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<blockquote data-quote="satellitedriver" data-source="post: 1550939" data-attributes="member: 1664"><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Correction.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>It was 37yrs ago. I made one of the first overhead cranes shipped to China in 1978 under former President Nixon's trade agreement with China.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Funny story about that, if you have the time to read.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>I was pissed off about building the crane for China, because I was told it could have no marks on it showing that it was made in America.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Only the finest quality Steel was used.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Inspectors made sure that none of the I-beams, channel iron or angle iron had any USA factory marks on them.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>The specs were as high as the crane I was working on for nuclear power plant.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>It was only a 5 ton overhead crane for cripes sake.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Evil me popped out.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>I knew the engineers and inspectors would scour over every detail when it was finished.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Span and square tolerances of 1/16 of an inch over a 100ft span.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>.005 of an inch on the wheel axles.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>5/8ths camber on the main I-beam.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>Evil me knew they would never look up under the channel iron that was welded on the top of the I-beam as a stiff back.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>That is where I stamped my initials, date and made in the USA.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>I laugh to myself some times when I use a Chinese made tool.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>We shipped all our manufacturing overseas and the unions are a big factor in that global equation.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><strong>BTW, insurance in any form is never free. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satellitedriver, post: 1550939, member: 1664"] [COLOR=#006600][B]Correction.[/B] [B]It was 37yrs ago. I made one of the first overhead cranes shipped to China in 1978 under former President Nixon's trade agreement with China.[/B] [B]Funny story about that, if you have the time to read.[/B] [B]I was pissed off about building the crane for China, because I was told it could have no marks on it showing that it was made in America.[/B] [B]Only the finest quality Steel was used.[/B] [B]Inspectors made sure that none of the I-beams, channel iron or angle iron had any USA factory marks on them.[/B] [B]The specs were as high as the crane I was working on for nuclear power plant.[/B] [B]It was only a 5 ton overhead crane for cripes sake.[/B] [B]Evil me popped out.[/B] [B]I knew the engineers and inspectors would scour over every detail when it was finished.[/B] [B]Span and square tolerances of 1/16 of an inch over a 100ft span.[/B] [B].005 of an inch on the wheel axles.[/B] [B]5/8ths camber on the main I-beam.[/B] [B]Evil me knew they would never look up under the channel iron that was welded on the top of the I-beam as a stiff back.[/B] [B]That is where I stamped my initials, date and made in the USA.[/B] [B]I laugh to myself some times when I use a Chinese made tool.[/B] [B]We shipped all our manufacturing overseas and the unions are a big factor in that global equation.[/B] [B]BTW, insurance in any form is never free. [/B] [B][/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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