8 Apr
2011
8 Apr
'11
8:12 p.m.
On 4/8/11 11:02 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Same here. The once-mighty American manufacturing industry is all
but dead. It's pretty sad. Now China owns our asses.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I have my
plastics for my joysticks done out of Indiana, my PCB's from a
firm in Utah, I source my IC's and components from Mouser. The only
things I can't get here in the US are my custom silicon contact parts,
there is no money in them, so nobody seems to want to do them and I
can't find anyone in the US that actually MAKES, not sells USB cables,
all the companies source them in from China, so I buy those direct.
All of the assembly is done here in NY and shipped.
Unfortunately it seems most of the UK manufacturing companies have gone
bust, and the few who are left aren't really interested in small-scale
work unless you're willing to pay well over the market rate...