DM Italia?

[elli_bag]

Hi,
Does anyone have any experience with this company? specifically the "combination voyager ts" (can't post a link, but google gives the right result)

Thanks!

 

[RogerP]

Can't help but it does look nice.

Here's the link for anyone else ...

http://www.dmitaliasrl.com/co.uk/products/combination_voyager_separate.php

 

[heimlaga]

I have learned the Damatomaccine machines are made in China and only rebranded in Italy. However I have never seen one in reality so I don't know what the quality is like.

There are some very dissatissfied buyers posting on the varios forums telling horror stories about bad quality and unobtainable spare parts. It would be interresting to know whether those stories are true or just ordinary internetbullshit floating around.

 

[JakeS]

I have learned the Damatomaccine machines are made in China and only rebranded in Italy. However I have never seen one in reality so I don't know what the quality is like.

I'd have little trouble believing this, since the sliding table and the crown guard on the model linked to above look absolutely identical to the ones on my Axminster TS-200. Just painted green around the edges!

(In fact, this one looks nearly identical all around, but for a different extrusion used on the fence and rails and a different insert plate: http://www.dmitaliasrl.com/co.uk/produc ... er_sc1.php )

 

[heimlaga]

On their homepage DM state:
"After an Italian project and after being verified by our own team, DM ITALIA manufactures its products abroad so that it can guarantee maximum quality for minimum costs, providing its customers up-to-date products, efficient and of best quality for convenient prices."

As I understand it this would imply that the machines are manufactured in a low cost country. Probably China. The question is what DMs specifications are like. They could just specify manufacturing a certain type of machine at lowest possible cost or they could be strict technical quality specifications according to Italian made drawings.
It is totally upossible for us to know with the little information provided.

 

[elli_bag]

Thanks Everyone!!
I don't think I can afford a cheap tool at this stage.
I found contradicting reviews in different forums (searching for "Damatomacchine" gives much more results than "DM Italia"), some saying they have the tool and are happy with it, others that they had to replace a lot of parts and improvise around imperfections of what they got.
As the table saw is the one tool I want to have that I can count on to be precise, I think I'll go for something that has more consistency than this..