[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 83, Issue 48

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 12/21/2010 8:03 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> peter fels&  phoebe palmer wrote:
>> I like those massive old tools. I have an ancient milwalkee 3/4" drill
>> motor that has a 5 # flywheel just benind the gear cluster.
>> It's a real wrist buster..Almost tossed a friend off the top of a 20'
>> extension ladder.
>> I took it apart a few years ago,  to replace the bearings..but none were
>> available..neither SAE nor Metric fit.
>> Wasn't all that bad, guess i'll put it back together.
>> Last new tools i got from milwaukee were over engineered and under built
>> POS. ( what's the plural?)...made in china.  sigh.
>> But truth be told, when i do have to run a big auger through a timber..i
>> go for my old hole-hog.
> It is ghastly to witness the plunge Milwaukee took.  I used to love some
> of their stuff, except the belt sanders which worked about as badly as I
> would expect had Obammy designed it.  Never could figure out how they
> managed such a horrid design.
>
> Most of the tool world appears at times to be going to hell in a hand
> basket.
My theory about that last,  is that we end up with a biased view
  because we only see the survivors in the old ones
Industrial quality tools, which are more expensive, are still pretty good

Yer friend "Obammy' ( ignoring the racist undertone in that moniker)
is the best educated, most emotionally mature, least ego bloated
president i can remember....and i'm a geezer now.
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