Stanley Tool

I was reading an article that Stanley tool bought out DeWalt,Porter-Cable,Black & Decker,and Delta Tool. It also stated that DeWalt ( now Stanley Tool) makes all the Rigid Tools for Home Depot. It went on to say that most of the parts for tools are made in China out of pot metal and shipped to USA and put together in this country.

When did this come about? I stopped buying all of these brands around the turn of the century because they were junk.

Yes Stanley owns many companies.
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That's kind of how it is with anything. As long as people are more loyal to a brand than they're concerned about quality,we'll keep getting junk no matter what the brand name is.

We take no pride in what we build today . It's all about the all mighty dollar today.

That's the devil of it,you have to shop for quality and some people are so hung up on brand names that,let's face it,aren't what they used to be,that companies are just selling on their past reputation.

What are you suppose to do? When you use a tool you like until it wears out and replace it with what you think is the same make and model number only to find out it's been re-designed to be junk. I don't know how many porter cable belt sanders I've used until the armature was shot. Then I buy one which later on I find out is a type 7 which they replaced the cogged belt with a serpentine belt which slips so much you can't use it. Then I buy a Delta planer which for a long time I spent more time re-assembling it that using it. It kept falling apart until I started using threadlock. By then it was missing some parts which Delta doesn't sell. I think the last straw was when I bought a Delta grinder which only lasted two weeks.

And that's why the future according to Star Trek probably will never happen.

The Stanley tools my Dad owned /still owns were of good quality .Things like wood planes . The Stanley tools I saw for sale in my time did not impress me and I have very few.

Ya,that's the heck of it,if you do find something that is quality made and switch to them,if the company you were loyal to for so long does improve their product,how will you know? They've already ruined their reputation and lost a customer.

I think the company that bought up or controls most of the "premium" power tool lines is called TTI, I'm not sure if this is an off chute of the TTI floor care that popped up after Maytag got bought up by Whirlpool and spun Hoover off to the same folks that owned/made Royal Vacuums. Being one of those right wing kooks I want to believe that if there is a void in the market eventually someone will come up with a product that will fill the void. The history of US tools as been that they establish a name and for whatever reason (market conditions, taxes, regulation, technology) and the company is bought out and the product is cheapened and the new owners take profit from the business while they devalue the reputation of it, or if the quality is reduced in an effort to reduce price point and increase market share. Anyway if all the premium brands have gotten soaked up by one company and the quality or service isn't there I would hope that someone else would come up with a business/marketing strategy that would re-introduce higher quality tools and with appropriate marketing eventually develop a business model that allows a good or greater ROI by providing better tools or can make up the difference in service needs. We also may have to accept that there are not as many people fixing, maintaining and building things in their garages and shops as there once was. Much like agriculture where farms and equipment have gotten bigger needing fewer people to provide food for everyone the improvement in many other areas have left us with a need for fewer people to support the industry. An example is look at cars and light trucks and the maintenance required. So many of our new vehicles require nothing but fluids and filters for scheduled maintenance for 100,000 miles, 50 years ago at 100,000 miles you'd of been through 5 or 6 sets of spark plugs, as many points and condensers a couple-three distributor caps, wires and rotors, a fuel pump, carburetor (or rebuild) and would more than likely be looking at a valve job or engine rebuild. With all that maintenance not being needed it makes sense we need fewer mechanics that need fewer tools.

I didn't know Mac and Proto were still around. I haven't seen one of their trucks in years.

Here is what I found.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., formerly known as The Stanley Works, is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware and provider of security products and locks headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut. Stanley Black & Decker is the result of the merger of Stanley Works and Black & Decker on March 12, 2010.[4]

Even more interesting is reading who owns what. Stanley / B & D owns a lot of brand name tools.
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They also bought Craftsman 2 or 3 months ago

(quoted from post at 11:27:48 06/18/17) We take no pride in what we build today . It's all about the all mighty dollar today.

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In business it has always been, and rightly so, about the dollar. Making a dollar is the only reason to be in business and anyone who owns/runs a business and doesn't put the dollar first is a effing moron.

Some businesses used to be successful because people were willing to pay more for the higher quality, but now there are not that many consumers who will spend the extra. So many businesses properly cut quality in order to stay competitive. Good for them.