>
>> --
>> "farmer"
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana, USA
>> robinson at svs.net
>>
>>
>
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