[TheForge] Brand Loyalty?..OT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Funny.
I still have my scubapro regulator that i bought in the 60's when 
i was spending a lot of my life underwater.
  Something foolish in the back of my head assumes that i can 
just strap that antique stuff back on my antique back, crash out 
through the surf and go diving again.
Damn delusional old pharts....pete f

Ron Childers wrote:
> I hope Scuba-Pro doesn't cheapen their diving equipment...
> 
> Ron C
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ries Niemi
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:27 PM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Brand Loyalty?
> 
> Elucidate, please.
> 
> My experience has been that in industrial tools, brand loyalty is still 
> somewhat valuable.
> For example, I have never had a problem with any of my Miller welders 
> being less than satisfactory.
> I was somewhat disappointed in my $2500 Miller Spectrum 500 Plasma 
> cutter, which I bought in 1992- I feel that Miller is not as good a 
> plasma cutter producer as they are a welding machine producer, and 
> certainly not as good as Thermal Dynamics or Hypertherm- but I would 
> have brand loyalty to either of these companies, as I trust anything 
> with either name on it to be a quality machine.
> 
> Similarly, I trust inherently Starrett precision machinist tools, or 
> Lenox blades, or Peddinghaus anything, from a hammer to a half million 
> dollar beam drilling and shear line. I trust BPR, which is an Italian 
> company that I own a set of power angle rolls from- I have toured their 
> factory, and would trust any of their products. All the Emglo 
> compressors I have ever seen were a good buy. Never seen a bad product 
> from Klein tools. Jancy, Scotchman, Ellis, and Hardinge are all 
> goodun's as well.
> Off Center Tool- Grant can be trusted to make the highest quality stuff.
> In fact, I could easily come up with a list of 50 or so industrial 
> suppliers of tooling, machines, and equipment that I can recommend 
> without reservation
> - with one caveat-
> and that is that many of them, including Starrett, have a new, low 
> priced, made in China, teaser line of products, which I would avoid.
> 
> In any purchase, particularly one involving serious simoleans, research 
> is a must- and I would not recommend blind purchasing based solely on 
> name. But there are still plenty of very upstanding companies that you 
> can trust- in the industrial field.
> 
> Consumer goods, and consumer electronics, well thats another thing 
> altogether. Although I must say I have never had a lemon from Apple 
> Computer.
> 
> ries
> 
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