eschoendorff
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Got some measurements to back this up?
Tool Manufacturers
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Got some measurements to back this up?
Hi all, I'm new to the site I was reading this thread about tool manufacturer's, I worked for a company here in NE Ohio that produced hand tools, these tools are supplied to Sears, Ridge, Matco, SK, Klein, Snap-On, and I'm sure they have added more since I left. They were using a lot of Chinese components on their products, They were also jumping in bed with a Company in China that was offering to produce the tools and package them in their country. The one item that really upset me was they were not changing the "Made in the USA" logo on the packaging and on the tools. I guess it's buyer beware anymore. I remember when Craftsmen tools were all made in the USA. The one great thing was I was able to re-supply my tool box and supply friends and relatives with new tools. 
Snap-On's timing lights are made in Mexico, so are their jumper cables. Their YA700B floor jack has parts from Taiwan.
Most, if not all, of their hand tools are Made in USA. I'm now afraid to know where the steel comes from after reading that previous reply.
Most, if not all, of their hand tools are Made in USA. I'm now afraid to know where the steel comes from after reading that previous reply.
rsanter
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Black&Decker ownes:
Dewalt, ELU (in europe), Delta, American Standard (sinks and such), and several other companies
bob
Dewalt, ELU (in europe), Delta, American Standard (sinks and such), and several other companies
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automan
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anyone know who made DaytoN tools. I just picked up a 1/2 ratchet at a flea market. It has the finest tooth I've ever seen........even on a 1/4 ratchet. It says Chicago usa, but has no part #. I have a few Dayton odds and ends and all seem to be good.
toolmaven
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Hey, I'm new to this but Don't forget Armstrong, also part of Danaher and Williams, now part of Snap-On, but alas, now in part imported from Asia.
Another unknown is Granco (not a Grainger's brand) that makes "over the top-notch" tools for the Military and Aviation markets, as well as some specialty tools sold under other brand names.
They make the 36" pin-lock adjustable wrench that sells for about $400.
Also, think about NGK Berylco and Ampco (not the car-parts Ampco) makers of insanely expensive Beryllium-Copper and Aluminum Bronze non-sparking, non-magnetic tools.
Another safety tool line is Cementex, makers of insulated tools - anybody work on Hybrids yet? Klein of course, also does insulated, being an electrician's line.
Another unknown is Granco (not a Grainger's brand) that makes "over the top-notch" tools for the Military and Aviation markets, as well as some specialty tools sold under other brand names.
They make the 36" pin-lock adjustable wrench that sells for about $400.
Also, think about NGK Berylco and Ampco (not the car-parts Ampco) makers of insanely expensive Beryllium-Copper and Aluminum Bronze non-sparking, non-magnetic tools.
Another safety tool line is Cementex, makers of insulated tools - anybody work on Hybrids yet? Klein of course, also does insulated, being an electrician's line.
toolmaven
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I noticed some dead ends listed.
Herbrand made nice tools but has gone in the last few years. I saw a bunch of sockets & wrenches hit the surplus market in Alabama about 4 years ago. I bought some flex sockers & big metric combos to 32mm; I hope they hold up: 'taint no warranty, y'all.
Wizard, gone for far longer.
Diamond was one company with Bonney and Utica. Diamond lives on as a brand of farrier tools within the Cooper Group, Utica is Cooper's torque tool company and Bonney is just gone.
Giller, Billings, Lectrolite and Barcalo are also among the long-dead.
Plumb is a Cooper division making hammers, mostly in China these days.
Plomb (completely different) became Proto.
Pexto was fantastic, making general shop and sheet metal tools, now only makes big presses.
Miller's Falls is another USA tool company to lament the passing of!
Kraeuter (older tools are marked Newark, NJ) became S-K.
-Toolmaven
Herbrand made nice tools but has gone in the last few years. I saw a bunch of sockets & wrenches hit the surplus market in Alabama about 4 years ago. I bought some flex sockers & big metric combos to 32mm; I hope they hold up: 'taint no warranty, y'all.
Wizard, gone for far longer.
Diamond was one company with Bonney and Utica. Diamond lives on as a brand of farrier tools within the Cooper Group, Utica is Cooper's torque tool company and Bonney is just gone.
Giller, Billings, Lectrolite and Barcalo are also among the long-dead.
Plumb is a Cooper division making hammers, mostly in China these days.
Plomb (completely different) became Proto.
Pexto was fantastic, making general shop and sheet metal tools, now only makes big presses.
Miller's Falls is another USA tool company to lament the passing of!
Kraeuter (older tools are marked Newark, NJ) became S-K.
-Toolmaven
T56 Impala
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So, without starting an arguement, are Sunnex or Toppul wrenches any good? Just curious as I have seen them on the 'bay.
eschoendorff
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Sunex and Toptul are typical Taiwanese stuff. Nothing special.
