but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:20:04 GMT, "The3rd Earl Of Derby"
wrote:

but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too bad
for the price.

Hope you got a couple of the accessory boxes as well. Had one since
last year and very good value.

EricP wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:20:04 GMT, "The3rd Earl Of Derby"
wrote:

but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't
too bad for the price.

Hope you got a couple of the accessory boxes as well. Had one since
last year and very good value.

Yes I'll get one of those after xmas,they had quite a huge amount of those.
The CC has been moving a bit fast this past week the plastic has melted.
:-)

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?
-
Lawrence
Nottingham, UK

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:54:39 -0000, "Lawrence Milbourn"
wrote this (or the missive included this):


"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?

Brush your teeth?

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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:12:28 +0000, Ron Clark wrote:

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:54:39 -0000, "Lawrence Milbourn"
wrote this (or the missive included this):


"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?

Brush your teeth?

Or even drilling teeth. Get some Isopon for doing the subsequent
fillings.

--
Frank Erskine

"Ron Clark" wrote in message
news
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:54:39 -0000, "Lawrence Milbourn"
wrote this (or the missive included this):


"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?

Brush your teeth?

--
I use one for cutting model 00 gauge rail track and drilling track pin holes

in 481362 20051223 195439 "Lawrence Milbourn" wrote:
"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?
-
Lawrence
Nottingham, UK

There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

I can go months without getting mine out of the box then suddenly it's
a life-saver.

I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?
-
Lawrence
Nottingham, UK


There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

I can go months without getting mine out of the box then suddenly it's
a life-saver.

Seconded...

Like when I was trying to remove the fan on the boiler to replace with
new. One of the stainless steel screws was completely seized, ended up
rounding the head, so tried drilling it out - no drills hard enough for
stainles steel (go figure?!), ended up using a cutting disk in the
dremel (well, Performance-Pro look-alike) to grind the head off.

Amazing tools for the 1% of the time that you need them.

Lawrence Milbourn wrote:

"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for ?15 it ain't too
bad
for the price.

I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited. I am
sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it for?

What it can be handy for.
High speed is more appropriate for small drills.
Makes it easy to drill hundreds of pilot holes, while being significantly
lighter than many other options, which can be handy in awkward locations.

Generally, it's very handy for finishing operations, rather than bulk
material removal.

However.

In many cases, because of the samll size, and possibility to get into awkward
corners, you can avoid the difficulties of doing things the conventional way.

For example - rather than using a chisel to tidy up rough edges in a square
hole, the dremel can be used to do this, with a carbide burr on the end.

It may not be faster - but there is no risk of splintering, no shocks while
it's being done, and may well be easier with poor access.

In general, there are few tasks that the dremel is the best tool to use,
if the bit of the workpiece that you want to get to is easily accessible, and
easy to put on the bench.
If it's not, and you'd like to save time by not dissasembling somehting
before working on it, then the dremel may be hugely quicker.

There are exceptions to the 'no big jobs' rul, for example the sanding drums
can be very, very effective on mouldings with caked-on-paint.

Bob Martin wrote:
in 481362 20051223 195439 "Lawrence Milbourn"
wrote:
"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message
news
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't
too bad
for the price.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite


I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited.
I am sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it
for? -
Lawrence
Nottingham, UK

There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

I can go months without getting mine out of the box then suddenly it's
a life-saver.

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which is
inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

In article ,
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

I can go months without getting mine out of the box then suddenly it's
a life-saver.

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which is
inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

Not sure how a dremel will help there - it's larger than both.

--
*Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?

Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

I can go months without getting mine out of the box then suddenly
it's a life-saver.

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which
is inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

Not sure how a dremel will help there - it's larger than both.

Heh!
--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
[snip]

Not sure how a dremel will help there - it's larger than both.

Visualise this...

10.30 this morning I got a phonecall from a friend who asked me could I
repair for a leak in a rad pipe for his brother, no problem I says.
On getting there he told me he'd been laying laminate flooring and the
floorboard near the wall was a bit raised so hammered a couple of nails in
to get it level, silly sod had also hammered a nail in the center of the FB
which went straight through the rad pipe.
Had the nail just gone through the top of the pipe then a half piece of
copper pipe would had sufficed and soldered on to the pipe, but the nail
went straight through top & bottom.

Now with the pipes being so close to the wall there was no chance of an
hacksaw or cutter as the pipe was the nearest one to wall with the return
close to the feed? so this is where the dremel came in handy. :-)

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:
"Lawrence Milbourn" wrote:
"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote...
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it ain't
too bad for the price.

I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited.
I am sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it
for? -

There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which is
inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

I thought I ought to have something like that, so I too
bought one from Aldi, the one with the flexible shaft
drive, and a box of bits to go with the ones already in
it. Like Mr. Milbourn, I can't think of a use for it,
but at the price it may come in for something... dunno
what though. The pipe example above means the tube must
be less than 15mm from something, else a cutter would
do the job.... what else could they be used for?

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:11:16 UTC, Chris Bacon
wrote:

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which is
inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

I thought I ought to have something like that, so I too
bought one from Aldi, the one with the flexible shaft
drive, and a box of bits to go with the ones already in
it. Like Mr. Milbourn, I can't think of a use for it,
but at the price it may come in for something... dunno
what though. The pipe example above means the tube must
be less than 15mm from something, else a cutter would
do the job.... what else could they be used for?

