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To: mosaicwolf

I remember that relatively high Dollar and low D-Mark period well. Had a lot of distributors adding German lines equivalent (hand and power tools - they were better quality, to be honest) to our US products to take advantage. At that time (mid 80’s) the DM/$ exchange rate was hovering around 3 to 1. If they re-launch the D-Mark it might start out at par or better. Welcome to Interesting Times.


44 posted on 10/26/2011 12:16:30 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: katana

I own a tool and die business, back in the early and mid 80’s we were able to afford 4 nice Maho machining centers made in Germany, some of the best mills ever made. A few years later we had to go Japanese and bought Kitamura because the Maho’s had gone astronomical in price.


61 posted on 10/26/2011 1:04:15 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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