Milwaukee is TTI/China, however there is a factory here in US, and some tools made here. So Chinese owned USA tools beats Japan. TTI owns many brands, but still keep manufacturing in US AMAP Such as they own Hoover now, but Hoover is made here, esp. the commercial models. TTI is a quality Chinese company, and there are others I have found, such as Cleva, Midea, and Haier who bought the GE home appliance name. While it's true that Haier purchased GE's appliance business for $5.4 billion, Haier only purchased GE's appliance unit, not the entire company, as suggested in the claims. The transaction also took place in 2016, not in 2021. I have a fridge and a small Haier microwave, both 12 years young, work like new, made in 2012, before they bought GE Appliances division.
I'm not sure the piston rods were a proper experiment because it was bolts that were breaking. I guess your testing the bolt strength were the bolts all stock from the original. Some bolts were not what broke first so my question is which is the winner because if your going by bolts than the M3 and 530 bolts held up. Funny thing is those both broke at the top in the exact same spot with damn near the exact same size failure. As far as bolts go those two win but as far as rods go I predicted the old car would win and that was correct. Things were just built better as far As heavy duty goes back in the day
I absolutely do not understand why they test the strength of the connecting rod in tension when the connecting rod is stressed by pressure after the expansion of the fuel mixture in the engine cylinder.
