chinese booby traps

Nope, as I *never* knowingly buy Chinese-made tools. They're all crap.

who says i bought any of them?

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!

randy

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.

what family can you probably thank for the trade with china that resulted in you acquiring any defective chinese made tools you have?

people have been known to throw away defective tools, since you didn't buy them, just how did you acquire the defective tools?

some may argue at least neil got some fun from the family connections, eh?

let go of your adjenda man, and lighten up.

randy

if i were any lighter i'd float

now back to why you're complaining about tools you didn't buy,,,what's that all about?

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.

dude, just call your boyfriend and make up. dont take it out on me..

randy

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...

randy

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

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. 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

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

"a bad carpenter blames his tools"

P L O N K !

effi, get a life.

randy

You really are quite a humorless pain in the butt effi.

Oh, that's right I got plonked last week.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:48:01 -0600, "effi" scribbled this interesting note:

Or put another way: "Bad money drives out good."

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

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.

Subject: Re: chinese booby traps - "a bad carpenter blames his tools" Newsgroup: alt.home.repair => Avery >

Heh.. Welcome to the club.

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.

Wrongo, klutz man, just explaining you.

When you buy *cheap* tools you usually get exactly what you pay for!!