well your on the computer now so might as well dig a little deeper. there is a guy on YouTube goes by the name project farm that does excellent testing and evaluation including price of all sorts of tools I would much rather know what I'm getting and get the most value for my dollar from a made in USA or from another NATO country than send what few dollars I have to commie china. the most recent tools I got were some 1/4" drive 6" Torx sockets. turns out the best quality and lowest price were whia made in Germany but now they have factory here in Minnesota. this is becoming a trend factories are being built here in USA, lets support them.
most of my life I had respect for OTC tools till about 5 years ago when I was in need of a new compression tester kit. I ordered the $80 OTC kit online thinking it would be made in USA I was wrong it had made in china sticker on it and was probably built in factory that makes the harbor freight kit. never again unless it cant be avoided I will dig a little deeper to know where my dollars are going. sometimes it cant be avoided like when buying aftermarket kits for zama carburetors the old hedge trimmer and some other gas engine power tools carb kits from zama would cost way more than the old tools would ever be worth. a new gas engine hedge trimmer is about $400 with tax I can get aftermarket kit for about the $3 if I send my money to china and there are dozens of sellers of the same product here in the states that sell the same brand made in china kit for $7. if someone were to make the kit here in USA for $10 I would gladly pay reasonably higher price to buy made in usa but it is not an option, yet.
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