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Chris Green wrote:
And if anything's Chinese that should be putting us all off. Trouble
is, too much stuff is, these days.

I suspect that Makita, Milwaukee and others that are nominally UK or
US or EU made all have underlying Chinese manufacture. Where do the
components come from?

Quite. The rules about saying where something is made are more to do with
'value added' rather than true origin.

What you (may) get with a good 'brand' is better testing and quality
control.

The Chinese seem happy to make anything to the standards the market is
willing to pay for.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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