bsaint
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Making L wrenches in Pakistan.
Theres a reason why cheap tools are cheap!
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2ndGearRubber
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That's how nearly everything you buy is made.
four.cycle
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ChevyEFI
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Cool. It looks like the socket engagement was good. May have been lighting, no but it felt like the hole(s) may be off center. What else did you want from a non-impact tool?
kelpaso1
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What monotoness work. I would go crazy after a day of that.
2ndGearRubber
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That's third world production, small batches. When you're not doing massive runs, you can't have massive factories. That's how they make flea market trinkets and low volume stuff. The lack of safety and environmental equipment is again, third world stuff. China, vietnam, cambodia, indonisia, same deal. Bare minimum to get the job done.
ste6168
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More common than most would want to think or accept. Then some people balk at my hourly rate, lol… I might start sending them this video.
Jayman17
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The lucky ones get to work the Alodine tank with no gloves. 
Jay
Jay
engineer2
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What Harbor Freight part number is that?
Yup. And get rid of that OSHA BS so we can compete. Here in America , we worry about things like handling parts strait out of the chrome plating bath without gloves. See, those people were fine. I'm sure at least hf of their babies were born without serious birth defects and the cancers they will die of were possibly due to some other cause.
Looks like they are not too bad. No heat treat but oh well. They are the right shape and the socket fits.
Yea, chemicals, unguarded industrial equipment and child labor. What could possibly go wrong.
A couple weeks ago I was watching one of those HGTV home improvement shows and some lady with long hair (not pulled back) was operating a chain saw and several times I saw her hair come dangerously close to the running chain. I puckered!
dutchgray
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This one is the third thread on this very video this week.
Watching that I was thinking 'so that's where the 1900s manufacturing equipment went when Britain stopped making stuff in the 60s'
seber
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Apparently low carbon steel considering how easily it was extruded. Heat treat? What's that?
KnurledNut
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It was cold drawn.
No, this doesnt replace hardening, but is better than nothing.
It makes each bar:
-dimensionally consistent,
-improves straightness/machinability/formability,
-reduces surface finishing,
-increases tensile/yield strength and hardness.
I LOATHE seeing these deplorable working conditions, but it doesnt mean they are stupid. (Okay, okay, the chemical workers are.
)For the short length of those wrenches, they probably work just fine without putting a cheater or hammer on them.
IMHO, a lot of these guys making something out of nothing are impressive.
They may not even know what that is. Just whatever they can get cheap that works.
No stupider than Americans. We just have OSHA to force compliance with safety regs. Some may argue they go to far in some cases, but the basic regs, like preventing people from handling parts straight out of a bath with hexavalent chromium without gives are pretty good for workers. Notice some people have PPE like those pink kitchen gloves (which should work ok) and some people had goggles. In fact, with no one to tell them they should wear that PPE, it shows they are much like us, in that some people are concerned about injuries and exposure to chemicals and some people just think "it will be fine".It was cold drawn.
No, this doesnt replace hardening, but is better than nothing.
It makes each bar:
-dimensionally consistent,
-improves straightness/machinability/formability,
-reduces surface finishing,
-increases tensile/yield strength and hardness.
I LOATHE seeing these deplorable working conditions, but it doesnt mean they are stupid. (Okay, okay, the chemical workers are.
For the short length of those wrenches, they probably work just fine without putting a cheater or hammer on them.
IMHO, a lot of these guys making something out of nothing are impressive.
Actually, far from being stupid many of those kids are going to be sent to the US and Europe to study subjects like engineering. That industrial experience probably helps quite a bit when they get into the real world and work in manufacturing settings.
Nick Danger
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Mrs Danger used to work in a chromium plant, and it was incredibly unsafe. Birds flying over the plant would die in mid-air and fall into the parking lot. Somehow, the owner always knew when an inspector was coming, and they would clean up their act for a few days. But at least where she worked, the workers at the chemical baths had respirators.
freudianfloyd
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I have watched several videos similar to this such as metal casting, and I just can't help but wonder what their aversion to workbenches are? It seems like they all work on the floor. Hurts my knees just watching some of this stuff.
four.cycle
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Mallen said:
Those young men in that video have been relegated to their fate because of their parentage. India's caste system is still very much alive and well.
It’s just the usual propaganda to make people believe that foreign countries don’t have some of the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world.
are all countries for sure but then I don’t believe I’ve ever owned any tools made in Pakistan
are all countries for sure but then I don’t believe I’ve ever owned any tools made in Pakistan
four.cycle
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^ Pakistan makes quite a few of the dental tools now in use. Pliers, in particular. They seem to do quite well at it.
The OP said no such thing.
Jayman17
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Yes there is some child labor going on here, at least the one kid in the corner gets to rub his hands into the sand. That’s kind of like a day at the beach 🏖.
The other kid at the chemical tank has discoloration of his hands up to a couple inches past his wrist.
Jay
The other kid at the chemical tank has discoloration of his hands up to a couple inches past his wrist.
Jay
minke
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I've got some very nice stainless steel hemostats from Pakistan. IIRC I bought them at a hamfest in the '80s.
four.cycle
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Yeah... in addition to small arms, Pakistan is a major player in the dental/medical tools industry.
Obviously they're doing something right.
Obviously they're doing something right.
seber
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Pakistan is also a major exporter of junk knives and bubble gum wrenches.
Ton ton
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I have read that the 3rd world countries have less back pain issues than USA does. They manage to keep their backs in fairly decent shape. Maybe they don't even know what workbenches are. Who knows? I think some diseases kill them off before they get to old age, not sure?
I have nothing against Pakistan, I just don't own any tools from there. 
I only watch videos on wifi so I just viewed it and
I have personally worked in factories that were not much more advanced that that one.
The worst job IMO is "vice guy" that has to spin the handle to open and close the vise for the end forming operation. I'd need some weed for that one.
I only watch videos on wifi so I just viewed it and
I have personally worked in factories that were not much more advanced that that one.The worst job IMO is "vice guy" that has to spin the handle to open and close the vise for the end forming operation. I'd need some weed for that one.