we still have a ton of large, industrial "Rockwell-Delta" equipment in the shops where I work.
Also, some of the process equipment is labeled "Rockwell Automation"

Those are acutually clean room grade tools. Rockwell makes them for industrial facilities like your paper mill and semiconductor fabs where there's intristic safety requirements.

My father works for Intel and has the same Rockwell tools in his fab and the matching tool cleaning machine!

This isn't related to the topic at all, but it's a little something I'd noticed:

Hewlett-Packard
Packard
Packard-Bell
Bell
Bell & Howell

Just this weekend I bought a Rockwell table saw from the local junkyard guy. He's a regular customer, i was wandering around his place and saw it in his shop....next to another saw. I offered, he bit, i bought!


Sam the Rockwell Automation stuff isn't related. They are still an active company and do stuff like PLC (programmable logic controllers) and clean room stuff.

Posted by oddspot Just this weekend I bought a Rockwell table saw from the local junkyard guy. He's a regular customer, i was wandering around his place and saw it in his shop....next to another saw. I offered, he bit, i bought! Sam the Rockwell Automation stuff isn't related. They are still an active company and do stuff like PLC (programmable logic controllers) and clean room stuff.

ah... for us, they do mostly the controls on the roller motors for the paper machines. All that has to be precisely in-synch when they start up a set.

Posted by Samurai ah... for us, they do mostly the controls on the roller motors for the paper machines. All that has to be precisely in-synch when they start up a set.

or like I said, places where my father works, Intel and their multiple fabs.

My father actually said for a while, Rockwell pretty much gave them any tool they wanted when they bought any of their automation products. He has some tungsten based Allen wrenches that are rather funky from them.

Not that it matters, but if you're looking for a notable non-US brand Dowidat and Stahl Wille rate a mention. At least if you're getting grubby for the Germans. Neko.

Posted by Kuroneko Not that it matters, but if you're looking for a notable non-US brand Dowidat and Stahl Wille rate a mention. At least if you're getting grubby for the Germans. Neko.

When I lived in France my father ended up buying Stahl Wille tools along with a Bosch socket set. What was interesting when we moved back to the US, my father broke the ratchet. Knowing Bosch owns Vermont American here, he called them up and asked if they can take warranty on them. To his surprise they said yes as they come from the same plant.

Posted by Kuroneko Not that it matters, but if you're looking for a notable non-US brand Dowidat and Stahl Wille rate a mention. At least if you're getting grubby for the Germans. Neko.

I have some Stahl Wille stuff, it's absolutely lovely. I think it's older than me by about 15 years, too.