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[Swingman]

Just put a comma between pretty and efficient.

[Bill]

Living in Houston must be alot like living in Hollywood!

[Mike M]

So true, working as an electrical contractor I easily got 80K out of a set of brakes, while probably having one of the heavier loaded trucks. If you got 40K out of the employees you did well. Most common reason was they did a crappy brake job and always did a better job on mine. Even while showing them an obviously over heated set of roors. I so don't miss having employees, at least know I know who to chew out.

Mike M

[Mike M]

Was lookiing at a friends pictures from one of our white water raft trips. I had to ask who the guy with the love handles and the bald spot on the back of his head was.

Some times the truth sucks.

Mike M

[Leon]

You might start by asking Swingman why he switched from a Bosch ROS to a Rotex.

With dust collection being equal to what you have, the Rotex set to aggressive mode will just about keep up with a belt sander with lots more control.

Take your ROS sander and a rough cut piece of wood to your local Festool dealer and ask to compare the two in your own hands. Use the Rotex in normal and aggressive mode. For some of us time is money.

[Leon]

I shave in the shower, no mirror.

[Leon]

Speaking of Hollywood..... Jay Leno perfectly described Hollywood in four words.

High school with money.

[Leon]

Punk shoe washion has never been my strong .................

[Bill]

I went to a high school that felt like that. Some students wore fancy clothes and drove new cars, and some of us didn't! Those 4 words bring back a lot of memories!

[Swingman]

Ayup ... almost immediately gave the Bosch away, and, until you mentioned it, plumb forgot I indeed have a belt sander, I think?

[Swingman]

Not quite, Bill Whittle sets that straight in the first two sentences:

[woodchucker]

Awesome...

[krw]

No, it doesn't make a lot of sense. As Bill pointed out recently, I can't figure out why all of the stores keep a hundred square feet of their expensive floor space full router table tops, either.

That's a great idea, in theory. The problem with theories is that reality keeps getting in the way.

[krw]

No, I got you. I was just 'splainin' my situation.

[krw]

Sure. Same when I was in high school, though few parents were stupid enough to buy their kids new cars (there were a few). When my son was in high school, one of the two-doctor-families bought the 16YO brat a ZR1 for his 16th birthday. A few weeks later, after a fight with his GF, he launched it into the top of a tree. He was airborne for around

150'.

I had to tell my wife that ditty. Her response was that "he doesn't care who's hand he bites, anymore". ;-)

[Leon]

On 12/9/2013 6:31 PM, [e-mail] wrote: snip

Whom ever is indicating that the mark up on the Festool product line is less than desirable probably is not seeing the actual cost and or profit once the smoke clears. Long ago when I ran the parts departments for our Olds and Isuzu franchises my counter men saw a mark up from dealer cost. That cost was not the actual cost, it was a base to start with, a value to place on the inventory. What I was actually paying was considerable below published cost. That is where the real profit came in as it only required me to place a planed stock order with no need to pay a commission to an employee. Basically the value of the inventory was much greater than the book cost of the inventory. That is part of the profit that the salesman and or many store managers do not see. Large franchises are often supplied by a company owned ware house. When you can place a million dollar order for a particular product line you see much deeper discounts. then you distribute that product to your array of stores at book cost. The corporate boys do the actual purchasing of the product, read that as what the corporation is actually paying for what the store orders, from the manufacturer and they pay well below what the store uses as its cost. Unless the manager or salesman is actually writing a check to pay for the monthly purchases he really does not know what the actual profit is for the corporation. He is only seeing the profit that he is making over published cost.

Well yes but with the inventory systems that have been around for several decades now it is a lot easier to do that when you had to control your inventory manually vs letting the computer work within your criteria. I was turning my automotive parts inventories 5~6 times a year, much to GM's dismay. They really wanted me to keep a 90 day supply on hand at any given point.