German nut vs. Chinese nutcracker
Dec 26, 2016 16:50:43 #
Dec 26, 2016 16:55:57 #
Dec 26, 2016 17:41:24 #
Had the similar problems with stuff made in Japan in the 50's/60's...
Dec 27, 2016 05:48:27 #
machia
Loc: NJ
Low carbon steel , and steel made with mixed alloys .
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
Dec 27, 2016 06:49:35 #
Dec 27, 2016 06:50:31 #
Dec 27, 2016 07:44:21 #
FrankR
Loc: NYC
machia wrote:
Low carbon steel , and steel made with mixed alloys .
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
It sure would be nice, but ain't gonna happen. The manufacturing jobs that are gone are just that; gone!
Dec 27, 2016 08:15:40 #
pipesgt wrote:
Chinese quality
Same thing happened to my lime juicer!
Dec 27, 2016 09:30:29 #
Dec 27, 2016 09:33:31 #
machia wrote:
Low carbon steel , and steel made with mixed alloys .
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
Let's get Pittsburgh up and running again !
I lived in Pittsburgh for a while starting in the mid '60s. Every monday your windowsills would be covered with ash from the mills when they started up the furnaces. The city did not own snow plows, but used salt trucks extensively. If your car rotted out you would have to buy a new one and the car manufacturers would have to buy some more steel. On a positive note, there were no mosquitoes. The air quality was too bad for them.
I only heard stories about the air quality in the '40s. People who wore white shirts to work would have to take 3 or 4 with them and change them regularly during the day. The streetlights were on round the clock.
When the steel mills closed down the city became a high-tech area, and is still that way. The mosquitoes have returned.
Dec 27, 2016 10:36:27 #
Longshadow wrote:
White metal?
Quite likely. A metallurgist would call that break a brittle fracture. Characteristic of cast metals. White metals are alloys of varying amounts of antimony, tin, lead, cadmium and bismuth. Ornaments, cheap jewelty are some of rheir uses. Load bearing tools are not.
Dec 27, 2016 10:59:01 #
I talked to some of the "old timer" workers at the John Deere foundry in Waterloo, Iowa. They said there certainly wasn't any racism back in the old days . . . by the end of the day everyone was black.
Dec 27, 2016 11:37:20 #
v1k1ngfan
Loc: Metropolitan Chicago
rightofattila wrote:
I talked to some of the "old timer" workers at the John Deere foundry in Waterloo, Iowa. They said there certainly wasn't any racism back in the old days . . . by the end of the day everyone was black.
Small world!
My grandfather returned from WWI to make Waterloo Boy tractors for Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company in Waterloo Iowa. Deere & Company bought them in 1918 and thus the John Deere Tractor Company was born. My grandfather worked at the end of the line driving the tractors onto the trains for shipment. When a tractor was not able to be driven onto a train for whatever reason it was part of his job to troubleshoot and repair the tractor so it could be loaded onto the train.
The very first John Deere model D tractor was one such tractor. My grandfather literally made the very first John Deere tractor run.
Dec 27, 2016 13:09:35 #
Dec 27, 2016 13:10:58 #
catfish252 wrote:
American nutcracker
OMG! I'm still cracking up. Good one!
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