Country Of Origin: Buying a new Electric Drill Online

[Wyatt earp]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

 

[asaratis]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Milwaukee and Sioux drills were the best American made drill motors...DECADES ago. I guess their UNION LABOR and our corporate tax structure ruined that for us.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Kind of funny the laser temperature gun I bought is made in Romania I even forgot where it was? Think it was part of the USSR at one time. Didnt know US jobs were going there also.

 

[g5000]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Just curious. Which thermometer gun did you go with, and why?

 

[Wyatt earp]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Just curious. Which thermometer gun did you go with, and why?

Not my money ,Went with the Fluke. $99 (on sale)bucks and could read up to 800F. I always had great luck with my mulitimeter flukes in the past I could always trust them to be accurate and they dont break. get stolen yes....

 

[nitroz]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Milwaukee and Sioux drills were the best American made drill motors...DECADES ago. I guess their UNION LABOR and our corporate tax structure ruined that for us.

Dunno, profits are up and wages are down.

Makita would have to go through the same if they wanted to build in the USA. Just goes to show that they aren't as concerned with posting the biggest profits and selling out to stock exchanges.

 

[B. Kidd]

Black and Decker has been making their shit in the Philipines for years.

 

[Wyatt earp]

It is werid now how do you buy American? when nothing you want is made here?

 

[Wyatt earp]

I still want food to have a label on it~ country of Origin I sure as hell wont buy a steak from Spain. how come they dont do it?

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Bosch, genuine good stuff. Fabulous batteries

As long as the quality control is there, don't matter where its made, except that the folks Comrade Barack and the Democrats want to bring into this country en mas, to inundate and drown the country's prevailing Caucasian culture won't have anything to do when they get here. But that's alright, everything is free in this wonderful Age Of Obama. No one has to work anymore to have Obama's fourty legions of government angels coming around at your beck and call to drop succulent grapes and other choice mosels into each citizens open and waiting mouths.

Wonder how WWII woulda turned out if FDR, Stimson, or Nimitz had to requisition more Wasp Engines for the Corsairs from the Japanese instead o pickin them off the banks o the Connecticut River there in East Hartford?

Poor b@st@rd. P&W supposedly had a satellite plant in Willimantic in the 40's where they machined the Wasp engine housings on a Bullard VTL. One of the operators reached in with his chip hook, casually one day, as all the operators routinely did, to clear the aluminum chips out away from the cutting tool as the face plate was spinning and the chip hook got caught. Hamburg. A machine that can spin a 48 inch or a 54 inch diameter piece of metal while cutting away a definite portion precisely isn't going to hesitate when it encounters a little flesh and bone. Aluminum is a relatively soft metal, easy to cut at high speeds, so you can really wind the machine up, 200, 400, 600 rpm depending on the size of the chip and the diameter of the piece.

 

[shintao]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Milwaukee and Sioux drills were the best American made drill motors...DECADES ago. I guess their UNION LABOR and our corporate tax structure ruined that for us.

Nah, just unpatriotic greed and mis-management did them in.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Milwaukee and Sioux drills were the best American made drill motors...DECADES ago. I guess their UNION LABOR and our corporate tax structure ruined that for us.

Nah, just unpatriotic greed and mis-management did them in.

Nah, just Americans like you want the best possible deal on your dime that killed them. look in the mirror it was you...and dont even lie because I am to blame also..

 

[whitehall]

There is more to it than "country of origin". American companies sometimes license the product and American advertising agencies do what they do best and we are well aware that American retail stores employ millions and do very well selling the cheaply made stuff. Meanwhile government agencies tax the product from beginning to end and even when it is resold.

 

[Wyatt earp]

There is more to it than "country of origin". American companies sometimes license the product and American advertising agencies do what they do best and we are well aware that American retail stores employ millions and do very well selling the cheaply made stuff. Meanwhile government agencies tax the product from beginning to end and even when it is resold.

Nah been to the makita plant in Georgia in the 80's I know.

 

[OriginalShroom]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Just curious. Which thermometer gun did you go with, and why?

Not my money ,Went with the Fluke. $99 (on sale)bucks and could read up to 800F. I always had great luck with my mulitimeter flukes in the past I could always trust them to be accurate and they dont break. get stolen yes....

I wasn't aware that there was another professional multimeter out there beside Fluke.

 

[Vox]

Kind of funny the laser temperature gun I bought is made in Romania I even forgot where it was? Think it was part of the USSR at one time. Didnt know US jobs were going there also.

No, it was not. It is south-eastern Europe. It was eastern bloc country( meaning socialist)

 

[Intense]

I had to buy a new hand held thermometer gun and noticed now (never saw it before) a country of Orgin, so I checked out the Electrid Drills
Dewalt- China
mIlwaukee- China
Porta cable- China
and makita -USA Lmao

How come makia (a jap company) can make them in the USA and compete but a company with the name milwaukee (and I guess started in Wisconsin) had to ship the jobs to China?

Milwaukee and Sioux drills were the best American made drill motors...DECADES ago. I guess their UNION LABOR and our corporate tax structure ruined that for us.

Nah, just unpatriotic greed and mis-management did them in.

Yeah, it must be that. The Collective first, in all things, huh, Comrade. Self Preservation is so.... Unpatriotic. Self interest is unforgivable, where Big Brother is concerned.

 

[Old Rocks]

Many years ago, I bought a Skil circle saw. Paid good money for it, and it lasted, used hard for many years, until about two years ago. Went to Home Depot to get another Skil saw. $180. Not a problem, the last one had lasted me enough time it was a very good investment. Made in China. Went to Harbor Freight, bought a Chinese brand saw, looked exactly like the Skil saw at Home Depot. Except it had a head light and line laser, the Skil did not. $32. If I am going to buy a Chinese product, I will buy a Chinese brand. I really don't think that putting an American brand on a Chinese product increases the value by a factor of five.