Bumpyroad wrote:
down home wrote:
When they started losing money is when they started playing games, such as not repairing ratchets but replacing them with Chinese of inferior quality and no lifetime guarantee. .
Back when I was first using their ratchets, they would just exchange my trade in for a new one. then they started just giving me a replacement kit so I could rebuild mine. don't remember the last part of the quote however. If they were made in china I would "assume" that they were made to sears/craftsman specs. however.
bumpy
You are 100% correct. If the New Sears tools are made in China or Indonesia or anywhere else they are made to engineering specs devised and approved by Sears. All of this China bashing is just so much jingoistic Bull. It is Sears that decides what these tools are and how they are made and what material they are made out of in fact every bit of the process would be specified in detail. But in reality since Sears does not manufacture anything they have always depended on "for hire" factories. It was those factories that went overseas so they could better compete with all the others. This made the decision for Sears.