(12-02-2020, 10:15 PM)Professer E date Wrote:Enjoy those tools mate because those brands aren't locally made anymore and they're now fair dinkum shyte. Actually, worse than useless. Companies like "Crescent", who used to make good shifters etc now pushing stuff with the old brand names but they aren't the same... Guess where it all comes from? Supposedly Nicholson files with the quality standards of a dog log on the nature strip. Check the packets and they're all made in the PRC.Yeah, it's bullcrap isn't it.
Free trade seems to mean remove tariffs that protected local quality manufactures like Siddons, Titan, Wiltshire etc so the PRC could dump shyte, kill off manufacturing and then take over. And they have the temerity to claim Australia is dumping goods. The world is f""""""d
I've got a builder mate, for home we buy good kit, Bosch Blue, Milwaukee, AEG, Makita, etc, etc.. He put me onto Bosch Blue years ago and through a mate at Siemens I was able to buy direct from the Bosch factory which had it's own shop for all it's staff and families. But this stuff generally doesn't get cheaper, it's getting more expensive relative to the other kit because it reliable. But for work he's gone full circle, now he buys cheap Chinese rubbish, almost a new power tool kit per job, if it breaks he buys another one because he can buy 4 or 5 for the price of one name brand. He'll tell you the quality is not the same, but the price is stupidly cheap, and the big issue for him is if someone nicks his stuff he doesn't give a rats arse because it's dead set rubbish!
All my tool kit is the old stuff, most of it imperial. I've got an old Sidchrome socket set was my fathers, bought from the Repco trade outlet which use to be in Clayton. It must be at least 50 years old, not a single broken or rounded socket, the ratchet still works perfectly and not a spot of rust even the press metal case is still rust free and the powder coating mostly scratch free. Even the foam liner is the original! Compare that to a special socket adaptor I purchased last year, a special I needed to work on a small engine in a confined space, of course the only one I could find in stock was Trojan "Superior chrome molybdenum steel" it says on the packaging. Even comes in it's own little pressed tin storage case. Used it once, put in in the bottom tray of the tool chest a less than a year later case and adaptor rusted, even the foam has started to dissolve and go sticky, chrome crap I'd say!
I realise most people are going to buy this stuff for the odd job around the house and might use things once or twice and never gain, cheap is good in this case if it works, but that doesn't stop it being crap!
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