[TheForge] Re: Vise grip moving

[Mike Spencer]

> The parent company of Vise Grip is shutting down the plant in
> DeWitt, NE and moving it to (Drum Roll!) China.

Ack!  Some of my numerous Vice-Grips(tm) are ca. 40 years old and show
no sign deterioration. [1] My Chinese-made $7 VGSOs
(vice-grip-shaped-objects) work but are unsatisfactory.  My $3.50
VGSOs (only 2) had to be taken completely apart -- boring out the
rivets -- and reassembled with some hot-tweaking to work at all.

FWIW, the Canadian-made Matterhorn boots I like were variously
rebranded and eventually production was moved to China.  Small and
hard to define decline in quality but they remain satisfactory overall.


- Mike

[1] Excluding the pair that I forgot and left clamped to the hand brake
    cable under a sports car.  Two years later, I saw the car again
    and recovered the Vice-Grips.  A little rusty and ugly but they
    still work.

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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