It *was* a 15mm pipe, but hard up against something....hence the Dremel.

I last used mine for cutting back laths where they crossed a stud...I
was boarding part of a wall, and for complicated reasons (it had been
part boarded by someone else) I needed to cut the laths off as
described. The Dremel did it well, and fast.

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Chris Bacon wrote:
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:
"Lawrence Milbourn" wrote:
"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote...
but not at dremels prices so I bought the aldi one for £15 it
ain't too bad for the price.

I was given a dremel as a birthday present and I got quite excited.
I am sure it is going to be really useful, but what will I use it
for? -

There are things a Dremel will do that nothing else will do.
You'll know when the need arises!

Like when you need to cut a copper pipe under the floorboards which
is inacessible with a pipe cutter or hacksaw, :-)

I thought I ought to have something like that, so I too
bought one from Aldi, the one with the flexible shaft
drive, and a box of bits to go with the ones already in
it. Like Mr. Milbourn, I can't think of a use for it,
but at the price it may come in for something... dunno
what though. The pipe example above means the tube must
be less than 15mm from something, else a cutter would
do the job.... what else could they be used for?

How about cutting akward shapes on standard wall tiles ie a square cut on
one corner, say half inch which you couldn't cut on a tile cutter?
Or cut a oblong/square opening in light metal or aluminium or even perspex.
How about using it to sharpen chisels/blades thay have had a slight chunk
taken out of them cos you hit a nail in the joist.
How about polishing a scratched lense on me spectacles :-(
The price was right and it was worth it. :-)

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
I thought I ought to have something like that, so I too
bought one from Aldi, the one with the flexible shaft
drive, and a box of bits to go with the ones already in
it. Like Mr. Milbourn, I can't think of a use for it,
but at the price it may come in for something... dunno
what though. The pipe example above means the tube must
be less than 15mm from something, else a cutter would
do the job.... what else could they be used for?

How about cutting akward shapes on standard wall tiles ie a square cut on
one corner, say half inch which you couldn't cut on a tile cutter?

Um, "abrafile" typr tile saw held in a coping saw frame
works wery well.


Or cut a oblong/square opening in light metal or aluminium or even perspex.

Drill/coping saw....


How about using it to sharpen chisels/blades thay have had a slight chunk
taken out of them cos you hit a nail in the joist.

!!!!!

Bench grinder/(stone or wet'n'dry).


How about polishing a scratched lense on me spectacles :-(

Bad luck.... I haven't fallen over *once* this
Christmas. Only another 8 (? What day is it?) days
to go.....


The price was right and it was worth it. :-)

I tend to agree, although I haven't the faintest idea
when/what for I'll use it. I will carefully go downstairs
now and open the box, and look at the thing.

I wasn't trying to pooh-pooh your ideas above, merely to
mention that I'm not sure what I might use this thing for.
I wonder whether it's got a chuck, or a collet. Might be
(perhaps) useful for porting, or engraving glass...

Any other ideas? I need a work creation scheme (and a
drop more stuff)...

Chris Bacon wrote:
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
I thought I ought to have something like that, so I too
bought one from Aldi, the one with the flexible shaft
drive, and a box of bits to go with the ones already in
it. Like Mr. Milbourn, I can't think of a use for it,
but at the price it may come in for something... dunno
what though. The pipe example above means the tube must
be less than 15mm from something, else a cutter would
do the job.... what else could they be used for?

How about cutting akward shapes on standard wall tiles ie a square
cut on one corner, say half inch which you couldn't cut on a tile
cutter?

Um, "abrafile" typr tile saw held in a coping saw frame
works wery well.


Or cut a oblong/square opening in light metal or aluminium or even
perspex.

Drill/coping saw....


How about using it to sharpen chisels/blades thay have had a slight
chunk taken out of them cos you hit a nail in the joist.

!!!!!

Bench grinder/(stone or wet'n'dry).


How about polishing a scratched lense on me spectacles :-(

Bad luck.... I haven't fallen over *once* this
Christmas. Only another 8 (? What day is it?) days
to go.....


The price was right and it was worth it. :-)

I tend to agree, although I haven't the faintest idea
when/what for I'll use it. I will carefully go downstairs
now and open the box, and look at the thing.

I wasn't trying to pooh-pooh your ideas above, merely to
mention that I'm not sure what I might use this thing for.
I wonder whether it's got a chuck, or a collet. Might be
(perhaps) useful for porting, or engraving glass...

Any other ideas? I need a work creation scheme (and a
drop more stuff)...

You sound like my Mother(God rest her soul), It would take ages to build
the bridge and she'd come along and blow it up. :-)
It is basically an engravers tool.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

In article ,
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
How about cutting akward shapes on standard wall tiles ie a square cut
on one corner, say half inch which you couldn't cut on a tile cutter?

You can do that easily with a wet diamond wheel tile cutter. And rather
more safely.

Or cut a oblong/square opening in light metal or aluminium or even
perspex.

Since it will need filing square you might as well just drill a few holes.
How about using it to sharpen chisels/blades thay have had a
slight chunk taken out of them cos you hit a nail in the joist.

Most would use a bench grinder for this or a coarse stone - it would be
difficult to get a straight edge with a dremel.

How about polishing a scratched lense on me spectacles :-(

And altering the power? ;-)

The price was right and it was worth it. :-)

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