Over at Tool Nut (our friends, a store we buy from, and an affiliate partner), they’re running an interesting promo where you can save up to 15% on Dewalt tools and accessories made in the USA (with global materials).
Some of the eligible tools are of the kind that don’t go on sale often, such as their compact brushless reciprocating saw, cordless adhesive gun, and even corded reciprocating saws.
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The list of tools isn’t very large – there are only 36 eligible tools and accessory – but I felt that some of you would be interested in this promo. I think it’s worth taking a quick look.
Buy 2 tools to save 10%, and 3 to save 15%.
Buy Now(Eligible Tools via Tool Nut)
Promo ends 5/31/2019. The discount appears in your cart at checkout. Note: Adding 4 or more eligible items to your cart breaks the promo.
Unfortunately, the promo doesn’t work on Dewalt USA-made screwdrivers, but perhaps next time?
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Chris
*assembled in the USA
The What?
There’s no difference between the made in China Dewalt tools and the made (assembled) in the USA with global materials (made in China) tools. They’re one in the same. The discount should be applicable to all Dewalt tools sold by toolnut. I’m curious about what parts of these so called made in the USA sbd tools are produced in the US and who makes these parts and where this facility is that’s making them. Does anyone know of a facility in the US that is making parts for sbd tools? I suspect that not one single part has ever been manufactured in the US for any of the tools that sbd is advertising as made in the USA with global materials. Would this be constituted as public deception and false advertising? I know that sears subbed out production to several US manufacturers when they’re tools were made here, but I don’t recall ever hearing about sbd taking a similar approach with US manufacturers. So which parts of these tools are made in the USA?
James Davis
I’ve seen the video just released by CRAFTSMAN showing brushless motors being wound at the facility in Fort Mill, SC. It would stand to reason that DeWalt does the same. So, it would seem the motors are indeed manufactured in the USA ( with global parts ). Just saying…..
Stuart
Some parts are made here, at different places.
https://14cyiuhvcgv.com/dewalt-brushless-drill-building-and-factory-tour/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
TonyT
And that’s also true for “Made In China” items; often, a significant amount of content isn’t made in China, either (for example, China only makes about 10% of the chips it consumes – the rest are imported, most likely fabbed in Taiwan (TSMC) or Korea (Samung, Hynix)).
PW
I honestly don’t understand people dumping on these tools because they’re US assembled.
I know of no other consumer-level power tool line that has ANY significant US content. If you want to support US manufacturing, then you have to support what exists. This is not 1979. There is no mystical alternative product that’s 100% US content at Chinese prices.
If US assembled products sell well, then it demonstrates a market for US manufactured goods. Over time if sales are strong, more work will shift to the US.
If everyone just sniffs at US assembly and then goes and buys Chinese-assembled tools, then SBD will get the message that it doesn’t matter, shut down their US plants, lay everyone off and move assembly elsewhere and the US worker will be _worse_ off.
The reality of the world is that so many supply chains have moved completely out of the US, it’s impractical to expect 100% US content on a complex tool with electronic components. Especially at this price point.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
fred
1979 indeed!
I remember a 1979 Chevy pickup truck that I had with an Oldsmobile Diesel engine.
What an unreliable and under-powered piece of junk. Might have been good for the battlefield for laying down smoke. After putting up with it and the dealer working on it for less than 3 years – I had a tough time trading it in and in essence wrote it off as a loss.
Frank D
Off topic & nitpick.
Please avoid the incorrect spelling of through.
Benjamen
If you really want to get pedantic, it is not an incorrect spelling, it is a less common and more informal spelling :>)
Stuart
Agreed.
I use “thru” sparingly, and usually only in the context of a time period or range.
e.g. “Now thru 5/31.”
“Now thru Friday, everyone who goes through the tunnel gets a free token.”
Frank D
Yet, it is texting short hand and the silly shortening for road signs that is grabbing hold … but that does not mean is is correct language use.
We need all the help we can get to rescue the landslide that is the very poor English language skill / use within the US. Every single day, I see people who grew up in the US, finished school, even college … misuse their, they’re, there … and any of a dozen other things. It even happens in written “news” media.
And, I would have failed English as a fourth language in high school if I did not know the difference …
So, just a humble request to stick to “formal”.
Stuart
To be frank – and this sounds odd giving that you’re Frank – I’ll take your request to heart.
