Porter Cable not looking good. | Thread profile

I was walking around Lowe's yesterday. They have started receiving the new Porter Cable tools. They have not yet put displays out so I could not see or feel the tools. But they had the old model circular saw next to the new. The old model was $125 the new $59. Combine that with the fact the Black and Decker tools were flushed out and PC now sits in that shelf space. Is the new PC tools...

From what I remember. PC will become the low cost line in place of Black & Decker. Dewalt will now be the top line.

Why have I got an R&R song buzzing through my head...."Another One Bites the Dust"!! It's just another chapter in the dumbing out of the north American consumer by the bean counters. Take a good brand name, cheapen it and fill the coorporate coffers for a few years till people catch on that they're not buying the quality they expected. There's a reason why small cottage industries ...

Anyone who pays $59 for a circular saw and thinks that they are going to be buying a high quality tools deserves what they get. I'm not saying that I like what they're doing to the PC Line but don't blame corporate for dumb consumers who refuse to educate themselves.

Hi Dave, I'm not blaming B&D corporate for consumers who refuse to educate themselves, I'm blaming them for taking away from me, and everyone else, what I've always considered to be a good line of tools. What I am saying negative about B&D corporate is that they are going to be playing on a well established brand name to pull in money from an unexpecting consumer base. The average ...

Anything from Black & Decker: DeWalt, Delta, Porter-Cable is to be avoided at all costs unless one wishes to buy garbage to put in the landfill. Milwaukee has headed into that catagory too. It looks like for me it's used tools only, stationary power tools have already gone throwaway being made in China or Tiawan w/ peanut butter cast iron and cheesy quality motors and controls.

I've never been one who put a lot of faith in a tool based on name alone. As I've stated here before, my shop has a rainbow of colors. I don't see that changing any time soon. My purchases have been and will continue to be based on the merits of each tool, how much I can afford to spend and how much the tool will be used in my shop. The fact that PC's quality is being compromised doesn...

Doesn't look good to me. Hopefully they will keep the current lineup of 690 and 7500 series routers, and their nail guns.

Dam shame if its true. They made some fine routers, saws and planers. I have an old port-a-planer door planer that can't be beat...any other portable planer have a solid carbide spiral head and a stainless sole plate? I guess making good tools and a reasonable profit isn't enough for a corporation like B&D. They have poisoned Delta, now they are crippling Porter Cable and ...

On any of the heavier duty tools I shop and try to find the older, higher quality used tools with brands that have proven themselves over time prior to the deterioration of quality.