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Originally posted by Dibbler
Wow, I didn't know that. I assumed that Dewalt was a company like Milwakee or something. Was their name so tarnished by the crap tools that they had to make up a new company?
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No, DeWalt has been around for a long time. Black and Decker bought them out a while ago. Black and Decker's industrial line used to be the shit, the rest of their stuf was the same as it is now, lower end consumer stuf. When they bought DeWalt they converted their industrial line over to the DeWalt brand, during the transition, you would find many of the Black and Decker Industrial and DeWalt built the same. I havn't seen any of the industrial series around anymore, so I think they totally phased it out, I could be wrong though.
As far as skill goes, their worm drive is still the most widely used professional worm drive saw on the market. It's only because it's the industry standard that it's still around. They got bought out by Bosch, so Bosch makes all of the high end professional tools and Skill is the consumer line of the company now. I noticed that the Bosch saws are improved Mag77s, so who knows, they might eventually take over the market and Skill might even kill theirs.