Yes taiwan jap **** for sure!!
strizzy
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Sunex, NOPE! have two sets in my truck box, although super cheap and I consider a value for tools to have on hand, I would never use them over a raised-panel Craftsman.
lauver
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Kartracer55,
Western Forge is no longer a division of Emerson. WF was acquired by MW Universal (???) in 2007 and is now located in Colorado. The WF screwdriver plant in Murphy NC was shut down in 2006.
Stumbled onto this while researching tool companies for another thread. Hope it helps.
Western Forge is no longer a division of Emerson. WF was acquired by MW Universal (???) in 2007 and is now located in Colorado. The WF screwdriver plant in Murphy NC was shut down in 2006.
Stumbled onto this while researching tool companies for another thread. Hope it helps.
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creatureofthewheel
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hi yall. I'm new here, been lookin around and I love it!! ya'll are my people! tool manufacture list is great. my contributions are Heyco of Germany ,Hazet of Germany , and Hozan of Japan. can I mention a retail tool site here?
eschoendorff
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Hozan? Never heard of them yet... do tell....
a little research yields this:
http://www.hozan.co.jp/english/
oh, and welcome!
creatureofthewheel
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hozan are industrial and bicycle tool manufacture. really nice forgings.
Heyco are the sweetest stuff from ger. hozan are distributed through www.ikasinc.com and heyco is distributed through wiha and samstagsales.com. wiha have $1000 giveaway each month. $100 order gets ya entered. and people really win!!!!! i won the first time i ordered, it really helped fill my Hazet 162c Assistent with goodness
Heyco are the sweetest stuff from ger. hozan are distributed through www.ikasinc.com and heyco is distributed through wiha and samstagsales.com. wiha have $1000 giveaway each month. $100 order gets ya entered. and people really win!!!!! i won the first time i ordered, it really helped fill my Hazet 162c Assistent with goodness
creatureofthewheel
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and thanx for the warm welcome dude, cheers!!!!
Coach James
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There is an IR factory about 10 miles up the road from where I live.
Coach
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eschoendorff
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Do you know what tools do they make there?
Coach James
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According to the company website for Southern Pines:
Products Description:
Manufactures internal combustion engines parts & accessories; manufactures motor vehicle parts & accessories; manufactures relays & industrial controls; manufactures hand tools; manufactures power hand tools
The facility is pretty big, several acres big. The company description for their plant in Davidson NC lists different items being produced there.
Coach
Products Description:
Manufactures internal combustion engines parts & accessories; manufactures motor vehicle parts & accessories; manufactures relays & industrial controls; manufactures hand tools; manufactures power hand tools
The facility is pretty big, several acres big. The company description for their plant in Davidson NC lists different items being produced there.
Coach
Your statement is not 100% accurate.
eschoendorff
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Care to elaborate on that?
Sure. First off, I am pretty new on here but have been pretty upfront that I have ties to IR. That being said, I have not come on here to bash other companies or to try to sell IR product, I have tried to offer assistance on air tools where I can and correct any misinformation. By looking at his 8 post history, it would appear that grzmonkey is employed at CP and he seems more inclined to want to bash other companies (mostly IR) and hype CP products, that's fine, I believe in the end IR products speak for themselves. Regarding his statement, yes IR is incorporated in Bermuda but they still pay plenty of US taxes, the same amount as CP would pay since they are owned by Atlas Copco, a Swedish Co. Next, he said most of the IR line is made in China and then listed 4 products, of which 2 are made in PA and 1 has production split between the US and China. He also failed to mention anything about the 2135, 2115, 2141, 2190, etc. lines, becasue they are all made in PA. That being said, I can tell you that the same manufacturing and quality standards are adhered to in IR factories, regardless of the location. Hope this helps to clarify.
eschoendorff
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It does. I really hadn't paid too much attention to grzmonkey's posts, but when I see a single post that says something to the effect that someone's statement is not 100% correct, it needs some rationale or else it's just bickering.
MAD
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I found this fairly comprehensive list of automotive tool manufacturers the other day.
http://www.autotechs.info/
http://www.autotechs.info/
Hi guys,
im just a newbie here, first i like to say you guys are great.
some words of wisdom i have to offer.
1. when it comes to hand tools, especially combination open and box wrenches there is no wrench out there that feels as good as a stahlwille and for quality stahlwille tools are second to none
2. i just purchaced a blue point depth micrometer "MADE IN CHINA" right across the front of the box. i was a bit scepticle but price was right. Yet to compare it up against the mitutoyo we have at work.
