A rant about...... shims

[razark]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Your wrong. I had no choice. There are no other hardware stores near my area, and these were the ONLY shims they had. And apparently you missed the part where i said, "If i had access to a band saw....". Which i don't. I live in an apartment complex. Its not like i have a garage to store shop power tools in.

Sorry if that came out the wrong way. My post was not meant to be taken so seriously.

But you do have other choices. You could drive further to find a store that does carry American shims. Find a friend who has some tools. Carve them with a pocket knife. Order them online. Find a way to do the job without them.

There are many ways to get them, the problem is that the other methods will be much more expensive and/or time consuming. You can get the Chinese product cheap, and you can get it now. Which is why Walmart is filled with "Made in China" labels, and the parts of your vehicle (and mine) are made elsewhere. Unless everyone stops buying foreign products and starts doing without or finding domestic substitutes, the foreign producers will always be here.


And I simply don't see too many Americans volunteering to go without or buy more expensive products.