[TheForge] Re: Taiwanese Machine Tools - and some Yak

[Mike Linn]

I wont tell you about the time I stood on one of the production lines
for one of the largest automotive battery manufacturers in the world.
I watched Sears Diehard batteries pass down the line with Pep Boys and 
Wal-Mart Batteries

Only difference was the label,the warrantee ......  and the price...


mike



At 06:52 PM 9/22/2003, you wrote:
>As to the Jet 17 inch drill press and Sears being the same -- well they
>might be.  The machine tool plants in Taiwan will make tools for anyone --
>and the same plant, same production line and same folks may have made both.
>They also copy each other very closely, (different plants making very
>similar tools.)  Tools can also be made on the mainland and look very much
>like the Taiwanese tools.  Best you can do is take a very careful look at
>one and then pay your money.


            Mike Linn
      Artist Blacksmith
          McCalla, AL
        AFC Webmaster
http://afc.abana-chapter.com

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