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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
- Subject: Re: Electric drills
- In-Reply-To: parnass@cbnewse.cb.att.com's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:04:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <DRAND.92Nov19114632@spinner.osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Nov17.210929.6854@osf.org> <1992Nov19.030404.25804@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:46:32
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- In article <1992Nov19.030404.25804@cbnewse.cb.att.com> parnass@cbnewse.cb.att.com (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) writes:
-
- In article <1992Nov17.210929.6854@osf.org>,
- drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
-
- > .... As an aside, the salesman at HD insisted that
- > DeWalt is not B&D professional warmed over....
-
- I don't believe that salesman based on my observations of the
- tools, the DeWalt & B&D catalogs I have, and what has already been
- published in the woodworking press.
-
- BTW, there's a new DeWalt biscuit joiner out and it got a
- good review in the Dec 1992 WOOD magazine. To complicate
- matters, WOOD's tool reviews often contradict my own
- experience :-)
-
- Of course, I didn't say I believed him, I just repeated what
- he said :) . This very same Home Depot was selling B&D Pro and
- the B&D Pro equipment looked just like the DeWalt stuff,
- excepting the labels and yellow handles. I do like the DeWalt
- though, and I think changing the name was an excellent marketing
- ploy on the part of B&D, who used to make fine tools way back when.
-
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- Douglas S. Rand <drand@osf.org> OSF/Motif Dev.
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