If you gut the career 'way stations', and feeder streams (those techs that process samples), you create a situation where there becomes a negative feed back loop. You need a base from which industry can draw upon. To sustain high tech industries, you need intellectual capital. This sort of stupidity leads to brain drain (go OS to make a living) and a decrease in ability create the sort of tech miracles that give birth to new industries. She says they now ship samples to South Korea, because it's cheaper to do so. Now those jobs are OS these days in the Philippines as much as the Sub-continent. Those jobs down the totem were gateways for people to skill themselves up through experience and on the job training. Many entry level jobs started going overseas to the sub-continent (India/Pakistan) - and bit by bit, the lower accesses of our skills/employment pyramid have been stripped away. Outsourcing started to occur in the 'knowledge' economy as well. Somehow, there became a belief that we could move 'dirty' industries abroad and be totally about the 'knowledge' economy which was to elevate all and sundry.įunny thing happened. Generally speaking (Germany appears to be exception), the West has lost its way. I don't think the U.S will be completely hollowed out manufacturing wise because of threat of loss of IP (at least in the high end/niche industry). The U.S still retains huge industrial capacity and latent capability to grow. The Germans understand - true wealth is producing something tangible. Now we're left with a services industry (you want fries with that?) and an economy that is over dependent on exporting minerals. The parent brand company remaining based in some corporate premise but manufacturing now completely overseas. The Govt bought into this mindset and sold this propaganda as part of their macro-economic policy- and with only little encouragement, local business sought to outsource and off-shore to maximise profit (this was back when footage of out of workers cried about their loyalty to company). In my country, the 'experts said that manufacturing was a sunset industry, that we're too expensive to produce goods. The decline in USA manufacturing in the last 6 years is horrific and disgusting, taxes and insurance requirements have done a tremendous toll.
Stanley POP brand does offers long reach nose pieces and they have a nice selection, the threads are 3/8-24, but which tools they fit I am unsure. I have set SS 1/8" (#4) with SS mandrels with the knockoff model without a problem. Marson does not offer longer reach nose-pieces according to Alcoa and says either tool will set SS rivets. The HP-2 probably has Imperial threads, can someone measure this and post it. Measuring the threads on a knockoff SP-1 is 8mm x 1.25. The nose pieces from these two tools are not interchangeable, I suspect the thread size is the reason, Alcoa told me the threads are non-standard, they created their own thread, which I don't believe. Marson SP-1 (swivel head) and HP-2 (standard head) are made in Taiwan ever since Alcoa bought them out a couple of years ago.
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