this is not meant to be racist in any way, but im sure we all have had some tools that are flawed by design, and many of them seem to come from china. my friend has a theory that they do it on purpose and calls them chinese booby traps. yeah yeah, there are better tools, but sometimes you just need something cheap that works well enough, right now.
i have a tape measure with a button on it. if you let it out a ways, then press that button to retract it, your finger is 100% guaranteed to take a serious whacking or slicing when the tape runs itself in. it was designed to make sure it takes out whatever is in the area of the button.
then theres the rachet i almost took my hand off with because the mechanism broke as soon as any real force was applied, sending my hand into the block. ouch.
anybody else got any chinese booby traps worth mentioning?
actually i did buy the tape measure for a buck. for a job i was doing, there was a good chance of it falling a great distance so i didnt want to sacrifice the nice ones i own. i didnt need hyper accurate, just repeatable. it did the job...
but man, you press that button, it reels in til about 2' are left then it jumps at ya! its since been resigned to a gag for the uninitiated... the funny thing is you dont even have to trick people, they just dont believe its that vicious and have to see for themselves!
I vote for the laser level that sticks to the wall with 2 really sharp pins. THe pins are activated by a lever that looks just like a on-off switch. I don't know of anyone who has picked it up and not punctured themselves.
Yeah, my motorhome. Was traveling the interstate and decided to get a cup of coffee and the damn thing crashed because of Chinese engineers. Pure BS, just like your post.
i just started a thread about tools that will hurt you by design. see if anyone else has some of these interesting booby traps. jmanger gets it... you jump in with all this stuff about china and the trade. seemed a little agressive...
your thread is titled "ch> this is not meant to be racist in any way, but im sure we all have had
you insinuate within your original post your comments are "not meant to be racist in any way"
then you specifically target chinese people, insinuating the chinese intentionally design tools that harm humans: - citing your "friend" who "has a theory that they do it on purpose and calls them chinese booby traps" - while you state about a tool made in china which you used "it was designed to make sure it takes out whatever is in the area of the button"
now look at the two definitions of racist per
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The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
see yourself anywhere in there?
you go on to mention you paid one dollar for a tape measure you apparently expected more out of than you got (comical, given the price you paid)
you skirt the issue of why you, obviously not a chinese person in china, wound up with defective tools from china
china does not have the quality control in its manufacturing processes that the western world is accustomed to, having its first product recall ever in
2001 or 2002, for example
how do you think china is able to export tools of inferior design or lacking the quality control you may be accustomed to, so that you can wind up with the tools?
who do you think negotiated the trade deals that resulted in you getting defective chinese made tools?
market driven societies ensure if you buy inexpensive, defectively designed tools, like you did, they will become more prevalent than more expensive, less defective tools
Yoo amewican not funny! Yoo sey chinee makey bad too, I sey chinee makea tool bery good! What you think, I am bwack and decker? Me no bwack and decker, me just one chinee man making tool. You buy my tool now joe!
Oh, bullshit. Virtually every tool I've ever seen that was made in Communist China is a piece of garbage: inferior steel, shoddy workmanship, poor construction, incompetent welding, substandard finishing, sloppy tolerances on machined parts, or all of the above. In short, _far_ inferior to what comes out of any of the industrial democracies. Hell, even _Italian_ goods are better than that crap.
Taiwan is, of course, a different story. Any capitalist economy will produce better-quality merchandise than any communist economy. Period.
Oh, and by the way... Red China is a starving third-world dictatorship that happens to have nuclear weapons. It's not a superpower. There's only one of those in the world any more: the United States.
The one that comes to mind were the Pittsburgh flare nut wrenches I bought from Harbor Fright. They were so soft that they turned around the nut, and rounded nuts off. A good set from my tool supplier works nicely, and doesn't round nuts.
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