Private equity company from Florida bought out Starrett..we shall see, but I'm not aware of any company that improved it's quality or reputation when the corporate pirates got done. Lufkin...gone. Brown & Sharpe...gone. Sad.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
Private equity company from Florida bought out Starrett..we shall see, but I'm not aware of any company that improved it's quality or reputation when the corporate pirates got done. Lufkin...gone. Brown & Sharpe...gone. Sad.
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It is sad enough that Starrett is going, but even worse is the loss of an entire industry. Hand/mechanical measuring tools are going the way of the Dodo bird. Likewise with American Made machinery. Old machines and old machinists are both destined for extinction. GD
I started the tool and die trade August 27th 1979 and started buying tools. Most are Starrett and for many years they were top notch. I am still using them to this day on a daily basis in my own shop. There seems to not be a demand for the tools or those of us that have used them for many years.
Private equity company from Florida bought out Starrett..we shall see, but I'm not aware of any company that improved it's quality or reputation when the corporate pirates got done. Lufkin...gone. Brown & Sharpe...gone. Sad.
That is sad. The odds of Wall Street maintaining or improving quality are indeed slim……
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively... Having said that, MAGA.
Machinist and Tool & Die Maker have been dieing trades for several years now. I had 40yrs. in the Tool & Die trade before being riffed during the Obama years, never able to find employment after that. I had a side business selling machinist tool, that too has shown a decline, not as many with home shops as there used to be. The tool business over the years paid for lots of guns and hunting trips, from time to time I help retired guys sell their tools. The interest is nowhere like it used to be.
Private equity company from Florida bought out Starrett..we shall see, but I'm not aware of any company that improved it's quality or reputation when the corporate pirates got done. Lufkin...gone. Brown & Sharpe...gone. Sad.
So what? Their crap has been made in China for years now.
Most of the precision tools in my Gerstner chests are Starrett, some Brown and Sharpe and a few German and Swiss items. Just like my “under the bench” box with the hammers, files, wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers etc, not a single Asian tool in the bunch, everything is US, German or Swiss. Almost forgot, some Brit try squares.
Sorta asking myself, how many in this generation even know how to use such instruments.
DF
Not many Especially the old vernier tools I have. Have 2 different dial calipers. The rest are vernier. Nothing wrong with the decades-old Mitutoyo tools I have. They'll work just as well and accurately as the Starrett or B&S tools, but again, they're older
Sorta asking myself, how many in this generation even know how to use such instruments.
DF
Not many Especially the old vernier tools I have. Have 2 different dial calipers. The rest are vernier. Nothing wrong with the decades-old Mitutoyo tools I have. They'll work just as well and accurately as the Starrett or B&S tools, but again, they're older
I grew up with a slide rule. Haven’t seen one of those in years.
Sorta asking myself, how many in this generation even know how to use such instruments.
DF
A lot more than you might think. I watch a lot of automotive videos, engine building videos, and other media where machinists are involved and they all not only make great use of precision measuring tools but often use new tools I've never seen before. Of course, I wish I had every tool they use, even if I don't need it...
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I have Starrett, Brown & Sharpe, & a few Mitutoyo precision measuring tools that I inherited from my father after he inherited them from my grandfather and they are still right on. When my kids see them they ask me what are these things for?? even after I have told them many times in the past! My grandkids don't even look at them. Too bad you can't use smartphones for precision measurement. The industry would go on and on and on . . . I hear you guys loud and clear.
