[6pack] Welding Helmet Question

[Hugh Barber]

With regards to "cheaper = overseas junk", it is not necessarily true 
that spending more will equal domestically-made goods or goods of a 
higher quality.  With today's outsourcing fever, you are just as likely 
to get junk from the "name" companies as you are likely to get from 
"no-name" companies.  I think back to the pet food problem of a year or 
so ago.  Those who were spending extra dollars on supposedly better pet 
food from companies like Science Diet found out (too late) that those 
companies were buying the same basic ingredients from the same Chinese 
sources as Wal-Mart was buying for their bottom-dollar pet food.  It 
seems to me that many companies today are willing to risk their good 
reputation in exchange for higher profits.  Don't even get me started on 
screen doors - when I was a kid, our screen door lasted 15 years. Seems 
you can't buy one today that lasts more than 15 months.  Even if you 
want to pay more, they just aren't available. Stepping off soap-box now.....

Hugh Barber
Stafford, Va
'73 TR6