bolt thrower
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i feel it is wrong to support china when in doing so we ruin america.
china is going to bury us and we are digging the hole.
and i, for one, am sick of it.
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i feel it is wrong to support china when in doing so we ruin america.
china is going to bury us and we are digging the hole.
and i, for one, am sick of it.
There certainly is no comparison between the name brand vise grips and the Chinese knock offs. I don't mind paying double for quality tools, but when the good quality stuff is ten or twenty times the price of Chinese tools, who can afford the good stuff?
Maybe the North American and European (and Aussie) manufacturers need to look at ways to become more competitive. Much of the retail price difference between the Chinese and non-Chinese tools happens because of the outdated wholesale and retail distribution system that we have in North America. Places like Harbor Freight and Princess Auto bring the stuff in from China in large quantities and sell it cheap. In contrast, name brand tools can pass through two or three middlemen, and each one marks up the price by 50 or 100%.
Agreed that much of the Chinese made stuff is junk. Unfortunately, top quality products often are much more expensive so we end up buying the Chinese stuff.
Two weeks ago I needed to buy a 36 mm box end/open end wrench. The made in China version was $12.95. A name brand (not sure where it was made) was $200.00. Which one would you have bought?
I'm afraid the buzz about this 'reputation' thing with China hits again.
Now you understand the answer to your original question.
If they can make / build it right for thier own use / consumption what hell chance does the rest of the world stand of receicing it fit for purpose.
And while we're on the subject... Why do almost all Chinese loaders seem to have the prefix"ZL.
Safety issues are the controversies common to Chinese products, :cool2
But there are also famous brands like XCMG, LIUGONG, HC, and Feeler, going up the market.
Japan-made products are the most common in Asia like Tadano, Sumitomo, Komatsu, Hitachi, and Kobelco among others.
Hey now - I think some of you guys are being a little too hard on the Chinese machines.
Just look at the attention to detail, for instance, on the seat fabric label from my new Chinese excavator.
So the question I always had was, why is it the simple (literally one-word, sometimes) stuff that can't get translated?
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