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Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed
You said the magic word. If it’s not an egg roll I try not to buy it. Plenty of alternative more friendly sources for products now. I like the people and the food but I try not to support the government owned “businesses”. “If you can’t buy American at least buy from a friend” is my new mantra. And that’s not political, that’s sanity.
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As mentioned, parts of most everything comes from China these days.
I've owned stuff from China in the past (loved Harbor Freight so people who have shopped there know what I mean). Stuff is not necessarily bad, the problem is the quality control. Or no quality control. Case in point: about 15 years ago I bought a Wen 10" drill press from Amazon. The price was right: about $100 less than an equivalent-sized press from better-known American manufacturers. Got it, set it up, and it worked flawlessly. In fact it was one of the few tools I sold when I moved here that I got more on the resale than I paid for the tool. But the base had four bolt-holes on the mounting apparatus that didn't line up with the rest of the tool. Before I could mount it permanently I had to bore out those holes so that they lined up. As I said, worked flawlessly, but with quality control that we might be used to, that press if built here would never have made it out the door.