On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:41:33 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 7:16:03 PM UTC-7, Phil Kangas wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message

You can open up the Dremel and swap the two brush wires to
get
it to rotate CCW -- but this may increase the chances of
the collet
unscrewing.

All air driven die grinders turn CW from the users
perspective.

All the ones I've seen do (that's how you want 'em for a right hand
twist drill). But, it means a lot of accurate grinder-cutoff operations
fling sparks onto my best full-face-shield.


and burn little holes in my shirt, not to mention the smell of singed
chest hair; maybe not so much with dremel, but getting there.

All die grinder burrs are intended for CW rotation. Why
would a Dremel turn the other way? There's something
fishy here....

You want the cutter to push the work into a fixed item (a fence); you can't see
through the fence, so holding a Dremel in your right hand, and with the work on a table
with nothing blocking your view, there's NO fence there. If the wheel spun CCW
instead of CW, you could view the cut and the wheel would push the work back
against a fence without blocking the view.

And the full-face-mask would accumulate fewer flyspecks.