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Buy American - No Chinese products ever again!

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Hey if you guys are looking for a Battery. I was buying a new battery for my riding mower it seemed almost every year. I didn't use a trickle charger, and its cold in my garage.

Anyway I found this brand of [B]Battery DEKA[/B]. Made in Pennsylvania. And it has been a very good battery and lasted mUCH MUCH longer …. It finally died recently . And im buying another one. It's been so long since I bought it, I forget where I bought it.. I called the factory and couldn't find a distributor in my area except by lowes website only. So I ordered it. I could easily go down to Rural King and get one that's like 13 dollars cheaper.. BUt hell with it. This one is American made and good Quality.

Im not sure of other batteries they make...

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=deka+battery

Made by East Penn manufacturing..

https://www.eastpennmanufacturing.com/divisions/motive-power/#applications

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John Deere home lawn equipment is still made in America. The lawn & garden tractors are made either in Greeneville, Tennessee or Horicon, Wisconsin.

https://www.machinefinder.com/ww/en-US/faq/john-deere-tractors-manufactured

However, many of the company's agriculture machinery is made in foreign countries, including China. If you want to buy lawn & garden equipment from a company that is 100% American-made, all the time, consider Cub Cadet.

https://www.cubcadet.com/en_US/built-in-america.html

Or Stihl

https://www.stihlusa.com/stihl-built-in-america/

Snapper makes its home equipment in America but acknowledges on its web site that components come from China.

And remember - **** China. **** them and their flu and thievery and slave labor.
 
Yesterday I received my “Mask Worn Under Protest” mask from Amazon. It was made in China.
 
I'm in the market for a new scope for my hunting rifle. Not getting a Chinese one.
 
Djfan said:
I'm in the market for a new scope for my hunting rifle. Not getting a Chinese one.
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Trijcon.

https://www.trijicon.com/our-story/trijicon-history

Leupold/Redfield

https://www.leupold.com/

https://rifle-scope-guide.com/redfield-scopes/

Problem is those scopes are very expensive - four figures for most. I ... neighbor purchased a quasi-American product, developed and finished in the United States but made for the most part in the Philippines.

Burris 332, 3x fixed. Great scope.

https://www.burrisoptics.com/sights/ar-sights-series/ar-332

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FYI...the company that advertises on this site as " Light in the Box" is refereed to as the Chinese Amazon.

LightInTheBox was founded in June 2007 by Quji (Alan) Guo, Xin (Kevin) Wen, Liang Zhang, Jun Liu and Chit Jeremy Chau. The company operated as Light In The Box Limited until March 2008, when it was restructured and incorporated as LightInTheBox Holding Co., Ltd., acting as the ultimate holding company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightInTheBox
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You can anticipate a whole lot more Chinese in your life for the next foreseeable future....fo sho

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FYI...........

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Banggood is a Chinese e-commerce company that offers retail goods. Its partnership programs also include dropshipping, review club, affiliate, wholesale and fashion blogger. ... All of these services are all hosted on their global e-commerce website

Banggood got 2 out of 5 stars from 1,788 total reviewers, with most reviewers giving it a 1-star rating (1,187 reviews). Just 306 reviewers on SiteJabber gave the retailer 5-stars. Banggood complaints center on receiving the wrong items or not receiving either their items or a refund
 
This may not seem like a big deal, but it was a game-changer for me. I like real Christmas trees. Frasier firs. Putting them up, however, has always been a huge pain in the ***. I buy a big tree each year. I've been through so many tree stands... Ones that swivel, some with a pedal that you step on to tighten.. all are a pain in the *** to get the tree straight. Plastic pieces of ****.

Yesterday I went to the place where I always get my tree and behind a wall I noticed a gorgeous red all steel tree stand. I had never seen them there before. The owner told me that he's been selling them for years. They're expensive, but they set the tree in the stand for you, perfectly straight, and you bring it back each year and they do it again. So I bought it. It's frickin awesome. Got home, took the tree off the car, brought it inside, stood it up...finished. Done. Bowling's Last Stand, made in Michigan with American steel.

https://www.christmastreestand.com/gallery

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/po...ies-foul-as-Republicans-seize-on-15789156.php

WASHINGTON — Republicans have jumped on a report that a suspected Chinese spy developed connections to Bay Area politicians to attack Dublin Rep. Eric Swalwell. The Democrat, meanwhile, says the story was leaked to damage him.

