Most of the crappy stuff that is coming out of the Far East is made straight from
castings, extrusions and forgings with out any machine work being done to them.
In order to make sure all the parts will fit together they have to allow really large
tolerances and the parts. They come of the press or out of the die right to the
plating operation often without even being deburred then slap them together. The
old tools like the Crescent wrenches were machined to close tolerances after
rough forming.
Quick and dirty is the name of the game today, we're seeing it in about every
phase of our lives. Problem is, the vast majority of the younger generation never
knew what it was to have quality items in their hands. Result is that they have
nothing to compare the items they are buying to.
Us old timers have seen the best and I myself experience several disappointments
each and every week. The tools are cheaper, most of the wood we find at the
lumber yard would have been fire wood years ago, the clothes are poorly made
(Levi’s) don’t fit right and fall apart before their time, the guns are made from
cheap plastic and sold for high prices (Daisy), (Glock), compare the cheap tinfoil
Toastmaster of today to the die-formed Toastmaster from the 50’s, except for a
few things everything you drink today comes in thinner and thinner plastic
bottles, garden tools and tractors had forged and cast parts like axles and frames
where today pressed tin is the norm, Years ago I put a ten dollar bill on the
counter after a doctor visit and felt like I’d been helped, today I have to leave the
deed to my house on the counter and leave feeling like I’ve been stuck in the
xxx.without a kiss. Oh lets not forget the “Protection Plan”, when I was a kid you
bought a tool and it was guaranteed, now you have to buy a protection plan
because you just know it’s “guaranteed” to break down.
But….. the business tycoons are making record profits now days,… for a while
that is, until their house of card comes crashing down.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 02/16/2013 7:58 AM.
