American made

[Dryfly24]

Note the bike on the far side.......... (WISH it was mine)

This one IS mine… ?

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[Trickster]

Firearms and ammunition are one of the few 100% us made items other than raw materials because of various import/export laws and it not being worth the hassle. Other than those, i also cant think of anything that is a complex 100% us made item that isnt a boutique type of thing.

Zippo lighters, Redwing boots, Maglite flashlights, Wilson footballs,
Crayola crayons, Airstream trailers, Kitchenaid mixers.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Zippo lighters, Redwing boots, Maglite flashlights, Wilson footballs,
Crayola crayons, Airstream trailers, Kitchenaid mixers.

Pella windows and doors...... unless the screws and screen spline comes from somewhere else.
Aluma trailers except for the tires, perhaps. Even the coupler is US made (Iowa, I believe)
PJ trailers - I didn't find anything chinese on mine when I had it.

I wonder about DeeZee products.............

 

[bleda2002]

Zippo lighters, Redwing boots, Maglite flashlights, Wilson footballs,
Crayola crayons, Airstream trailers, Kitchenaid mixers.

I'll believe Crayola, and redwing, maglite is assembled in the us but parts are still sourced and imported, also unlikely an air stream has 100% domestic content or the kitchen aid. When I say fully us made I mean everything short of straight raw materials.

 

[jsalbre]

DeeZee awnings are completely US as far as I know. Airstreams have a number of components that are made overseas, such as refrigerators, microwaves, AC units, etc.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

DeeZee awnings are completely US as far as I know. Airstreams have a number of components that are made overseas, such as refrigerators, microwaves, AC units, etc.

DeeZee, in Iowa, makes running boards, truck tool boxes and accessories, bug deflectors, and other stuff. A friend and co-worker was taking some classes on CNC machine shop at a local college and he said the company was having so much trouble finding qualified workers, especially tool and die, they sent employees to class to learn..........
I had assumed any maker of campers/travel trailers, would be using "appliances" made elsewhere. Every one I owned had something like those items made somewhere aside from the USA except for my very first one, from the 1960s (man, that whole thing was an antique LOL but it was all I could afford at the time)
You can bet Airstream, Winnebago (Forest City, Iowa) and others use appliances made where-ever.

 

[jsalbre]

DeeZee, in Iowa, makes running boards, truck tool boxes and accessories, bug deflectors, and other stuff. A friend and co-worker was taking some classes on CNC machine shop at a local college and he said the company was having so much trouble finding qualified workers, especially tool and die, they sent employees to class to learn..........
I had assumed any maker of campers/travel trailers, would be using "appliances" made elsewhere. Every one I owned had something like those items made somewhere aside from the USA except for my very first one, from the 1960s (man, that whole thing was an antique LOL but it was all I could afford at the time)
You can bet Airstream, Winnebago (Forest City, Iowa) and others use appliances made where-ever.

Hah, you’re right. You said “DeeZee” but I saw “ZipDee”. They’re the manufacturer of the awnings that Airstream uses. I lived in an Airstream full time for a bit, so I’m intimately familiar with just about every component they use!

 

[Mac]

Boga grip

 

[TroutFishingInAmerica]

Made in USA. I have a small bicycle collection. One of my bikes is a Schwinn American, they were made from about 1955-1965, made with all American parts. Mine is a 1962. So most Schwinn bikes even back decades ago did have some imported components somewhere on them, unless you bought the American.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Made in USA. I have a small bicycle collection. One of my bikes is a Schwinn American, they were made from about 1955-1965, made with all American parts. Mine is a 1962. So most Schwinn bikes even back decades ago did have some imported components somewhere on them, unless you bought the American.

Cool - love old bicycles and old motorcycles (they all came from the same parents if you go far enough back)
My friend in the late 60s/early 70s had a genuine Schwinn "Stingray" and one thing I seem to recall about it was that the fasteners were not all the same as my bike (a clone). Seems there was more metric - do I have that correct? There was just something about his where my wrenches didn't fit his bike. Damn, that was YEARS ago.
I love seeing what Mike (Antique Archaeology) picks up - the old wood wheel bikes, the spring front forks (my first minibike I made using the front fork off a bike with sprung front forks - my parents had zip for money so they told me - if I want something, make it and they'd help where they could.)

I suspect we can go back a long ways and see that not everything is as we might believe.

 

[IAGLADI8R]

Zippo lighters, Redwing boots, Maglite flashlights, Wilson footballs,
Crayola crayons, Airstream trailers, Kitchenaid mixers.

Scratch RedWing boots off that list

 

[IAGLADI8R]

The world has changed, we have changed, the USA has changed. it's a hard line to walk these days. I grew up in a very pro-union family. Dad was a union steward for years and then was elected president of their UAW local. I know factories, manufacturing and unions at least from HIS perspective and the "made in USA" thing. And yet, today....... it's so different.
So many things are - well, I recall seeing the packaging of an item we bought a while back - can't recall what it was, but I recall the packaging and it literally said "assembled in Mexico from......." and it went on to state the parts made in various other places - not in the USA but the company that had it manufactured was a solid USA based company. Headquartered in the states. So, what do you do - not buy the item because it was assembled in Mexico or the parts came from Canada, China, India or where-ever, and the company that designed it and had it made was USA-based - and possibly they owned the factory in Mexico, maybe even one of the other factories?
What about the American engineers that worked in the headquarters here to create and design that thing? What about the profits of the shareholders of that company - maybe I have stock in that company through an IRA or 401K?
Geesh, this is confusing!

I come from a union household also and have always tried to buy Union American made products 1st. If some of the foreign name plates were UAW and made here I would consider them, until then I will buy from the big three.

 

[Klutch]

I come from a union household also and have always tried to buy Union American made products 1st. If some of the foreign name plates were UAW and made here I would consider them, until then I will buy from the big three.

If it's a good product at a good price which equals a good value, I'm happy to support American labor unions. If it's overpriced crap, which it often has been over the past few decades, forget about it. Not going to shoot myself in the foot just to support a bunch of union fatcats. (Fatcats referring to union bosses and not union members themselves.)

 

[Bbannongmu]

Gladiator made 40th on the list. Not too bad. Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee are much higher up on the list.
https://www.cars.com/articles/2021-...ndex-which-cars-are-the-most-american-437020/

 

[Higher_Ground]

I have ended up with several items sold by Green Toys (https://www.greentoys.com/). They claim made in the USA out of recycled material, and while I have no way to verify they seem well made to me. My kids have lots of the bath toys - they drain easily and have held up well for years.

Darn Tough socks (https://darntough.com/) are made in Vermont and I've yet to have a pair wear out. Pretty sure the wool comes from other countries, though.

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