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I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
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Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tries to manufacture a grill scrubber entirely in the United States. Along the way he runs into missing supply chains, tooling and institutional manufacturing knowledge.
HN cites it constantly in US manufacturing debates as a vivid demonstration of how much domestic industrial capability has been lost.
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