Just a nasty rumor folks. The Kadet series is doing quite well for us - we'd be foolish to discontinue it.
The 8" Kadet was an unfortunate anomoly, and was indeed discontinued. With that in mind, you should know that we do our darnedest to provide a 5-year obsolescence plan, as was done with the old Paradigm range.
We hadn't sold many 8" Kadets at the time of discontinuation, so we opted to throw a bunch on our shelf to cover future replacement needs - keeping our customers out of a machine-down situation benefits us all.
The 4" and 6" Kadets haven't even been considered for discontinuation. I would be interested in finding out who started the rumor...