IS NOTHING MADE IN THE WEST ANYMORE

[TDH]

Many years ago when I was getting started in the welding fabrication trade the company I worked for got in some Japanese steel because? It was half as expensive. The problem was we couldn't weld the stuff. We tried different gas and wire combinations and dozens of different rods and the weld kept cracking out. The solution. Japanese welding rod that had to be special ordered. We used up that batch of steel and never ordered it again. the boss had a chunk of it framed with a couple of the rods in tribute to futility. Maybe some of the Americans here will remember the days when we said if it doesn't say made in the U.S.A. don't buy it. Rumor had it they changed the name of the Manufacturer to USA (without the periods) So it was made in USA. How many of those cheap transistor radios made in USA we went through in the late fifties and early sixties.