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June 14th, 2008

June 14th, 2008 . by Cary

Two things:

First, Happy Flag Day!

Second, Happy Birthday, Army!

I spent the morning putting a couple of new items together – an air compressor (did you know that Bostitch doesn’t make replacement parts for their oil-less compressors? especially the little reed valves in the cylinder head?) and a new miter saw. (the old one, the handle broke; Home Depot doesn’t sell the motor case that has the handle molded on to it, neither does Ryobi.)

We went to Sears to get the replacements – nothing like good old American made Craftsman, right?

Except for the tags on the bottom of the boxes that very clearly state “Made in China.”

Dangit!

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6 Responses to “June 14th, 2008”

  1. comment number 1 by: Samantha West

    Happy Father’s Day!

  2. comment number 2 by: cary

    Thank you, Samantha!

    Hope your weekend was relaxing!

  3. comment number 3 by: Bloviating Zeppelin

    God bless America. The finest experiment EVER to have been conducted on the entire planet.

    BZ

  4. comment number 4 by: cary - Botan Ichihara

    Amen, BZ!

    And so far, still working in spite of the left…

  5. comment number 5 by: Prying1

    Hey Cary,

    Don’t worry too much about the made in China tags. I remember years ago everyone was claiming Japan was going to take over America because they were buying property left and right.

    Where are they now?

    China doesn’t stand a chance until they change their government. They will end up falling just as Russia did.

  6. comment number 6 by: cary

    Paul! Good to see you!

    I remember that whole Japanese buying spree, too – and you are right.

    With China’s suppressive government, it will be a long time before they have their act together.