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HTML

<table id="ToolingTable">
        <tr>
          <td class="tooling-labels">Tool #</td>
           <td class="tooling-labels">Comments</td>          
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  1 </td>
            <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  2 </td>
           <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  4 </td>
           <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  2 </td>
           <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  2 </td>
          <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  3 </td>
           <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  3 </td>
            <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  4 </td>
          <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>  	
          <td class="tooling-text">  4 </td>
          <td class="tooling-text">0.7500 dia - 2 flute - Endmill</td>
        </tr>
        </table>

JavaScript

var seen = {};
    $("#ToolingTable td").each(function() {
        var td = $(this).clone();
        if(td.not(':input')){
            if(td.not('a.details-link')){
                td.find("td:eq(7)").remove();
                tr.find("td:eq(3)").remove(); 
                tr.find("td:eq(2)").remove();
                var txt = td.text().toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '');;        
                if (seen[txt])
                    $(this).remove();
                else
                    seen[txt] = true;
            }
        }
    });