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Default Harbor Freight Rotary Tool

On Jun 6, 3:39*pm, wrote:
On Jun 5, 10:02*pm, "hr(bob) "
wrote:

Today's Harbor Freight add in our Sunday magazine has an 80 pc Rotary
Drill Set for $6.99. *The ad shows a drill and a mess of drills. *Can
I assume that the drill itself is part of the 80 pieces??? *I know the
quality will be typical Harbor Freight, at best, but for the few uses
I would give it I don't need craftsman (or is it craftperson)
quality. *And I don't mean Sear's Craftsman.


If it pictures the drill motor, you get the drill motor.

But like others have said, don't bother. It's only worth about $1.99
on a good day. The motor is weak, fit and finish is poor. It won't
even get your one job done.


Of course, for $6.99 you'd get a bunch of "accessories" for your
Dremel.

There's gotta be more than $6.99 worth of bits, cut-off wheels,
collets, mandrels, etc. if you had to buy them separately.

On a related note, how come there's never any spare collet wrenches
hanging with the Dremel accessories at the home centers? At least not
at mine.

On a related related note, I keep a small flat blade screwdriver in my
Dremel kit. It's much easier to use than the screwdriver end of the
collet wrench for changing the always-shattering cut off wheels and
other mandrel mounted accessories.