"TURTLE" wrote in message
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Look the tools that you have and look at the age and how well they held
up. Pick the name of the tools you have that you think held up the best
and use that brand.

That will work for some, but some brands have gone the high volume, low
quality route in recent years. B & D, Craftsman, are not the same as their
reputation from a quarter century ago. .


I've come to the conclusion that B & D and Skill run just like the other
if you really take care of them.

One of the woodworking magazines showed the difference between two brands,
Skil and Bosch, that are made by the same company. The bearings in the
Bosch were about twice the size of the cheaper one. The comutator on the
mot has twice the segments. For the guy that uses a router twice a year, it
may be OK, but it is not going to hold up and remain accurate for the
heavier user or for more critical applications.