We are a Dolmar dealer and getting good info out of the new Makita/Dolmar has been difficult. We are able to get Dolmar parts and saws out of Dolmar's US distribution center in Georgia, we toyed with the idea of dropping Dolmar due to the uncertainty and hassle but we love their saws so much we re upped with the new Dolmar/Makita, keeping our fingers crossed. We do not have a Dolmar rep, I was told they are gone and we may see a Makita rep who is probably busy calling on ACME Tool sites, and small Dolmar saw shops are likely not on their radar. A couple of things I have been told is that the Dolmar Red is gone in the US so Makita Blue will be the new norm, now what is unclear is if the Dolmar name will still be present on the US saws. Another disturbing issue is Dolmar saws being built at the Makita factory in China. We first noticed the PS-32 started showing up with a "made in China" on the label, I raised hell with our rep that was two years ago. I have since been told the ps-35 is now also being produced at the Makita factory in China and they are now called ps-35C, you now know what the C stands for. As bad as that is I have to admit the ps-32 built at the China factory is twice the saw the Stihl ms-181 is, whats a guy to do? I will post when we get more info!
Today I was putting a HD filter on a new PS-7910 and I thought I would put the compression tester on the saw it was run for about 10 mins at PDI last week. just too make sure it was good for the new owner
