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Paslode Nail Gun - Being Made in China !
- A Concerned Woodworker -
Well, just to let you guys know, I have been made aware of a very unfortunate piece of information. Paslode has decided to have their major internal components for the cordless nail gun group, to be manufactured and machined in China. This may not sound like much, but this amounts to 95 % of the internal workings of the gun. This will include all framers as well as trimmers. This will more than likely lead to more failures in the field, and God knows when we pay as much for these tools as we do, we expect them to work ! Oh well, another quality tool down the crapper !!! - Nehmo – Quality of a product doesn’t necessarily suffer when the manufacturing operations are moved from the US to China. The company can use same quality control procedures at the new location. But I suspect your objection to Paslode’s decision comes from protectionism rather than a concern for quality. If that’s so, then you need to find a better issue than quality. The US isn’t known for top quality anymore. Probably for legal and economic reasons, Paslode decided it was more efficient to manufacture these components in China. The other elements of the Paslode’s business, design, marketing, and the remaining manufacturing processes, still take place in the US. http://www.paslode.com/jobs/plantloc.html . That’s how the economy of manufacturing works. You have something done where it is cheapest, legally possible, or most convenient to have it done. Anyway, where did you learn about this? I welcome the news myself. Maybe because of this I’ll be able to afford one of their (currently-overpriced) guns someday. -- ********************* * Nehmo Sergheyev * ********************* |
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