I keep getting emails from Harvey Woodworking.

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For the past few weeks, buried among all the political emails asking for money, were ads from Harvey Woodworking.

I never heard of them before. 

I definitely did not ask to be on the email list.

They are selling $5,000.00 table saws with stainless steel cabinets.

The next one I get, I will “unsubscribe”. (When did that become a word??)

Does anyone have a clue on how I stumbled on these people?
https://www.harveywoodworking.com/?...Zc7b0aSzxQ9lZ2QJ-4jn59iU2BXMH-L4aAlUIEALw_wcB

Addendum:  I see that there is some relationship with Bridge City.  But I never contacted Bridge City either.
 
people/companies will sell your data/ info etc. Also the scammers get your data from data breaches.
I get all sorts of stupid emails, I just blocked them and send the to junk mail. But once a scammer gets ahold of yer data he just changes his email and keeps sending ya crap.
 
did you order anything from them or sign up when visiting the website?  Its one weird company.  They have constant sales and different pricing schemes.  You press f5 on the website and get a different price depending on how the wind blows.  Their shipping charges are idiotic too.  They do seem to have nice stuff but pricing and shipping is a big turn off
 
My understanding is that Harvey or whoever their legal entity is, are the folks who bought Bridge City Tools, what 10 years or so ago from the original guys. Harvey sells the big stuff while their Bridge City operation sells the hand tools BCT was known for.
I've bought a few of their BCT items. Very nicely made aluminum products. I haven't had any failures.
The amount of emails they send out, the endless sales every week and weird pricing schemes are annoying.
Too many ways you could have gotten on their list.
 
Holzhacker is correct, Harvey owns BCT.

I own 4 pieces of Harvey equipment, very happy with them.

Leitz makes the blades for Harvey.

Tom
 
Harvey got started making tools for Jet and others and built their business from that experience.  They started their own line of tools under the Harvey name 10+ years ago and also bought out Bridge City tools when John Economaki decided to retire.  They make some really nice tools - dust collectors, table saws, bandsaws, lathes, etc.  Agree they get very promotional in their emails.  They do cross promote from their Harvey list and Bridge City tools list so that may have been how you started receiving them.
 
It seems to me that they use the e-mail promotions to load balance their inventory and cash flow, ensuring a certain minimum amount of business for a given period of time --- I worry that it's counter-productive, but I have to admit that one of the sales on the Jointmaker Pro got me to put in an order, and I'm waiting now for the stand to be on sale.
 
There are some sets of data that have been collected that suggests your excessive emails are counter-productive.

And the there is stupidly being presented as “knowledge”.

I asked google, “Are you sending too many marketing emails”?

Lots of replies.

The dumbest (in my humble opinion) presented as “data” the opinions of several marketing professionals.  But none seemed to conduct testing to measure the results.

Harbor Freight sends weekly emails, but since each one features a new product, I accept that as “news”.

Harvey is trying to sell me a $5,000.00 table saw made from stainless steel.  Not the saw itself, just the surrounding cabinet is stainless steel.  How many of you have rusting saw cabinets?  Not me.
 
smorgasbord said:
Cast iron top rust is a thing in some parts of the US.
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I misread part of their description.  Their table tops are listed as “cast iron”, with an  electroless nickel coating.

While nickel plating is a very soft surface and would wear very quickly as a table top coating, the electroless nickel is treated with Phosporous and can achieve a near-file-hardness of 50 - 70 on the Rockwell C scale.

Electroless nickel, unlike conventional nickel plating, applies in almost 100% uniform coating thickness that is controllable in the process.  So things like miter slots and threaded holes can be coated after machining and still retain function. 

But do not confuse electro-less nickel with conventional nickel plating.  Conventional nickel plating does not apply evenly, and is very soft and subject to wear. 

My below ground basement, where my table saw resides, is fairly damp all year long and is unheated.  Apparently, I use my table saw just enough to keep it rust free.  Infrequently used tools, shut away in steel tool boxes have not fared as well. 

As an aside, cast stainless steel would not make a good table top.  It does not play well with other metals and any fence or miter gage would have issues with it.

The electroless nickel, which Harvey calls “TiN” coated, sounds fine.

Your machinery only needs to be a couple of degrees warmer than the ambient air to minimize rust.

The rust usually occurs when moisture in the air condenses on the colder cast iron. 

We used to run a small light bulb under equipment to provide the needed heat.  That was an inefficient way to heat the machinery. 

They make heating elements with sticky film that provides heat-only (no wasted electricity generating light).  These are cheap and draw little electricity.  Many options.  But most are very small.  I did not search for larger ones.
https://www.google.com/search?q=film plate adhesive pad&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m
 
It seems to me that Harvey got you to read their email right down to the coating on the metal, threads etc.  lol that has to be worth the mailing for them.
 
Vondawg said:
It seems to me that Harvey got you to read their email right down to the coating on the metal, threads etc.  lol that has to be worth the mailing for them.
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[big grin] [big grin]
 
smorgasbord said:
Cast iron top rust is a thing in some parts of the US.
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And for us in OZ, we have very humid areas all over the country that will rust fresh steel overnight.
 
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