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Date:         Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Dremels
Comments: To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <20021103.125444.1496.1.wilden1@juno.com>
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At 01:54 PM 11/3/2002, Stan Wilder wrote:
>Rotozip seems to capture the market that a standard router with a panel
>pilot bit was performing thirty years before they put spurs on a drill
>bit and gave it a new name.


Sure -- but lighter and cheaper and doesn't tie up your router.  Do they
really have a patent on the bits?  They don't seem to differ much from a
skinny spiral-cut  router bit (I'm holding one that was made in '63 or '68,
hard to read the stamp), or an end mill with a pilot.


david


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