Poor quality drill bits

Dave,

There lies your problem. Dewalt were born in the US in 1924 bought by our old friend B&D in 1960. They were never German.

Though most of the Dewalt stuff can trace it's parentage back to Elu which WAS German

Edited By JasonB on 04/09/2023 13:28:25

Thanks again, Jason. Too late now for Trend though; I have already ordered the other ones from GBR Engineering, and they have been dispatched.

Odd that the main Trend website does not list the spares, or direct us to the other website.

But anyway; at £20 PLUS VAT for a minimum pack of 5 drill bits of only one size from Trend, I would have had to spend about £50 at Trend to obtain the two sizes I needed. I have just spent a total of £10.49 including VAT and 1st class postage, for 2 of one size and three of the other from GBR. So I am afraid there was simply no contest.

Trend are good, but they need to be a little more competitive.

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Edited By John Doe 2 on 04/09/2023 13:36:45

However,

From your link it appears any German parentage including the factory, was phased out before 2001.

In 1992 Black & Decker introduced the brand Marke deWalt, which up until then had only been rederved for radial arm saws, for the field of professional power tools. The power tool, which has been distributed in Europe under the brand ELU, have become increasingly similar in construction to the deWalt models.

In 2001 the brand ELU has been completely replaced by deWalt and the former production site in Europe has been closed.

edited for babbling...

Edited By Ady1 on 04/09/2023 14:25:57

The old green and orange radial arm saws were what carried the DeWalt name, I had one. B&D bought them out. They also did the planer thicknesser in the same livery

The handheld powertools were Elu then became Dewalt when B&D started to use the Dewalt name on the handheld and portable stuff and colour changed from grey to yellow in the late 90s

Look at the commonly used Elu MOF177e which was the industry standard (Euro plunge type not US fixed type) and compare that to the Early Dewalt 625 router and they were the same except colour of the plastic

Porta-cable (US) which was also bought by B&D will have added something to the parentage of the later tools and the fixed body routers that are now yellow but still not as popular here as in the US

Edited By JasonB on 04/09/2023 14:38:15

For info, Black and Decker have or did have until recently a drill manufacturing facility in Bushellberg (I think that's how you spell it ) in Germany for many years. I worked for B & D for over 20 years as factory manager manufacturing accessories and DeWalt power tools in the UK, US, Italy and lastly in China. I have been retired 10 years now so not sure if the factory in Germany is still open. I was very good friends with their plant manager.

By the way the factory in China produced many B&D power tools and Accessories plus DeWalt power tools and quality was exceptional.

Alan