I would have to agree to disagree on the term cheap chinese, mixed with crap. A very good friend of mine has a brother who now works for a large chinese aluminum extrusion company. This company uses state of the art computer controlled equipment that most companies in Canada and the U.S. can only dream about having. To say the products from China are crap, is a blanket statement. Perhaps the Harbor Freight tool is chinese, but when I looked at one last week, it was a well made bolted together piece of equipment with a standard hyd. jack used to power it. For what you pay, it is a suitable piece of equipment. I'm sure the quality of the steel is as good as U.S. or Canuck steel. I own many Craftsman and even Snap-on tools that are guaranteed for life, but are made in China. Their equipment for production is much newer than ours in most cases, as our N.A. equipment for rolling steel and producing iron are relics of the 1920's and 30's when WE were king of the hill. We rebuilt Germany and Japan after the war with modern equipment, to the future detriment of ourselves. Perhaps a simplistic evaluation, but probably quite accurate. Courtney
> At 10:38 AM 8/20/2008, Roger Sisler wrote... >>Not in China > > He said "real" press, not a CCC (Cheap Chinese Crap) one. > |
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