On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 10:24:50 AM UTC-6, graham wrote:
On 2018-02-08 12:19 PM, Electric Comet wrote:


not a bad deal compared with what 600 will get you for a new lathe

https://sacramento.craigslist.org/tl...488944396.html

General was a great company making superb woodworking machinery at their
foundry in Drummondville, Quebec. The only N.American competitor on
quality in those days was Powermatic - Delta was almost as good.
Now General is no more and the Powermatic foundry has also closed (AIUI).

Its been 20 to 30 years since the North American companies made American/Canadian tools. Think Powermatic was the first to go to Taiwan and/or China. Followed fairly quickly by Delta. Early to late 1990s when this happened.. General, not sure what happened to them. They were always tiny compared to the other two. Not sure if ownership changed 30 years ago and the new owner immediately closed all Canadian built machines and moved everything instantly to China. Or maybe General stayed with its old owners and they saw the writing on the walls and followed Delta and Powermatic to China or Taiwan. But for all of them, its been 20-30 years since any of them made North American machines. Its all Chinese now.