Little bags of metal labels saying "Made in USA" that were to be attached
to some electric motors also had a label - It read "Made in China". I had
to laugh!
At 01:13 AM 2/22/2003 -0500, Cyc10@aol.com wrote:
>If the bearings are from one of the major suppliers, such as NTN (a Japanese
>company that manufactures bearings in the good old USA), NSK or the like than
>there should be no reluctance to use the alleged "Jap crap". They all are
>made to industry standards and will perform a well as Timken (US) or SKF
>(Sweden) bearings.
>
>Unfortunately we now live in a global world with both domestic and off shore
>companies making parts in each others countries and although the manufacturer
>may be based in a certain country this is no guarantee that the parts are
>actually made in that country.
>
>Al Sadur
>62 A MKII roadster
>60 A 1600 coupe
>70 B roadster with O/D
>
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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