Tools/Toys Made in China

[trvlnmny]

With all the news about the quality of the products coming from China what should we be concerned about in our woodworking toys.

[Peter Huebner]

Pot metal and pig iron masquerading as [high quality] steel, plastics that deteriorate after a few weeks or have deteriorated already when you open the packaging (seen it, no kidding) and paint that will peel off some time between lunchtime and midnight. Pneumatic tyres that don't hold air, ditto the valves, 'bearings' that aren't ...

Ack. Just don't. -P.

[mac davis]

Why do you ask?

Which news?

mac

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[Dave]

Bitch to all the U S companies who are having their tools made in China. China is making very little tools on their own. I always read the labels first, then I decide if I want the item. The only Asian tools I half trust is Taiwan's tools.

[mac davis]

Interesting.. you might try replying to the OP once in a while, though..

mac

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[Mike Dobony]

How about Japanese? I LOVE their machinist tools.

[Peter Huebner]

I know full well I'm not the guy you directed this at Mac, but it often happens that I see replies to OPs before the OP. And occasionally I never see the OP at all (couple of times over the last month alone). The ideosyncratic way usenet propagates .... ... so long as the correct attributions are left in place, I don't care who replies to what.

cheers, -P.

[Robatoy]

Must be THIS news from CNBC:

[sweet sawdust]

favor by selling poisonous goods to us to keep prices at Wal-mart low. Maybe by getting rid of the surplus population there will be more for those who are left? More houses per capita mean lower housing cost, more of everything so prices are lower, wow what a world!

[Bradford Chaucer]

[J. Clarke]

No, if you _contract_ for quality, inspect, and hold them to the contract then you get quality. If you pay a high price and don't do your end of the QC job, you get high-priced junk.

It's not just the Chinese who work that way. When Jaguar finally implemented receiving inspection on their electrical components they ended up rejecting almost all of what the Prince of Darkness shipped them. That story is famous in automotive circles--I understand that Lucas nearly went bankrupt before they got their own quality control up to snuff.

[Brian Henderson]

Just like every other country out there. The U.S. can make excellent quality or we can make junk.