Swalwell has been an outspoken critic of President Trump in Congress and in national media. A member of the House Intelligence and House Judiciary committees, he was a key figure in the president’s impeachment.

That has also made him a target of conservatives, who are now using an investigation into a Cal State East Bay student and Chinese national who cultivated ties with local figures including Swalwell to suggest he should lose his seat on the Intelligence Committee.

The investigation, reported by the news outlet Axios, does not accuse Swalwell of wrongdoing and says he cooperated with the FBI when it alerted him to the concerns about the woman, Christine Fang, or Fang Fang, in 2015. Swalwell has pointed to that cooperation in accusing the sources who leaked the information to Axios of seeking to smear his reputation.

Swalwell declined to be interviewed by The Chronicle, but in a statement his spokesman, Josh Richman, said Swalwell provided information about Fang to the FBI, hasn’t seen her in nearly six years, and declined to speak with Axios for its story to protect classified information.

“The FBI has now reaffirmed that Rep. Swalwell was never suspected of wrongdoing in this matter,” Richman said. “In addition, the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership were informed that Rep. Swalwell was not suspected of wrongdoing. No concerns were raised on either side of the aisle at that time or over the past five years.”

Swalwell told Politico and CNN that the timing of the leak to Axios for its yearlong investigation was suspicious.

“The wrongdoing here is the same time this story was being leaked out is the time that I was working on impeachment,” Swalwell said on CNN’s “Newsroom” on Wednesday. “If this is a country where people who criticize the president are going to have law enforcement information weaponized against them, that’s not a country that any of us want to live in. And I hope it is investigated as to who leaked this information.”

But that hasn’t stopped Republicans and right-wing media figures from seizing on the story to attack Swalwell.

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield accused Swalwell of being a “national security liability” in a tweet, noted Swalwell’s past statements accusing Trump of working to benefit Russia in saying he has “long been disqualified from serving on the Intel Committee,” and took to Fox News to bring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi into the mix as well.
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more at the link
 
A Chinese spy bundles money for a dumbshit, helps the dumbshit get elected, places an intern (i.e., spy) in his office, the dumbfuck politician ***** the spy, the FBI warns the dumbfuck that the girl he is ******* is a Chinese spy (huh, strange they never gave any type of warning to Trump), and somehow the spy learns she is under suspicion and flees back to China.

Wonder who warned her.

And "right wing media" is "seizing on the story"?

We. Are. Royally. ******.

More than the Chinese spy ******.
 
SteelChip said:
Close to home—mostly

Here’s a sampling of companies that make or assemble at least some of their products in the U.S. Note that a company’s entire output isn’t necessarily American-made. And some primarily American companies may have manufacturing facilities in more than one country to meet demand overseas.

Apparel and accessories

• Allen Edmonds shoes
• American Apparel
• Chippewa boots
• Filson apparel
• Kepner Scott children’s shoes
• Pendleton woolens (the Portland Collection and wool blankets and throws)
• Stetson hats
• True Religion and Texas jeans
• Wigwam socks

Housewares

• All-Clad, Lodge, and Nordic Ware cookware
• Bunn coffeemakers
• Dacor
• DCS
• Harden Furniture
• Kirby and Oreck vacuum cleaners
• Lasko (mostly fans)
• Pyrex glassware
• Sub-Zero refrigerators
• Viking and Wolf ranges

Tools and home equipment

• Briggs & Stratton mower and tractor engines
• Channellock and Moody hand tools
• Maglite flashlights
• Purdy paintbrushes and rollers
• Shop-Vac wet-and-dry vacuum cleaners
• Stihl gasoline-powered equipment

Others

• Airstream trailers
• Annin flags
• Crayola crayons
• Gibson and Martin guitars
• Hillerich & Bradsby (Louisville Slugger wooden bats)
• Little Tikes and K’Nex toys
• Sharpie markers
• Steinway pianos
• Wilson sporting goods (NFL footballs)

A lot more info here....
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/02/made-in-america/index.htm

There are misconceptions about how to decipher a products country of origin via the barcode.

While the first three digits do not signify what country the product was manufactured in, they do indicate the country in which the company is based. This means, the company is headquartered, or has an office in that location, but the product could have been made in another country. Since a company has to apply for a GS1 prefix, they simply state where they are located to receive their prefix, and can choose to manufacture their product anywhere in the world.

