"JoanD'arcRoast" wrote in message

I have to say that the HF tool is really not bad. I bought two of them
as
some of you might know. I had a brush carbon up and quit working right
at
about 30 hours on one motor. I swapped it for one of the new brushes
that
came with the tool and all was good. The other has over 100 hours of
runtime at maximum speed continuous duty and its still working fine. The
hand piece with 100 + hours is starting to show some slop or side play.
For
a very occasional user who takes care of their tools they might last
their
lifetime. Very likely if they only use it as a foot pedal controlled
hand
held tool. For a commercial shop I suspect downtime for service would
override cost savings, but I have not run a Foredom hand piece or motor
that
hard yet. Even a jewelry shop would probably take months to put that
much
hard use on their motors.



Is this the HF item that looks like a bench grinder?

http://www.harborfreight.com/bench-grinder-with-flex-shaft-43533.html


No. This is the one I am using. It is in a fixed mount on the side of a
mill spindle being used for milling aluminum at full motor speed (speed
control is not used).

http://www.harborfreight.com/flexibl...ver-40432.html