Subject: Re: Jet JMD-18PF Mill/Drill -- Opinions Please.

From: [email-masked] (PnP Nolan)
Date: 21 Sep 1996 08:20:31 -0400

Perhaps you should read my article in the current issue of Home Shop
Machinist for my experience with a JET lathe. So much for Swiss quality if
they really are owned by a Swiss company.

Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Lewis)
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:55:38 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
>they really are owned by a Swiss company.

Thanks, Peter, for submitting it to them, and kudos to them for
printing an honest review. I have generally given up on magazine
product reviews as they seem to be influenced by the size of the
advertiser's budget. In some magazines, I have seen the product
reviewed in editorial space directly adjacent to the advertisment.
Perhaps this will signal a new direction for HSM.

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Lewis)
Date: 23 Sep 1996 12:13:41 -0700

>they really are owned by a Swiss company.

Thanks, Peter, for submitting your experience to them, and kudos to
them for printing an honest review. I have generally lost faith in
magazine product reviews, as the objectivity of said review seems to
be inversely proportional to the size of the advertiser's budget. Some
magazine publishers place the review on the same page as the
advertisement. I hope HSM will continue with objective reviews as this
is genuinely useful information.

[If my previous, albeit cancelled, post escaped to your site, I did
not intend to imply that HSM was one of those who had objectivity
problems. But my comment could have been read that way.]
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