red cuda
Well-Known Member
all we make here now is soft drinks, so everybody can get fat
I am as disgusted as you all are. Mac has a lot of American made products still. Moat of our hard line tools are made here. Our forging plant is in Dallas and our tool boxes are made in Georgetown, Ohio. We do have many tools made in China, some made in Taiwan, and a few made in Japan. Most of the imports are soft line items (non forged) and might include things like stamped steel tools, specialty tools, plastic tools and the like and many of those are from some other company and not a Mac or Stanley owned company. Our patent laws don't stop companies from copying a American made product and importing it here. Besides, it is all a numbers game to them, profits for the stockholders and upper management. If you own a old Mac, Snap On, Craftsman or made in USA tool treat it with respect and don't abuse or misuse it because if you brake it the replacement might just be made somewhere else.
tmm
I bought a set of Snapon 3/8 drive impact wiggles about 3 years
Ago. Stamped made in USA. Forman looked at them and laughed
Shows me the old style that's smaller and rebuild able.
So now they replace instead of fix.
After about 6 months they wore and drop off the gun or extension.
I am told if they wear out no replacement. Only if broken.
What a joke
I bought a set of Snapon 3/8 drive impact wiggles about 3 years
Ago. Stamped made in USA. Forman looked at them and laughed
Shows me the old style that's smaller and rebuild able.
So now they replace instead of fix.
After about 6 months they wore and drop off the gun or extension.
I am told if they wear out no replacement. Only if broken.
What a joke
We own China just as much as they own us. Without us buying all their cheap crap they wouldn't have anyone to sell to. North America is their main purchaser. So my advice to everyone is, try as much as possible to boycott buying chinese stuff. If you look around their is a lot of stuff made in USA/ Canada. It costs more yes, but just try to think of the good you will be doing us all.
snap on used to warranty bits 10 years ago they stopped me and too guy got in fight over it paid over 400 for a set but he would exchange no questions:argue: first it was all bits warrantied then 1/4 up then none. I paid 400 for drill bit because of the warranty Irwin bits are just as good but snap on offed lifetime warranty now no warranty :finga:I have a snap-on screw gun. Made in China. 3 years
Old in professional use and going strong.
Not like my made in USimpact wiggles.
Worn out so not broken. Got warranty after 3 months
By bitching but now. Nothing.
Quality is going downhill.
Got a new rep and he swore no Snapon made in China.
Won't talk to me anymore.lol. Or look at the china stamp.
"Been selling Snapon for 20 yeArs and nothing is made in China"
What a tool(man)..
But I love my screwgun.
Also found out no warrenty on Snapon
Drill bits. But Mac does ?
Yea. When ever possible:
Buy Used.
Support your local or semi-local American folks directly by buying stuff they want to sell that you need.
F those foreign sources of cheaply made anything. F cheaply made anything, where ever it came from.
I buy plenty of used gear when ever possible. New shi# is over priced, overrated and is less valuable than its predecessor version.
I say lets all stop buying anything new period. F it.
It's mostly junk that becomes obsolete or breaks in less than 3 years anyway.
Plenty of modern cars, electronics and other new stuff ive seen lately has a multitude of failures, bugs and glitches and then simply dies a year after the warranty expires. J.U.N.K.
We have been trained to accept that all modern stuff has bugs, failures, warranty re=dos and is junk in 5 years. We are deluded into accepting junk plastic shi# and paying premium dollar all day long.
I have seen a 3000 dollar refrigerator totally fn fail in all imaginable directions after 1 year of operation and the thing is so heavy that sending it back to the factory would cost more than simply blowing it up with dynamite.
I have an Electrolux vacuum cleaner and power wand and a monster food processor from 68 that still works out-fn-standing. Wonder why that is..
"We better get used to made in China now. Before long were gonna have to speak Chinese as they own is..."
I'll speak ratatatat prior to that option and i don't mean the music version.
I wouldn't wait for China to "implode" any time soon.
They are going through what US and western Europe went through in the 1880's to 1950's but with MUCH better technology, and communication, plus the benefit of those who have gone before, and those in the western world who are all to eager to help them for a fee.
Before they implode, they get to create a relatively wealthy middle class, and feed their own ever increasing demand for material goods. Then they get to try to find a less developed country to outsource their own manufacturing to.
Prices may go up when we start competing with their domestic market, for their locally made goods.
Made in Turkmenistan???
Remember when you could find that good "made in China" stuff???
I actually did address that.
They are going through what US and western Europe went through in the 1880's to 1950's but with MUCH better technology, and communication, plus the benefit of those who have gone before, and those in the western world who are all to eager to help them for a fee.