000 – 019 GS1 United States
020 – 029 Restricted distribution (MO defined, usually for internal use)
030 – 039 GS1 United States
040 – 049 Restricted distribution (MO defined, usually for internal use)
050 – 059 Coupons
060 – 139 GS1 United States
400 – 440 GS1 Germany
450 – 459 & 490 – 499 GS1 Japan
460 – 469 GS1 Russia
471 GS1 Taiwan
489 GS1 Hong Kong
500 – 509 GS1 UK
690 – 695 GS1 China
850 GS1 Cuba
867 GS1 North Korea
Complete list here......https://www.barcoding.com/blog/barcode-prefixes-and-product-country-of-origin/
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Very good post. Where can I get me some really good Chinese drywall?
 
Coach, I know you have a cadre of detractors on this site but I have never participated in their roasts because ....well just because. Please tell me what the **** you are trying to say about Chinese drywall, maybe I'm too dense to get it.
 
Black & Gold Bleeder said:
Hey if you guys are looking for a Battery. I was buying a new battery for my riding mower it seemed almost every year. I didn't use a trickle charger, and its cold in my garage.

Anyway I found this brand of [B]Battery DEKA[/B]. Made in Pennsylvania. And it has been a very good battery and lasted mUCH MUCH longer …. It finally died recently . And im buying another one. It's been so long since I bought it, I forget where I bought it.. I called the factory and couldn't find a distributor in my area except by lowes website only. So I ordered it. I could easily go down to Rural King and get one that's like 13 dollars cheaper.. BUt hell with it. This one is American made and good Quality.

Im not sure of other batteries they make...

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=deka+battery

Made by East Penn manufacturing..

https://www.eastpennmanufacturing.com/divisions/motive-power/#applications

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Here is what I found on Google Bleeder..............Amazon customers rated them about 90% good and only 7% said they sucked.

Are Deka batteries real?
  • They are the identical battery but please spend your money on AGM batteries wisely. The Deka product is not a true deep cycle AGM like Lifeline or others it is a dual purpose battery with a factory lab life cycle rating of 300-350 cycles.. If you want a good Deka/East Penn product their GEL batteries are terrific, their AGM's not so much...
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SteelChip said:
Coach, I know you have a cadre of detractors on this site but I have never participated in their roasts because ....well just because. Please tell me what the **** you are trying to say about Chinese drywall, maybe I'm too dense to get it.
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In the last construction boom 15 or so years ago we couldn’t make drywall in the U.S. fast enough and started importing it from China. The Chinese drywall was giving off toxic gases and making people sick. Happened to a bud of mine in Cape Coral, FL. He had to move out of his beautiful new house for almost a year while the inside was completely gutted and rebuilt. He and his wife had respiratory ailments which were traced to the toxic drywall. It was actually clogging the condenser in his air conditioning and being a retired plumber and HVAC guy he knew that going through three condensers in five years wasn’t normal. He looked into it, got his house tested, and found out it was poisoning him and his wife.
 
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Ron Burgundy said:
In the last construction boom 15 or so years ago we couldn’t make drywall in the U.S. fast enough and started importing it from China. The Chinese drywall was giving off toxic gases and making people sick. Happened to a bud of mine in Cape Coral, FL. He had to move out of his beautiful new house for almost a year while the inside was completely gutted and rebuilt. He and his wife had respiratory ailments which were traced to the toxic drywall. It was actually clogging the condenser in his air conditioning and being a retired plumber and HVAC guy he knew that going through three condensers in five years wasn’t normal. He looked into it, got his house tested, and found out it was poisoning him and his wife.
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I think you mean evaporator which is the indoor part of the AC system the condenser is the outside part. I would imagine the toxic drywall was inside the ductwork from construction and then being circulated thru the home and thru the evaporator every time the AC game on. Upgraded filtration may have helped with the problem but who knows.
 
The Chinese: "Our slave labor is happy to produce toys with lead in them and toxic drywall, because you save almost $15 when we kill you."

In closing, **** the Chinese. And not in a Swalwell-type manner.
 
The Swalwell story has been buried by the propagandists. There must have been something there or they would not have killed it so quickly.
 
can we get some dat chinese drywall in ark's humble abode?
 
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