I am actually quite sensitive about the words and phrases that I use. I check spelling and grammatical references frequently, and have consulted references about the suitability of thru vs. through before.
Historically, and I checked a Google site search to be sure, I have used thru in only two contexts. The first relates to time period or duration end points, such as “thru 5/31/19.” The other common usage is when describing pass-thru sockets, which is how brands often describe them, or other such product names.
I try to write colloquially, which tends to allow for some divergence from formal writing practices. Starting a sentence with “and,” for example, is a widely discouraged practice, but something that I have done in posts, and you have done in your comment.
I won’t argue that “thru” is proper, but I would say that it is not incorrect, and that after investigating its aptness, I continue to use it deliberately in very specific context. There are times when the need for brevity or flow can make a compelling case for informality.
It might not be the best practice, to use “thru” instead of “through,” but there is reasoning behind it. When I do write “thru,” it’s deliberate, at least 99% of the time.
Your request will likely influence my word choice the next time I consider using “thru” in a title, but its use in posts will likely continue. Sometimes “Deal/promo ends mm/dd/yy” works, other times “Deal is valid mm/dd thru mm/dd/yy” reads better, and using “through” instead just doesn’t feel as right.
fred
I am just as concerned about what I see as a decline in reading comprehension within the US. Despite what we spend on education (if my school taxes are any indication). We are not in the top tier of nations when it comes to literacy – and I worry about how a further decline will impact our competitiveness in an increasingly global economy. Over the years I encountered many workers who struggled with reading seemingly basic instructions despite having graduated high school and/or having some college education or even a degree.
ToolGuyDan
If it affects your ability to comprehend the meaning (or at least acts as a stumbling-block), may I recommend TamperMonkey or a similar browser extension to fix it in real time?
As to your larger point: see https://xkcd.com/1414/ and https://xkcd.com/1227/ .
Altan
I personally like to use formal in all the languages I know, but not everybody does, that makes me think also. As a person who knows 4 different languages and a bit of a few more languages I can say that we don’t have a perfect language in the world. All have some problems, Making the words short is good if it does not change the meaning, if we can make the words short, why not? But I would like the new short words to be formal first and then used in everyday life, I am always open to new changes which make sense. We should remember that there is no language that has been remained the same if we compare them to 500 years ago. Another thing that I would like to mention is that if the words in a language are pronounced and written differently that means that language has become a written language much earlier than the ones which are similar in writing and pronouncing the words. The good example is French for this, if you look at French you would notice 3 out of 8 of the letters in a French word is basically pronounced, that gives me the clue that French has been a written language for many centuries and by time people have started to pronounce the words differently, you can see this in English a bit but not as much as French, In German is much much less as some say German is pronounced how it is written. In Turkish the words are pronounced as they are written and tat is because they changed the alphabet to Latin script just 100 years ago and they decided to write the words the way they are pronounced with the new alphabet. We can see the more aged written languages have more changes in pronunciation also, that tells us something, that people naturally don’t like to pronounce the words the way they are written!!! In Turkish we have a natural harmony for the vowels, we have soft and hard vowels, in each word all the vowels can be soft vowels or just hard vowels, you can not mix them together in one word, that is why we break the foreign loan words according to this rule if they have mixed vowels, I can give some examples from German also.
I would like to see one single language on earth which is most simple language also instead of different problematic languages we use now.
Altan
Assembled or made it does not matter. What I understand is Made in USA (tools) for Made in USA (people) and Made in China (tools) for made in Europe (people)
Why is that?!!!
Robert
CPO outlets is having a sale of 15% off DeWalt saws. The 60v concrete saw with two 3ah batteries is $636.
Bill
Yes, I just saw the deal at CPO and I’m wondering if that’s about as good a deal as can be expected from now through Father’s Day on Dewalt saws? Specifically I’m looking at the new Dewalt DCS335B, barrel grip jigsaw.
Stuart, what do you think?
Stuart
Frankly, I have no idea. Promos this time of year can be very uncertain.
To answer the “to buy or not?” question, I consider two values. How much better of a deal might we see based on historical promos? How much more will I have to spend if I pass on the deal and something better does not come again?
If waiting might save me $10 more, or cost $60 extra, I weigh the benefits vs. the risk and guess on probability.
Something like a concrete saw is not going to be promoted often.