- 1. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:50:49 -0500
- Well now.... You'll just have to find it now, won't you? ;-) Now you've got a couple hundred guys salivating..... At 10:56 PM 11/30/99 , Duncan120@aol.com was inspired to say: Cheers!
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- 2. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:40:18 -0500 (EST)
- Franco-Americaine de Construction d'Outillage Mecanique. french for "french-american mechanical tool manufacturing". got points in my french class for that. facom owns s-k outright. you'll notice (if
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- 3. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 22:40:56 -0700
- Don't know about the foundries doing the basic blanks, but Snap-On does have its own production facilities (there was one near where I used to work in Massachusetts). Cheers.
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- 4. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 02:01:14 -0500
- Now that you mention it, I have seen this. I should be ordering some more of his "obsolescence" in the next few days myself. A tool company? Don't know, just remember reading it somewhere.... Methin
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- 5. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:26:36 -0500 (EST)
- I looked at his web site last night. his 'obsolescense' stuff is all non-ogv stuff, as fas as I can tell. did you get this, too? I didn't know anybody even kept that stuff around anymore, seems like
- /html/shop-talk/1999-12/msg00017.html (7,661 bytes)
- 6. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:20:14 -0500
- Yeah, it's listed as non-OGV. Don't tell Steve, however, that I've gotten OGV stuff that he thought was non-OGV. Hit and miss but it has happened. They fit really well regardless that I think the non
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- 7. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:47:10 -0800
- What's OGV mean? Thanks. -- Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
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- 8. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 21:55:37 -0500 (EST)
- I forget exactly what "ogv" stands for, I seem to remember it's an acronym in french but the exact words aren't coming. but it refers to the same design as snap-on's "flank drive", or mac's "knuckle
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- 9. Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Hoy" <larryhoy@Prodigy.Net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:55:14 -0700
- out who makes the [Craftsman] hand tools. This is a message I received on another list on this same server, the author seems to know what he is talking about. Larry Hoy == I'm not the final word on
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00245.html (10,023 bytes)
- 10. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Heerschap <Heerschap@eng.kns.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:23:48 -0500
- Interesting... no mention of SK/Facom, my recent favorite. Anyone know the "deal" with them? cmh -- Chris Heerschap - UNIX Systems Mutilator/Postmaster
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- 11. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:29:50 -0500
- FACOM has been around forever. French company, says "American" in the name though I forget the whole acronym. It's now one of the largest tool conglomerates in Europe. SK, I think, is an American com
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- 12. Re: Who makes what tools? (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan120@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:56:37 EST
- << SK, I think, is an American company that recently has had a large part of its stock purchased by FACOM. FACOM also owns (large parts of) USAG (Italian?) and Beissbarth... >> I faxed Facom for a ca
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