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10-30-2014, 01:34 PM | #101 | ||
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10-30-2014, 01:35 PM | #102 |
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Thanks for the link montanafordman.
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10-30-2014, 03:59 PM | #103 | |
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Hm, what a coincidence, put one to use on a very recent outdoors/camping trip. Best in the world to use on meateater/yellowjackets ! I bought this many years ago in...Alaska ! I'll have to say that it is not HF , but built to last , as those squitos in Alaska are numerous/huge. Anyway , not used for years, until this trip. A buddy made the 'mistake' of messing with it , after I showed him how it worded. He couldn't believe that the battery(s) would work after sitting half dozen years. Yup, he put his finger against and yelped like one of the nearby coyotes.. within a millisecond. But, he's one of those who has to put finger in wound to believe ,eh |
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10-30-2014, 06:04 PM | #104 |
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BTW, my brother bought a cigarette lighter air compressor for his bike tires, and it also went up in smoke the first time he tried to use it.
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10-31-2014, 10:48 PM | #105 |
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Remember (well you OLD guys might) when we used to trash 'Cheap Jap Junk". Well, now, 40 or so years later, Japan is the epitomy of extreme quality, forcing the American slackers to beef up their own quality standards.
Ofcourse there is a bunch of years in between the junk and the quality. Just how well China will fare is any ones guess. Mean while, even though China is working hard to displace American on a number of fronts, we Americans will always continue to lean toward the cheaper 'price point'. China will continue to thrive and we will continue to bitch (and keep buying the 'junk'). |
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28RPU, have you checked the oil level? I've read that cylinders should always be stored with the cylinder fully in and the valve closed.
Try the oil level first, but as you say, it might be junk. |
11-01-2014, 12:53 PM | #108 |
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Yes Tom, I checked that and stored it upright with the ram in and valve closed.
Its junk.
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Don't bash the Chinese they can and will if asked make tools of superb quality. However if a US company goes to them and says I want 100,000 grinders landed in the US at 5 bucks a pop they will do that as well-quality won't be good and they know that as does the US importer but is prepared to accept this as enough of us will buy the junk for them to make a large profit .The only way to change things is not to buy the junk tools. The importer won't make any money and will import better tools next time . The down side is that they will be more expensive!
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Milwaukee Tools are currently made in China. Some people consider them well-made.
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The Honda Clone "Predator" engine I have mentioned. Not mentioned is that Honda probably avails the manufacturer of Predator for themselves. Wiedeke boiler tools are made now in China - and sell for about $750 for a boiler tube expander. Can be bought directly from the Chinese importer for about 1/4 the money on Ebay. About 80 percent of the high pressure steam valves purchased for the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor are from a Chinese provider. I'm sure the Chinese sources for these items factor in the fact that they don't have the "name cachet" that namebrand has. And the prices reflect this. But give them time. And marketing... Joe K
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ANd otherwise make the cheapest crap (thinking those CC pickup rubber door straps here) that the market will accept. Wouldn't it be interesting for Ford to take all their treasured/protected drawings for Model A components and go to China and get quotes - so Ford could make a re-entry into the parts market/support for historical product? Well, they're hugging the drawings close to their legal chest for some reason, aren't they? Yunno. I wouldn't mind seeing that one bit. Joe K
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And while my mind is on this subject,(what little is left of it) our plumbing fittings and tubing has to meet Federal guidelines as to the amount of lead and cadmium that is allowed in the manufacture of these items and I would guess there were a lot of these foreign items that were off the scale. |
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I might be so bold to say that sometimes things fall off the truck and find their way to market. Ebay buck knives that cost $10 dollars shipped straight from china. Change the name and sell the same product... Starbucks or starbeaks... Apple stores or epple stores... I think Henry had it right in the 20s. Higher pay to employees means they can buy the products you produce. But i'm sure there was always a few guys in the parking lot with a chevy!!! ha ha :] Last edited by Tinker; 11-03-2014 at 09:35 AM. |
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I have also brought some real junk with "Made in USA" stamped on it. |
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