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Re: Briggs & Stratton in trouble?
It's a terrible state of affairs when you can buy all the parts overseas( made by people that aren't even paid a living wage) then ship it all over here and assemble it (which does not take as much skill and call it American made.. Most companies do it.
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Re: Briggs & Stratton in trouble?
So what I'm reading here is that if our currently young children were to visit this site (or one like it) in their adulthood they'd be discussing engines made by Chongqing Bien Technology Co., Ltd., or NINGBO WELLY MACHINERY & TOOLS Co., Ltd, or Zhejiang Ousen Machinery Co., Ltd., or Changzhou Beiante Power Machinery Co., Ltd., or Fuzhou Kapur Power Equipment Co., Ltd., or Taizhou Genour Power Machinery Co., Ltd., or Yongkang Sayes Industry & Trade Co., Ltd., or.....should I go on? We're OK with this? (By the way, I didn't make up any of those names. They're Chinese manufacturers of small engines.) Heaven help us. All to save a buck. That's that many more Americans out of work.
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Re: Briggs & Stratton in trouble?
Briggs has shot themselves in the foot, as far as I'm concerned. They sat around and waited till the last minute to get on the knockoff band wagon. The knock off is a simple, superior design to the old flat head. It's cheap to make, durable and cost effective and fills a big void dollar wise. A previous poster was right. They have there own knock off. AND, recently, much of there motors, changed to metric bolts, etc. Bet they are buying short block overseas, bringing them here and addig the finishing touches and calling them American made. In go-karting, the 5 hp clone motor has taken over. Briggs effectively did away with most of the 5 hp flathead parts that people gobbled up for that purpose. They came out with the "Animal" there OHV engine. The clones have far outstriped sales in that department. You can buy one, for $150.00, go race vs the 600.00+ Animal motor.
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Bob
So by the end of the article, we see that most of these engines are in fact Chinese one way or another.