After 85 years of USA Made, Craftsman hand tools now Chinese
02-25-2012, 06:10 AM
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So many people rant about "buy American", then turn around and buy their housewares, electronics and kid's shoes at Wal-Mart. Damn hypocrites.
A company has to make money. PERIOD. That is the ONLY purpose of a company. Unions be damned, they will go elsewhere if they have to.
As a consumer, I generally won't buy made-in-China hand tools, but purely from a quality point of view.
Only the old stock is USA. Such a shame...
02-25-2012, 08:40 PM
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03-17-2012, 03:56 PM
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I think their sockets are still USA made, but their wrenches are for sure chinese. I have a set of their older professional series that are of nice quality, I recently bought their professional flare wrenches and the quality is not nearly as nice, and they have in tiny print on the back of the box "made in china" yet still carry the same made in USA prices 
03-18-2012, 08:53 AM
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Went to sears yesterday to pick up a 1/2" drive long handle ratchet before the chinese stuff took over on the racks.........TOO LATE!!! Every 1/2" drive was made in china! I am officially done with craftsman. So I went to Lowes and bought cobalt made in Tiawan? F@%k me!
03-18-2012, 07:05 PM
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Looks like I will not be buying Craftsman tools anymore.
Armstrong Tools is one company I will be looking at.
http://www.armstrongtools.com/locatedistributors.aspx
I try to buy only AMERICAN made products as much as I can.
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Armstrong Tools is one company I will be looking at.
http://www.armstrongtools.com/locatedistributors.aspx
I try to buy only AMERICAN made products as much as I can.
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03-18-2012, 11:58 PM
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Electronics you really don't have much of a choice on. We don't make very many semiconductors here in the US anymore.
FWIW, I broke my craftsman breaker bar (I didn't think I was that strong but I torqued it real good and sheared it off). Took it back, got another one, it still has "made in USA" stamped on it.
