"Toller" wrote in message
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Grizzly has up graded their 17 and 19" extreme band saws by changing the
trunnions to cast iron, and raising the price $200. Are cast iron
trunnions really worth $200 (or 25%) more? The old saws actually weight a
couple pounds more.

Or course not, but there may have been other improvements, plus the cost of
raw material is skyrocketing so it was, perhaps, a good time to give an
overall increase.