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4:41 am
March 22, 2010
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Saw an ad for this machinery company on TV, new to me.
6:21 am
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April 19, 2010
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Gene: I looked all over their site to find a "Made in USA" note and couldn't find one? Hmmmm...
6:26 am
March 21, 2011
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I wonder if they manufacture in the U.S.
8:08 am
March 22, 2010
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Found this on the web
2:11 pm
August 14, 2010
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They send me a catalog annually, so they're not that new. I think they are similar to Grizzly, but for metalworking equipment. (Yes, it's imported, but they try to do some QC and stand behind it.)
They are a fairly active sponsor of the allmetalshaping.com forum.
7:09 pm
March 22, 2010
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I have a grizzley, mill, drill, and found it usefull for small projects
Gene Chapman
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7:37 pm
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April 19, 2010
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Please keep in mind that,as an ancient brilliant and talented country, China is fully capable of producing ANY quality of tool ordered from them. 90% of the time the low quality of their tools is the FAULT OF THE AMERICAN FIRMS WHO ORDER THEM THAT WAY.Corporations know where profits are. Profit comes from home hobbyists who will buy cheap tools. It's a compound problem fed by a combination of corporate greed and the main part of our population that is satisfied with buying crap.
2:48 am
June 9, 2010
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word.
4:19 am
March 22, 2010
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yeah they are not "new" I have a bender I am quite happy with they made thats 10 years old....
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
4:26 am
August 14, 2010
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Double word. The chinese were doing wild stuff with cast iron centurys, possibly millenia before the West.
It has always irked me that we seem to import crap that sells for 1/10th the price instead of good stuff that sells for 1/2 the price of domestically produced. I suppose it's not the importation that irks me, it's the fact that we keep buying it.
9:58 am
March 26, 2010
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triple word
I've recently bought a roll bender with 50mm shafts from them. I haven't used it in anger yet but it looks to be pretty well made.
It's interesting to note that it uses a VFD made by Siemens (which they probably have made in China) As far as I know Siemens are a "quality" German firm.
I have no problem buying Chinese ..... or German ...... or Turkish .... on a quality level as long as the quality control is there. On a political level I've none either. Every person alive on this planet deserves a fair crack at the whip. If China's way of "catching up" with us is to manufacture what short term profit driven businesses want .... so be it.
Certain types of swivel-eyed rabid right wingers always seem to bang on about there love of unregulated markets and "market forces" yet can't seem to square this with their nationalistic/ tribal jingo.
3:00 pm
March 22, 2010
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Well for the record my bender is built in the USA.. But its actually rebranded Many of there machines are manufactured here by Rusch Machine and Design
http://www.rmdbenders.com/index.html
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
3:24 pm
March 26, 2010
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How much was it Larry? what were the alternatives?
This is the one I got
http://www.bifabuk.co.uk/bende.....r-rm55.php
£3500+VAT new. To my knowledge ther isn't anything "made in England" at a similar price. Me, all I'm bothered about is value for money. My induction heater and Anyang are both chinese, well made and bloody good value for money. I certainly wouldn't (and couldn't) shell out the ... what? 3, 5, 10 times more a European hammer or heater would cost.
Empire's come and go and the Chinese one is on the rise .... again. I'll deal with that.
3:52 pm
March 22, 2010
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Mine is the RDB-150-AS..... I did not really seek out that machine, I bought it because it was a good deal.... I picked it up at a auction in Idaho for $2800 with 4 pipe dies... New cost on the bare machine is in the $6000 range... ive since bought several grand worth of other tooling for it as well as the universal bend plate which makes it kind of like a hydraulic Di-Acro
http://www.bifabuk.co.uk/bende.....-plate.php
Its paid for itself many times over doing pipe handrails..
The only complaint I have is I spent big money on a 2" square tube die (I think about $1400) and it does a poor job.... Everything else is great...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
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