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Originally Posted by Einar72
Having said all that, many Orange Drops are also made in Communist China, the mfr. simply trying to be price-competitive (some are still made here). What I do is cruise eBay and local venues looking for NOS Sprague, Aerovox, Pyramid, Arco, etc. If you HAVE to put foreign-made parts in your 50-year-old TV, buy ASC (American Shizuki Co.). They are still made in the old TRW plant in Ogallala, Nebraska. I talked with their reps in my office back in '88 or '89, back when Japan, Inc. was swallowing up what companies they hadn't run out of business.
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I'm with you on buying American, and I don't think people realize that practically nothing is made here anymore.
If there was an American owned company that manufactured their own caps, I would buy from them without even thinking about it.
The problem is, all day long we buy things made from communist China, and don't even know it. They are backing our national debt for goodness sake!! I'm sure I speak for most of us when I say that it's had a devastating effect on our countries economy, since most everything has moved overseas these past 40 years.
I have some House & Home magazines from the late 50's and early 60's, and in the ads, most every company shows their locations throughout the USA: Lets say it was an add for door locks, or windows, or heaters, it would say: Plant locations: Albany, Rochester, Williamsburg, Baltimore, Atlanta.
Things were made here!! Amazing....
But at the same time, what battle do we fight now?
I certainly would never be able to take the time to look for all NOS caps for every set I was restoring. It could take weeks or months, if you could even find them all, and if they would even be good by now?
It's too incredible to believe there isn't one good company, in ALL of the USA, producing capacitors, tubes, etc..!
I'll look into the ( American Shizuki Co.), but just the name doesn't sound like it's going to be American to me.
Sometimes things are assembled here, to say they are "made in the USA" but the plants for making the parts are still overseas.