Posted on 12/14/2011 6:20:21 PM PST by Psalm 144
Sometimes there is an angel or at least cause for encouragement in the details. I recently had to purchase a number of food grade buckets from a restaurant supply store. I found what I needed and brought them home.
Looking at the buckets, they just started to grow on me. Plain, translucent white buckets, but with pleasing proportions, weight, solidity, crisp injection molding and firm tight lids. After a bit I realized what I was looking at was old fashioned quality and that is what was so satisfying about these humble food buckets.
Wondering where they came from and with some trepidation, I turned one over and looked on the bottom:
"HUNTINGTON BEACH CA. MADE IN USA"
I have never so appreciated a piece of plastic. I have never before appreciated such a simple thing as a proof of national excellence. We still have it in us to make the best, to be the best, and to see the best days ahead of us.
All of our problems are artificial. All of them. They are cobbled together by or through malevolent authorities, dullard administrators, insatiable tort practitioners, rabid luddites and the resentments of small and envious people. It is within us to recover. We just have to sever the connection between such people and any access to power.
We have a republic, IF we can keep it.
Ask the brewmasters on FR, there are many of them here—6-gal plastic food grade buckets are regularly used in homebrew beer making! used to ferment their wort into beer.
Semper Brewing!
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I'm sure that some most people never look at things this way. I have coffee with a retired art prof some days and we have this ongoing discussion about beauty in objects. I cannot convince him that a well made object can be beautiful when it was designed to be functional. I once showed him a titanium connecting rod that came from a motorcycle engine. To me it is a beautiful shape. He could see not beauty in it at all.
Nice. You’ll like this, too: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/MadeInAmerica/
ABC has been out in front on this. Their house builder has a list you can download that proves 100% of a modern home can come from American suppliers, and at a cost only 1-2% more. Yet we’re told constantly that US manufacturing id dead and can’t compete. We’re our own worst enemies when we believe this garbage instead of finding a way to make it work.
Nothing to be ashamed of...
AceMart supplies my food-grade, made in the US, 24 liter buckets with nicely fitting lids.
Semper dolor!
/johnny
/johnny
I have a Techumseh roto tiller I got when my great grandmother died. It was built around 1947.
So while I was at the restaurant supply store I picked up one that actually was better than what I had been using... Straighter sides, but still no possible undercut... and heavier... Heck... that thing weighed 3 times what my old Red Chinese bread pan weighed.
And it makes gread bread... It was made in America, and not much more expensive than the stuff made with slave labor. And much better.
/johnny
Think so!
I cannot convince him that a well made object can be beautiful when it was designed to be functional
Study Shaker tools, furniture and kitchen inplements - even broom! Then ask your prof friend his opinion. If he can not see beauty in the well crafted design of the Shakers I’m afraid your pal is a bit of an art snob.
It’s a blessing to have gratitude. Americans take a lot for granted. I’m thankful to have a grocery store to buy fresh food, among other life’s essentials.
I think you've got this guy nailed. My mother has a couple of shaker chairs, they are beautiful and simple. Can't say if they are comfortable, she won't let me sit in them!
I picked up an old 8 hp Wisconsin engine at the dump a few years back. Found out they’re still in business and called. An older gentleman answered the phone and through the serial number he told me it was made in late 40’s.. and probably by his father who worked in their machine shop. He gave me a few tips, offered to send me a manual and an hour later she was running like it was built yesterday. It’s the strongest running most dependable small motor we use around the farm. Amazes me every time I wrap the rope around the thing and one pull start it.
Thank You for a most delightful thread!
My Made in the USA Gibson Les Paul is a work of HIGH ART.
It often IS the small things that make us happy. Wonderful that you recognized the quality of the buckets and could enjoy what the workers put into their product. Would probably be greatly appreciated if you shared you observation (and maybe this thread) with the company in a letter, commending their workers and company’s standards. Not likely they get a lot of kudos.
Amen
Do you know who has the Homebrew ping list?
Check the triangle on the bottom...if it is No 2, it is good...it is HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and if it is another number and underneath it states, High Density Polypropylene, it is even better.
Made in America is a significant plus...you should be able to count on what it is declared to be...Made in China...they lie.
And we can keep our Republic...but we cannot do it by sitting on our hands...
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