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Subject:Re: Dremels
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0500

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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