I got a very good Nicholson 40 W @ 230 V soldering iron that said "made in USA" I recently got a nytech
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A lot of people are rebranding the Array boxes...
I haven't used their arb, but their benchtop DVM (aka Keithley 2100)
*is* junk.John
My old Metcal MX500 soldering iron is made in USA, my new one is made in China. They are made to look the same when viewed from the front, but the casing has been redesigned on the new one and I suspect that the internal circuitry would probably have been cost-reduced as well - there were quite a lot of nice parts used inside the old one. So far the only problem with the new one is there seems to be a magnet in the stand that somehow shuts off the heating when the iron is in the stand. It reheats quite fast, but not quite fast enough for me. I might remove that magnet. I think it might have been done because they offer a warranty on the tips, and we have had quite a few fail and be replaced under warranty. Perhaps they are trying to extend the tip life to cut their warranty costs - just my guess.
Chris
Get A 289, you won't go wrong! :)
I just skinned the holster off my Fluke 115 that I bought last winter at Sears on a US trip ( Sears USA has *much* better tools than Sears Canada, included the true laser distance meter that I picked up last year) and all the meter says on the back is "Designed in USA" - which I am sure means "Manufactured in China". Might not be a high end meter, but it doesn't feel flimsy and it's really very good at verifying that the wall plug is still 60.00 Hz and that a fresh battery is around 1.5 volts. It's certainly better than the 15-year-old Radio Shack multimeter that used to be my bench meter...I seem to have good luck with these things, I still have a 40 year old analog meter I was given as a kid.
Bill
Dave is right, China usually make junks and rubbish but that is for their others brands and factories and they do have quality stuff but these Chinese "business model" is different from Japanese when it comes to "brand power" and marketing, just because Fluke is Made in China doesn't mean it has gone bad as it still a Fluke US engineered designs, I have been using my US made Fluke 12 over 16 years and it is still good and prime so the end note here is Made in China label is not the question, it is the brand that is the core issue here.
Choong
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