Cheap Chinese tools

[fishermantwo]

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I would suggest that your cheap Aldi tools are of dubious far eastern origin

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I use grinders a lot and I am on my second Aldi one now. Theses are the best deal by far. Aldi Does have Chinese tools for sure but when our local opened I bought a set of spanners, made in Germany and of startling good quality, they travel about in my Porsche. That's what I think of the quality. My computer is from Aldi and its mostly German stuff inside.

 

[Sailfree]

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For those that buy quality tools where are the electrical components and batteries inside them made surely not the far east??

 

[Oen]

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On a boat, in rough weather, with a job to do, there is no place at all for poor tools.

It's just getting really hard to find good tools...

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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Have to say that I have won more than I have lost when it comes to cheap tools. Many boat owners are shall we say 'economically restricted' and cannot warrant a big pay out to do one particular job.

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While I do not disagree at all with this statement I do disagree. I am hardly what you would call well off or even anything more than scraping by.

I have been collecting my tools since I was around 15, I still have most of them, cleaned, oiled, ready to use. I would rather buy than hire where I can, so each year my tool kit fills a little more.

My Dad actually started this, telling me to get a decent tool kit and keep it decent, I expect for example my socket set to be passed down after I die, I am 37. I bought a cheapo socket set for the boat, 3 years ago, it is mostly gone now, but my expensive one is still complete and good, I bought it in 1986 with birthday and student job money. I don't drink much!

I have always fixed my own cars, bikes, engines etc.

I buy the best I can afford.

 

[Guest]

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Very good point. Most youngsters around here will never get a trade job or a well-paid production job. They'll all spend their 20s working in cafes and supermarkets and never be able to afford a home of their own.

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Little bit unfair ..... my eldest son stacked shelves at Waitrose ... was aksed if he wanted to do any courses ... he took the opportunity and is now a Manager in John Lewis Partnership. He has just moved into his own house at age 24.

His rise was nothing unusual ... as it is available to all who wish to partake ... OK many are shelf stackers calibre only really ... and drop out of the courses ... but those able do go up .. maybe not as quick as my lad ..

I'm sorry to say that many of the woes of younger population nowadays revolves around the mentality and expectations of them ... too many expect it to be handed to them ... unlike say my generation where we worked hard to rise up.

Job wise - the change is to more service orientated than production .. why ? We are too expensive - simple. Even when we did have the factory's we failed to meet markets demands in quite a few areas OR actually overe-produced because Unions kept workforces artificially high ...

British Steel won a contract years ago for North Sea Pipeline from a field to shore .... failed - they couldn't meet the production dates as they agreed - lack of materials. Job then defaulted to Norwegian company who hit smack on time.

Ford / British Leyland - fields of unwanted cars ..... as example ....



Yep - them were the days !! We used t live in't shoe-box, middle ot road .... every mornin - we ad to get up, lick road clean wit tongue !!

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