The last bearings I bought for my JD baler were designed and marketed by Seiko....you know, the watch folks. Bearings were made in China to their spec. As fine a product as I ever had in my hand.
I think the oriental mindset has contributed a lot to our way of life that our suppliers didn't care to consider....GM for one, recalling the CEO back just before the oriental express invaded the USA: "We'll build and sell what we want to and they (the consumer) will just have to buy it because he has no other choice". Don't remember the guy's name but had a long face and at the time made somewhere around $450k/year.
Well I guess the orientals show'd him a thing or two. Same with everything. For example, remember when NOTHING had a remote control? When TV's first came out with them they were a mechanical chime. Remember when you had an electrical device that had a mechanical thermostat contact that would arc itself to death and you or a repairman would have to come out and change it..... Today it's electronic, push button, exact temp to the degree and AC's even have remotes.
Times change and we are in changing times. If you can't do what sells, cross train so that you can. But in the mean time, that pay check you get buys a lot more oriental, and other places in the world, than it used to.
So there's my input on the universal gripe session that seem to be getting pretty common these days on the TRACTOR forum!
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