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Diminishing Product Life
While going through the Festool products catalogue (tool
porn of the quality Lee Valley puts out for Pseudo Neanders), I noticed their products are warranted for 3 years. That got me thinking about how things have changed over the years. I still have and still use the Craftsman hand drill and the Skil worm drive circular saw I bought in 1971 and haven't managed to lose - yet. I looked around the shop at my tailed hand tools and have to wonder if any of the newer ones will still be in usable in 10 years, let alone 30. While the versatility of the new tailed hand tools have gotten better over the years, and the prices, adjusted for inflation, have gone down, I wonder if they, like so many other things, they've become disposable/ consumables. If so, what is the grand kid, or great grand kid going to inherit and maybe actually find useful and valuable? charlie b ps - to paraphrase Jimmy Carter, I have lust in my heart for Festool's saber saw AND plunge router and one of their cute little vacuum cleaner things |
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