On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:34:05 -0400, Bill
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woodchucker wrote:
On 3/17/2014 7:00 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:21:23 -0400, Bill
wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:01:08 -0400, Bill
wrote:

Bill wrote:

In other bad news, Jet and Powermatic were bought up in Oct/2013:

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/wo...h_your_sistem?

Why is that automatically "bad news"?

Do you expect to see it result in higher-quality Powermatic products in
the marketplace? Or even equivalent quality?

I certainly wouldn't automatically assume they'll get worse. The new
company may have more money to spend. ...or not, but we can't know
that from the article.

You have to remember that Jet does more than just woodworking. They
have large machines for metal and these are their market lines:

AIR TOOLS
HAND TOOLS
LIFTING SYSTEMS
METALWORKING
SHOP TOOLS
WAREHOUSE & DOCK
WOODWORKING


Gosh, with all of that on their plate, going after SawStop must seem
akin to going after Intel with hopes of a competitive microprocessor design.

Huh? You have it backwards.

The company that bought Delta seems to like to make miter saws. The
world can' have too many of those! ; )

You're making no sense.