{"id":65,"date":"2004-07-27T22:35:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T05:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:09","slug":"porter-cabledelta-to-be-bought-by-black-decker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/porter-cabledelta-to-be-bought-by-black-decker\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter-Cable\/Delta to be bought by Black &#038; Decker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out that B&#038;D is buying out Pentair&#8217;s tool group, which includes DeVilbiss (compressors), Oldham (sawblades), and the venerable Delta and Porter-Cable brands.  Lots of links to news stories <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=%22black%20%26%20Decker%22%20pentair%20&#038;num=30&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wn\">here<\/a>, with a bit of analysis of what it might mean to woodworkers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkersjournal.com\/ezine\/toolpreview.cfm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf I was to speculate wildly on the results&#8230; in my experience, a purchase like this often results in a &#8220;slide to the median&#8221;.  PC &#038; Delta might be a little faster to pick up on cutting-edge innovations (like laser guides), something the B&#038;D group has been excellent about.  Their quality may also sag a bit as they start trying to trim inefficiencies, parts sharing with B&#038;D for example.  The B&#038;D group may similarly improve quality as the groups get closer together.  For the moment, though, I see no short term impacts on tool buying.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(I didn&#8217;t even realize Delta and PC were co-owned!)<br \/>\n(I believe that B&#038;D is an American company, as PC &#038; Delta are.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out that B&#038;D is buying out Pentair&#8217;s tool group, which includes DeVilbiss (compressors), Oldham (sawblades), and the venerable Delta and Porter-Cable brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}