Subject: Re: Jet Benchtop Planer

From: [email-masked] (Mark Hodges)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:24:25 -0800

My local dealer (who handles Jet and Delta) says that both of the new
planers (from Delta and Jet) are coming from the same factory, and so far
both are having quality control problems, so no release date.

Mark

In article <[email-masked]>, Kent FItzgerald
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> >Any comments on the Jet 12" benchtop planer would be welcomed. I am
> >considering that unit, based on price and features, it looked like it
> >was a good buy at the William Alden site at $319... is there any better
> >benchtop unit out there for less than $400?
> 
> 
> Depends which Jet 12" planer. What I didn't know until about 10 minutes
> ago is that there are two different models. The one that Wm. Alden has on
> their web site is the JWP-12, which is recognizable by the large height
> adjustment handwheel on the side. 
> 
> According to the Wood magazine review (Nov. '96), there is supposed to be
> a new Jet model, the JWP-12 4P (4 post), which has the height crank on
> top and a smooth bed (no rollers). This was one of the better rated
> machines in the test, but it doesn't appear to be on the market yet. In
> fact, Jet doesn't even acknowledge that it exists in their catalog.
> 
> Confused? I am. Then there's the much-rumored new Delta, which just might
> be out within this century....
> 
> Kent
> 
> ______________________________________________
> Kent Fitzgerald           [email-masked]
> Center for Neural Science, New York University

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From: "Todd F. Carney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:56:00 -0800

> both are having quality control problems, so no release date.

I once worked in a factory that made fans for two different brands.  We
had 
different standards of quality for each brand.  One was a "premium"
brand and 
the standards (fit, finish, and quality of materials) were much higher
than 
the other brand.  The standards we used, of course, were dictated by the
companies for 
whom we made the fans.  We had no standards and no designs of our own. 
We'd 
happily make junk fans or just as happily make fine ones.  We made money
off 
both.  Naturally, those of us who worked there knew which to buy
ourselves.

Moral: the factory is irrelevant.  It's the brand that counts.

One other comment: dealers are rarely in a position to know such arcane
(and 
often secret) details such as were the equipment they sell is made.  At
the 
fan factory, we were told that such information was a trade secret 
and proprietary and that if we divulged it we'd be fired.  Now I can see
a 
sales rep for Jet *claiming* his planer was made in the same factory as 
Delta's, but can you imagine a Delta rep divulging such a thing?  

Moral: sales reps sometimes stretch the truth, and dealers sometimes
pretend 
to know more than they really do.

Todd Carney
Ashland, Oregon

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From: Curt Harms <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 04:53:12 -0800

> > be out within this century....
I would bet a Unisaw that Jet and Delta don't come from the same
factory.
However, did you look at Grizzly's 12" planer? They've gotten good
reviews.  Delta's vaporware planer is supposed to condense in April