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Shars vs discount_machine
- Thread starter mwill135
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L Vanice
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2006
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
Here is a typical listing that makes it clear that discount_machine is their eBay seller name and Shars is the company name.
SHARS 1" X 2" PRECISION 5C FIXTURE MOUNT LATHE FACE PLATE NEW P | eBay
Larry
SHARS 1" X 2" PRECISION 5C FIXTURE MOUNT LATHE FACE PLATE NEW P | eBay
Larry
thermite
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2011
Haven't bought MUCH from DM. ISTR a couple of Shars Cast Iron D1-3 backplates in good shape but rather sad OEM cartons. Those seemed stale stock, poorly handled internally, not returns. Studs and anchor were still in the bags, Preservative coating OEM and the usual smell.
Most was new, just cheap and Chinese.
Pre my Peoples Republic of COVID boycott, I liked H&H Industrial better than DM or CDCO for knowing which Chinese item was worth the bother and which was not.
2CW .. and "ABC"
If not US made, then Taiwan, Europe, Brazil, India... ANYBODY BUT CHINA!
Marty Feldman
Titanium
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2005
- Location
- Falmouth, Maine
Don't have much experience with Brazil, but how India made it onto your OK list puzzles me. The shoddiest examples of low-end tooling I have ever seen have been stamped "India".
-Marty-
L Vanice
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2006
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
In 2018, I bought a small milling vise from an Indian eBay seller. It was very nicely machined and precision ground; looked like good goods. Except the body came from a foundry with a severe infestation of iron worms. It was a total waste of resources to finish machine that casting. I wrote to the seller, who sells that same vise on Amazon, by the way. He said that that holey vise should have been kept in India for local sale and offered a discount. I took a full refund. They did not want me to ship it back at their expense, so it went in the trash.
I had a similar experience, but simply with abominable machining, on an Indian copy of a Cleveland adjustable reamer. Again a full refund and tool in the trash.
So I place India infinitely far below China on my list of potentially acceptable quality sources for tooling.
I have a Mitutoyo mike made in Brazil that is just as nice as their Japanese product.
Larry
Terry Keeley
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2005
- Location
- Toronto, Canada eh!
Ben
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2001
- Location
- Boones Mill, Va
Discount Machine is Shars' Ebay sale site. I have bought from both and it's the same products, just free shipping on Ebay. Everything I have bought from DM were new unopened products. I don't like buying from China but I have to look at the use and price due to my budget.
Ben
Ben
Ohio Mike
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2008
- Location
- Central Ohio, USA
They are one and the same.
ChipSplitter
Titanium
- Joined
- May 23, 2019
- Location
- Maybe
In before digger...I mean, in before the lock. 
