On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:48:53 -0800, Winston
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:25:18 -0800,
wrote:

John G wrote:

(...)

They both have their place and it depends on your skill at doing fine work.

I concur! If I had nothing but the reinforced wheels,
I would have been working on that project *much* longer.
OTOH I was thankful to be working outside because the
fog of abrasive released by the standard cut-off discs
is obnoxious in a closed room.

What, you have no shop vac or DC to play with?

That'd work. Most the time I don't bother though.

My solar powered vent fan clears the room amazingly
quickly! Luckily I don't have to use a cut off tool
in an enclosed space often.

OK, cool. (absolutely no pun intended in February)


--Winston-- 'Somebody make an alignment jig to speed
up the process of mounting cutting discs?

Do you mean to mount discs to arbors or arbors to the Dremel?

Discs to arbors. Ya need a hand to hold the arbor, a hand
to hold the disc, a hand to hold the screw and driver.

An elastomer-coated gadget to hold the arbor and disc in
alignment with a screwdriver constrained to the center of
the arbor would be really neat for the non-Shivas among us.

Aw, ya semiarticulated wuss. No extra Shiva arms necessary.

You hold the screw and washer with your thumb and forefinger, the
arbor with your little and 4th fingers, and steady the disc with the
middle finger and 4th, leaving the other hand to hold the screwdriver
and screw it! I used to be the GOTO guy at the shop to wedge my whole
arm into the least accessible places to start a left handed screw
upside down while holding the other parts with other fingers, all
sight-unseen.


Extra points for magnetizing the screwdriver to hold the fastener.

Or something else entirely? (Yeah, I'm onto you.

Yup. You are Larry, all right. 00

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