3. I have bahco adjustable wrenches with the soft grip handle, 6"-12" very good. I also believe the snap on adjustable wrenches are the bahco restamped with "snap on" and 2 -3 times the price also have facom 15" and 18" also very good.
im just a newbie here, first i like to say you guys are great.
some words of wisdom i have to offer.
1. when it comes to hand tools, especially combination open and box wrenches there is no wrench out there that feels as good as a stahlwille and for quality stahlwille tools are second to none
2. i just purchaced a blue point depth micrometer "MADE IN CHINA" right across the front of the box. i was a bit scepticle but price was right. Yet to compare it up against the mitutoyo we have at work.
3. I have bahco adjustable wrenches with the soft grip handle, 6"-12" very good. I also believe the snap on adjustable wrenches are the bahco restamped with "snap on" and 2 -3 times the price also have facom 15" and 18" also very good.
lauver
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Kartracer55,
Ran across a tool brand GB (Gardner Bender, electrical trade tools) I haven't seen before. I believe their tools are made primarily in the U.S., but have an email to their customer service to verify this.
Their web site is www.gardnerbender.com if you want to investigate further.
Ran across a tool brand GB (Gardner Bender, electrical trade tools) I haven't seen before. I believe their tools are made primarily in the U.S., but have an email to their customer service to verify this.
Their web site is www.gardnerbender.com if you want to investigate further.
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SpiderGearsMan
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bermuda company ? hell , they are just trying to save their shareholders money from our neosocialist congress
I applaude them
I applaude them
Coach James
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All the Gardner Bender hand tools I have looked at were made in Taiwan or China. I bought 4 pairs of their needle nose pliers for my classroom. They are ok..not fantastic but not terrible either.
Coach
Coach
dumbandhappy
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Bostich makes now makes 95% of their nails and guns in the USA, I sell them for a living as I work for the largest Bostich distributor in the country. There could still be some China mde nails out there but they are old stock, Bostitch had too many issues with going overseas, quality control, and shipping times being the worst.
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Stanley Works tried this as well goingto Bermuda with on room office as headquarters for a mutli billion dollar company. It back fired on them, and they pulled back. Knowing several people that work for them, they say compnaies liek Home Depot and Walmart put so much pressure on them to seel cheaper they have no choice as WalMart and Depot threaten to buy more from overseas companies that dont have to pay these taxes. Its bad cycle for sure.
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American tool now goes by the name Irwin on everything, there is no American Tool anymore, all owned by Newell Rubbermaid, also on your list Marathon is all under the Irwin brand now. Marathon saw blades that is. Some blades made in USA some sourced out all over even Australia. Hanson, Speedbot and Unibit as well is sold under Irwin as well.
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dumbandhappy
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any of yall old enough to remember Blue Grass Tools ? Sold in hardware stores in the Mid South for years and years, used to be owned by a company in Lousiville Ky, called Belknap hardware, went out of business in 1985
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only thing left in Diamond is ferrer tools for using on horses,all owned by Cooper
I bought a set of Diamond pliers at TSC a couple of weeks ago. I had seen them in there around Christmas for $30+ and had noted they were made in China.
There was one set left and it was on clearance for $8.99 so I bought it. Frustrating that the package says "Made in China" on the back in tiny print, but there is nothing on the tools themselves to indicate where they came from.
They don't seem too horrible. Time will tell. They will go in the truck box with all of the other "I don't care if they get stolen" tools.
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I think the last American made Diamond product was a fence plier
btw I saw an American Tool saw blade tonight at WAlly world so I guess that Irwin/rubbermaid is still using that brand name for either Walart exclusivly or the big box stores but its not sold thru hardware stores for sure.
btw I saw an American Tool saw blade tonight at WAlly world so I guess that Irwin/rubbermaid is still using that brand name for either Walart exclusivly or the big box stores but its not sold thru hardware stores for sure.
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matco tools are mostly china import however have the big us price,
mac is Stanley and they pay other companies to build the air tools .
cornwell ?you might as well go to harbor freight !
Snap on still USA / with some import for the Price shoppers
mac is Stanley and they pay other companies to build the air tools .
cornwell ?you might as well go to harbor freight !
Snap on still USA / with some import for the Price shoppers
Flat_Head_Rat_Rod
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Channellock Ratchets and wrenches sold at Sam's Club are made by Allied from China plus just picked up a set of channellock screwdrivers made by the same company from china they are perrty good quality and are full shank style. 
Why would a good company do something likew that ? Allie also makes tools for goodyear brand sold at Pep boys
The new Kobalt stainless steel tool boxes are made is china don't Know who isthe manufacturer.
Why would a good company do something likew that ? Allie also makes tools for goodyear brand sold at Pep boys The new Kobalt stainless steel tool boxes are made is china don't Know who isthe manufacturer.