My school had a microscope that was made in USSR
I graduated two years ago. I live in West Germany.
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I know Germany is knows for good engineering, but "Stainless West Germany" is vague and a bit suspicious. The steel type matters more than the country of origin.
I have the counterpart at home! Rostfrei means stainless
I once saw some old tools made in Germany, mind you they were from 1907. Fucken Kaiserist steel.
At my workplace we still got some soldering fat that was still made in west Germany.
What in the nine blue hells is "soldering fat"??? Flux? Tip cleaner?
The use of soldering fat is, that the tin flows better when soldering.
It's flux
For plumbing, surely?
So since I'm being voted down, it's not for plumbing? Stained glass? Roofing? Making buckets?
For soldering, it's soldering flux Literally translating the german word for it would be soldering fat.
(Am I not getting a joke here?😅)
No. That clearly states that the material it is made from is "Stainless West Germany", which is a type of steel made mainly from iron, west, germany, and chromium.
Wrong again. Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany. West Germany was further divided into Stainable West Germany and Stainless West Germany and that's where it was made.
Close, but actually Stained Germany was divided after the war into Stainless West Germany and Rusty Red East Germany.
They were separated by the Iron Curtain.
To make things even more complicated, Rust is actually in West Germany, close to the French border
Isn't that the town where they've started rewriting parts of Linux?
Explains why West Germany no longer exists.
the compass set at my drafting desk has the marking
GERMANY
U.S. ZONE
it predates even west germany! i'm pretty sure the desk itself is even older.
i may perhaps take a photo sometime :)
Thats very rare. Havent seen any product stating the Zone it was made in yet.
Part of my job involves inspecting aircraft life vests. The CO2 cartridges and vests are reused as long as they meet the required pressure/weight. Occasionally I'll get a CO2 cartridge made in West Germany that still meets the required weight
I was working on a VW Vanagon Campmobile and the blower motor I replaced was made in West Germany. Probably not the only thing since it was pre wall fall. And I must note: I wondered if I had a photo of it, so I started in on old photo archives. And I went down fuckin memory lane for about an hour straight, lol. And I found the photo (from 2019) 
When I bought my Vanagon 8-9 years ago, the spare tire still said made in west Germany!
I replaced it along with the rest of the badly work truck tires that were on it.
I once bought a car in about 2009 and yeah the tyres held air but were dry rotted but held air, I was thinking about driving it home nice and slow and gentle.
Then I saw "Made in West Germany" on the sidewall, I called a towtruck.
but did they held air?
Yeah I accidentally a word.
Sometimes I too have that too sometimes
I was tasked with fixing a hydraulic unit a couple years back. The culprit was a Rexroth valve made in West Germany. Even had a cork gasket! I told the company that they had clearly gotten their money's worth out of that valve, as it was older than most of their employees.
It's nothing crazy, but I recently ( give or take a couple years ago ) got a supposedly made in Western Germany Klann Quality tin. It's nothing special, just a red thing with stagecoach design, but it's cool despite the fact it was probably as mass produced as they could do it back whenever it was made.
It'd be more interesting if it said DDR/East Germany
I was born in the GDR and still have a few things. Like my old vaccine passport with the red cover and the state emblem, an electric drill that I still use, and some smaller tools, but you can find those easily on any flea market. The vaccine pass is always a fun thing for the doctors when I go get my flu shot.
I have this one at home, and took a photo in my own comment
Best Germany.
Sorry but west germany will be forever stained
Luckily east germany refused to be stained, and instead deposited all the blame and collective guilt with west germany.
"The war? That was their fault... over there" says the former nazi member pointing westward while biting into a Spreewalder Gurke during his lunchbreak from a cigarette factory, where he serves as Cultural Officer.
Didn't the USSR actually punish Nazis in Eest Germany though?
Unlike the allies who just imported them to their own countries
Some, sure, and those typically harshly. Similar to the USSR & GDR, many party members were just ordinary people, where party membership was necessary or useful for their work life, and supporting the wrong party could cost you everything.
Yeah eastern germany wasn't great either but atleast they were limited to cultural officer at a cigarette factory instead of government office or a fucking seat of authority in NATO yk? The whole country is tainted in my eyes though. Denazification was an utter failure, it was barely even attempted.