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What each maker does well, and where the saving was made

Nearly every maker here is convincing in one part of the range and unremarkable across the rest — a house that welds excellent uprights may fit the J-cups that mark every bar put in them. These pages say which part, what it costs to stay inside one maker’s fittings once its attachments are the only ones its holes take, and which apparently separate brands turn out to be the same factory under different labels.