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Ikea has acquired TaskRabbit to gain an army of people that can assemble other people's furniture:
Ikea, the Swedish home goods retailer, said on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire TaskRabbit, a company known for, among other things, sending tool-wielding workers to rescue customers befuddled by build-it-yourself furniture kits.
Ikea said that it had signed an agreement to acquire the privately held TaskRabbit but declined to say how much it would pay. TaskRabbit will continue to operate independently once the deal closes, expected in October.
TaskRabbit uses its online marketplace to connect 60,000 freelance workers, or "taskers," with people looking to hire someone to do chores like furniture assembly, moving and handyman fixes. In their listings, workers specify their hourly rates.
"In a fast-changing retail environment, we continuously strive to develop new and improved products and services to make our customers' lives a little bit easier," said Jesper Brodin, chief executive of Ikea. "Entering the on-demand, sharing economy enables us to support that."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:07PM
For your fixed dado, maybe you can have it re-sharpened to cut a slightly narrower groove?
I'm used to adjustable dado sets -- either:
+ Two full saw blades with 2-tooth "chipper" blades sandwiched in between. Set overall width with very thin shims in the stack, sometimes as thin as a piece of paper.
+ "Drunk saw" -- dial the amount of wobble before tightening the blade on the arbor, then test to confirm actual cutting width. The old one I have covers about 1/4" up to 1"+.
As a general comment, I don't see the point of a fixed-width dado blade for home use--even when plywood came in inch dimensions, it varied a little, so the width of cut needed to be tweaked.
Maybe it makes sense for a furniture factory, where the incoming material is subject to inspection so the thickness is highly controlled? And where the shop super wants to keep the workers from mucking around with adjustments...