Danaher Corp.
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hellooooooooo..........is the op still out there?
He's busy out buying danaher tools
.hellooooooooo..........is the op still out there?
I miss these type of threads... LMAO..
as wacky as it may seem, i am curious to hear what this guy has/had to say. all kidding aside danaher/apex/triangle have some decent tools. they also have some whored out train wrecks in the line. this could have been one of the few intersting and informative threads that come along but since the op lowered his tail and ran it is a dead end.
Don't bring SK into this. Even in its darkest pre-bankruptcy hours when SK was putting out tools that wouldn't have made the cut otherwise, those SK are better than anything Danaher / Apex has ever produced or will ever produce with their poor corporate philosophy.
vintagefan
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I have a fair amount of SK, but would not consider any SK ratchets better then the new 88 tooth armstrong ratchets, or even there flex head ratchets. As well i have armstrong ratcheting wrench sets and combination wrench sets, again, would not say SK is better.
vintagefan
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I LOVE the old gearwrench... but then Danaher, in its usual fashion, decided to try and squeeze more blood from the turnip, and take an already profitable product from Taiwan to China. There was a slight drop in quality, but it was tolerable. The wrenches still functioned the same, and the overall design was the same.
But, being Danaher, the already obscene profit they were making just wasn't enough... they had to take an already outsourced to China product, and outsource it again, to an even cheaper plant in China. The design of the wrenches was changed to a new, less functional one, presumably to account for the weaker, cheaper steel, and less reliable QC.
Out of the several Gearwrench sets that I've purchased lately (and promptly either returned or sold), not one was 100% properly functional. Either the mechanisms stuck, the wrenches self-reversed, or the spring tension was so light that they skipped teeth under load.
I really try my best to be positive, and look at the good side of things. I normally try not to get involved in negative conversations, but Danaher is just a company that's really hard for me to have any love for.
Cookannapurna
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I was really looking forward to this thread, I'm not a hater in any way.
I buy what I like and what works for me. I don't hate Danaher or some of their tools, but it is getting really hard to support them as a company.
Danaher bashing aside I was looking forward to this conversation, but it is only a conversation if the OP takes part. He may need to take some lumps, but those are the breaks when you throw something out like that.
Just look how the thread bout the guy with all the HF suff started and ended. He put out something controversial, took his lumps with grace like a man, and won a lot of respect in the end even from those that didn't agree with him.
OP please do the same.
I buy what I like and what works for me. I don't hate Danaher or some of their tools, but it is getting really hard to support them as a company.
Danaher bashing aside I was looking forward to this conversation, but it is only a conversation if the OP takes part. He may need to take some lumps, but those are the breaks when you throw something out like that.
Just look how the thread bout the guy with all the HF suff started and ended. He put out something controversial, took his lumps with grace like a man, and won a lot of respect in the end even from those that didn't agree with him.
OP please do the same.
toolmaker1
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+1 mechanicnamedjohn took a lot of **** but he is doing very well for himself now. You have to have some thick skin around here or you won't last long.
4x4gearhead
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The OP pmed me a couple weeks ago about a comment I made about the danaher group. He also used false examples of companies they own. Im not a big fan and I sure as hell wouldnt own their stock. As I opened this thread seeing it was him I knew it would be something similar. Its good to stand up for what you believe in, but you should know your facts before hand.