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Bob,
I just wanted to say thanks very much for your efforts to straighten out the mis-order from the manufacturer.

FYI to others on this forum:

I joined this forum several months ago to do research before installing my water system at the property where I am building our house. I recently ordered a submersible pump from Bob known as SPEEDBUMP. It was suppose to come with a high quality Franklin motor but it came with a cheap Taiwan brand. What happened was the manufacturer accidentally shipped it with the wrong motor. I already had installed the thing and then realized it was not a Franklin motor. The manufacturer was not willing to help me out. Bob responded to my call within an hour of my call to talk about this. He tried calling the manufacturer and they would not correct the situation. Bob is personally buying and sending me the Franklin motor which was suppose to come with the pump. It was the manufacturers mistake (they said a new guy in the warehouse grabbed the wrong one) - yet they would not fix the situation and they are a large company.

I just really wanted to say I really appreciate doing business with someone like Bob (speedbump) that is willing to satisfy me as a customer even when it meant correcting a mistake (costing him money) that was not his fault. I am in business for myself and I am small (sole proprietor) and that is why I wanted to get on here and relate my good experience I would whole-heartedly recommend Bob to anyone here.

Sincerely,

Scott Hall
 

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Made in the USA

You are exactly right- Made in America used to mean just about everything we bought and touched and sold - and exported to the rest of the world. This is what built our infrastructure and quality of life. That is why most Africans still live and die by the sword - they have no exports and they have no infrastructure. American mining and manufacturing made us civilized and stable as a nation.

What does made in America mean today? It means someone has the balls and the ethical makeup to give up short term profit, made without any sweat on his part, for the sake of the guy that works for him. The guy that manufactures in America and lives in America makes less money but he keeps his community alive. Its fashionable to whack the American autos now - gotta have a Honda to be cool. But Honda sends it profits back to Japan, and its pension system is 1/4 of our old mainstream plants. Japanese manufacturing in America is the same as the Dutch mining gold in Africa - we are being incrementally reduced to a third world nation.

A Franklin motor is one tiny fight in this example - one of many. I built and operate a cabinet manufacturing plant, I have pumped millions of dollars into a small and poor economy. Each month almost, one of the MFG's that I bought from for years that manufactured typically in the midwest, sells his soul to the orient or Mexico. I dread that moment that the asian yellow box replaces the standby American one on the shelf. Guess what? The price is about same or higher, and the quality extraordinarily variable. They made it here, and they still can at a profit - but they want MORE.

I am not a blind buyer of American items - I buy the import that has few replacements or when the cost factor is out of sight, or when the quality is demonstrably better. The mantra that says we cant do it right anymore is false and a very dangerous path to follow.

We have a lot of Jihadi's on their merry way to kills us - if our machine tools have all been sold at auction and reside in Wing-nut province China, we are doomed. Ask mom or dad or gramps that worked in a factory in 1944.

Thats the long view on pump motors.
 
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