Re: Anyone have a good experience with Black & Decker lately
From: willshak (willshak_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:01:10 -0500
On 12/29/2004 11:18 PM US(ET), Fred took fingers to keys, and typed the
following:
>No kidding! I thought GE still made them.
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B&D bought GE's small appliance division, not the large appliance
division. The small appliances are probably still made in the former GE
plants with former GE workers.
>"rae baker" <rae.baker@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:41D2DD2C.1A89A1BD@earthlink.net...
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>>They bought GE appliances a few years ago and since then it has been
>>down hill.
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>>CJT wrote:
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>>>Fred wrote:
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>>>>In my experience over the past 5 years or so, Black & Decker haven't
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>made a
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>>>>decent electric tool/appliance. I have bought one of their small
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>drills,
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>>>>then returned it when the motor seized up after 2 months. The
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>replacement
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>>>>worked for a year, then the motor developed an open circuit. Same for
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>a
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>>>>small jig saw -- the blade moved up and down at about a 5-degree angle
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>off
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>>>>vertical. The same for a small electric screwdriver.
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>>>>The company must have been taken over by some Wall Street group to
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>suck the
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>>>>assets out of it, I don't know. Their stuff used to be quite good,
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>but now
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>>>>I wouldn't touch any of their stuff, sorry to say.
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>>>>Fred
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>>>I quit buying their stuff long ago.
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-- Bill
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