"foggytown" wrote in message
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Rotozip. Absolutely worthless....
Gave it to my SIL. He was thrilled at the time. I don't think he has ever
used it.

BUT...

I bought a Ryobi laminate trimmer, (rebuilt one to boot) and use it all the
time. I keep waiting for it to burn up, so I can buy a DeWalt laminate
trimmer, but it refuses to cooperate. I chuck up 1/4 bits in it all the
time, especially the round-over bits, and very occasionally, even use it to
trim laminate.

Observation 1: I have six routers. Bosch, Craftsman, and Skil. (I keep
running across old Craftsman routers at auctions and end up picking them up
for $10 and $15) As far as I can tell, they're from the early 80's. They
work perfectly fine. One old boy told me that his wife bought him the
router for Christmas in 1980, and he never used it. "I ain't no
woodworker,". I also got a half-dozen high speed steel bits in the bargain.
I used them once, and then I remembered why I love carbide so much.

Observation 2: Over the years, I've been to hundreds of auctions and
thousands of garage sales. (Other than C-Clamps), I have yet to find any
decent woodworking clamps, other than some rusty old pipe clamps. I know
they sell the hell out of those K-body, but the only thing I can figure is
none of them every make it into an estate sale.

James...