pressure washers burn out quickly

Were you running it on a long extension cord, and maybe one to small to carry the load current? If so then maybe you were running it under-voltage from the long cord. That will make things burn out faster. All power tools should be run on at least a 14ga extension cord. JTT

That,s a given, yes made in china

I was trying to buy other than china lugnuts for my mag so Napa told me they have some other than China. The point is when I got to it later, On the box it made in USA or Taiwan or China. What the h*ll of new scam is that? I bet is really means china

My wife came home with a Husky 1800 psi Pressure Washer from Home Depot for $169.00. I immediately sent her back for a 100 ft 14 gauge extension cord. She has pressured cleaned over a thousand square feet of outdoor wood deck, plus our driveway and my wheelchair ramp. It still runs like new.

I was running it on the provided cord witch was plenty ( I do have a 12 awg romex cord in a semi flex hose but did not use it). The voltage drop slows down these brush motors and since most get their cooling from airflow and a fan on the shaft, they over heat. If they were to stay cool, you could run them without harm. Sears used to make a two speed vacuum and designed the motor to stay cool in the low speed setting because of less airflow. Although the speed was controled by how much of the winding would be used, not voltage.

sounds like chinese made junk.

THe really cheap ones use crappy series wound universal motors. Really what do you expect for $100? The pump portion alone costs more than that for a good one.

I remember a colman I bought long ago the same size with a brushless motor of the same amps laste alot longer but cost 5 x as much. I never expected to get the wrong motor for a 100 bucks.

A month ago I wanted to more than the cheapest at Napa and asked for a US made or at the very least not chinese and He said OK and I bought it. A week later I saw the box in my car and read it. But there was a catch, it read MADE IN USA or Taiwan or China. It is some new strange way of really saying made in China 99% of the time ( My take on it). Did Napa lie to me? Or I should have been less trusting and read the package.

I forgot to mention that the product was 4 mag wheel lugs to fit a Datsun 210 1978 ( I thought the source would make it believable).

Do you rent this treasure out? Not the machine! Regards Lee

$100 to you means $10 ex factory. What do you expect for $10?

Sorry, the $10 was my other example of a product, not the pressure washer. I should have just stuck to one product.

No. I mean the ex factory (China) price of many products is about 10% of retail. Ask yourself how good the item will be allowing for that!

I had a feeling of missing the point, I hate to see the day the chinese decide to quick making us stuff, after all americans stopped because of prices. Maybe Haiti will pick the slack.lol

I bought some chinese screwdriver and that was another new experience. I broke all the handles when I treated them like I did with "Stanley" brand. (They are us made and still in business)

If the Chinese do what the Japanese did and refuse to allow exports of crap the world will go through another convulsion. If they follow the work of W. Edwards Deming they will become unstoppable.

Japan used to be the crap making center of the universe. Now we think of it as the quality manufacturer, like Germany and Switzerland.

"By 1968, Kaoru Ishikawa, one of the fathers of TQC in Japan, had outlined the elements of TQC management: -

quality comes first, not short-term profits the customer comes first, not the producer customers are the next process with no organizational barriers decisions are based on facts and data management is participatory and respectful of all employees management is driven by cross-functional committees covering product planning, product design, production planning, purchasing, manufacturing, sales, and distribution (Ishikawa 1985)"

Too bad the US doesn't follow it's own prophet.

Japan makes good stuff, But they might be going down the road where lower tech stuff eventually gets outsourced to a cheaper country. This is base on the time I opened a Makita drill to clean out some junk that got in and I noticed that the motor that used to be japanese is stamped made in china. I was a boy when Japan had a reputation for exporting junk. Then one day as a teen I saw a Harley minibike made in japan.