RANT- Fear the words: Made in China!

not only is this a very old thread , it is a very old subject that has been discussed many time before with no real answers. we all know that are county has many problems , buying stuff from china is just one of them

i say let\'s give it a rest and go back to hot rods

 

Because *****ing is fun.

 

Ya know what after many years of buying the high dollar Snap On air tools and them only lasting a few years I have found it much cheaper to buy the Harbor Freight ones as they do the samre thing and cost a whole lot less and last just about as long. The same cannot be said about the wrenches, but on the other hand I have some Matco sockets and wrenches that are worse than harbor Freight ones. i traded most of that **** in when Home Depot had a deal on their hand tools, not much need for a bunch of broken sockets and wrenches!

 

amen!!!

 

Check out where your Harbor Freight money is going.

http://www.realestatejournal.com/columnists/private/20050228-private.html

 

First thing I said to myself when the news showed the earthquake in China a while back was "Now they know what kind of cheap quality items they are selling to the world"!
Some Chinese official had said that they blamed poor quality steel and construction for some building falling down so fast.

I just wish that some public official/figure would have had the balls to say the same poor quality products that were to blame for so much damage were the same products that they sold to the rest of the world putting everyone else in danger as well. Of course someone could have said it and I didn't see it.

 

oh those two crash test videos, those were chinese designed and chinese built,and they sell those pieces of ****. the dam geo metro 3 cyl piece of **** did better then those late model chinese death traps. the reason they collapse,is instead of using high strength steel,they use low grade low strength steel throughout the car. it's made of dam tin foil. the second one made out of paper,they have them on the road all over europe

 

china does not make these tools and sends them over here for us to buy, someone over here sends the specs for these tools over to china to have them made, i bought a nice US made 48" brake used, a 52" brown boggs stomp shear used, and a 40 ton scotsmen ironworker used, all were not cheap, then i bought a HF stretcher shrinker, planishing hammer and e-wheel, i like all of them.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Davis

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, father of 5, married to the same woman for 53 years...sounds like a man to admire. Some folks go out in the world and make some **** happen for themselves, others spend their time whining and worrying about what's in the wallet of the man next to them.

 

Not really, I have a Norinco and the fit and finish on it is about like everything else they make. Works though and does what you'd expect an AK to do.

They do make some decent stuff. I bought a bow saw from HF that I keep by my grill to cut off hunks of mesquite. It works real good

 

i buy old tools and equipment......look for shops the sell old tools or check local papers/craigslist. there's a tool place a few towns over from me that have a jet 36" brake for $650 and i've seen a 24" pexto in the paper for $300.

 

Not too good on reading comprehension are you? This is the previous owner of the house, NOT the Harbor Freight guy.