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Destin Sandlin examines the systemic engineering and economic hurdles involved in manufacturing a grill scrubber entirely in America. Through a deep dive into sourcing components like injection-molded knobs and specialized chain mail, the project highlights the complexities of maintaining domestic supply chains and preserving vital technical trade skills in a competitive global market.

  • immutable@lemmy.zip
    4·
    11 days ago

    This entire series boils down to Destin finding this simple thing out again and again.

    If you want to assemble a bunch of low value inputs into a finished product, America isn’t manufacturing the low value inputs.

    Basically every step along the way he has tried to make his business buying a bunch of American made low value inputs and then paying a room of college aged kids to assemble them into a high value product. And he keeps finding the same answer, you can buy your inputs from overseas or make them yourself.