Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high speed,
that kind of thing?

On 30 Dec, 00:00, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high speed,
that kind of thing?

Stock up on the acessory kits at 2.49, real dremel cutting discs are
horrifically expensive, you get about 10 in the kit.
Mini angle grinder always at hand , what not to like ;-)

Adam

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high speed,
that kind of thing?


I have one, and also a Dremel.

I only ever use the Dremel, because it seems to be much more powerful
(more torque) but I do use the Aldi attachments with it. I have never
used the flexible drive.

When I bought mine I think the attachments came separately. They were
particularly good value.

Adam Aglionby wrote:
On 30 Dec, 00:00, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high
speed, that kind of thing?

Stock up on the acessory kits at 2.49, real dremel cutting discs are
horrifically expensive, you get about 10 in the kit.
Mini angle grinder always at hand , what not to like ;-)

I've got a Dremel & consider it a waste of space. Cutting discs fall apart
in seconds, no welly at all. Its in a box in the workshop somewhere, might
as well be in the bin.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Adam Aglionby wrote:
On 30 Dec, 00:00, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high
speed, that kind of thing?

Stock up on the acessory kits at 2.49, real dremel cutting discs are
horrifically expensive, you get about 10 in the kit.
Mini angle grinder always at hand , what not to like ;-)

I've got a Dremel & consider it a waste of space. Cutting discs fall
apart in seconds, no welly at all. Its in a box in the workshop
somewhere, might as well be in the bin.

*Waves*

I'll have it!

Si

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I've got a Dremel & consider it a waste of space. Cutting discs fall
apart in seconds, no welly at all. Its in a box in the workshop
somewhere, might as well be in the bin.

My thoughts too. The ads seeing it whipping the top off a nail are very
far from my experience. If you want something to do this sort of thing
easily get a Fein Multi.
I do use a Dremel clone for PCB work etc. So hobby use rather than DIY.

--
*I used up all my sick days so I called in dead

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high speed,
that kind of thing?

http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....le=Die_Grinder


NT

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:22:04 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Adam Aglionby wrote:
On 30 Dec, 00:00, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high
speed, that kind of thing?

Stock up on the acessory kits at 2.49, real dremel cutting discs are
horrifically expensive, you get about 10 in the kit.
Mini angle grinder always at hand , what not to like ;-)

I've got a Dremel & consider it a waste of space. Cutting discs fall apart
in seconds, no welly at all. Its in a box in the workshop somewhere, might
as well be in the bin.

If you're throwing it away, I'll have it!
Bought my Dremel back in the '80s - just a plain old single-speed
26,000 rpm jobby. It's still going strong today in spite of the heavy
use it's had over the years.

I wouldn't advise use of the flexible shaft - if you let go of it for
some reason it'll wrap itself around the nearest object in seconds.
Last time that happened to me it was the mains cord for the Dremel -
the bit managed to chew halfway through the cable before I could hit
the off switch.

A pair of goggles are essential, always.

Regards,



--
Stephen Howard
Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Stephen Howard
saying something like:


I wouldn't advise use of the flexible shaft - if you let go of it for
some reason it'll wrap itself around the nearest object in seconds.
Last time that happened to me it was the mains cord for the Dremel -
the bit managed to chew halfway through the cable before I could hit
the off switch.

Narsty.
If I was using the flexy regularly at a bench, I'd do it via footswitch.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying
something like:


When I bought mine I think the attachments came separately. They were
particularly good value.

This is what prompted me to buy it yesterday - sometime in the past year
I got a box of the attachments, and was waiting for the tools to
re-appear. I was pleasantly surprised to find loads of them there, since
I'd originally gone for a dehumidifier.

Hohum... more impulse purchases.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying
something like:


When I bought mine I think the attachments came separately. They were
particularly good value.

This is what prompted me to buy it yesterday - sometime in the past year
I got a box of the attachments, and was waiting for the tools to
re-appear. I was pleasantly surprised to find loads of them there, since
I'd originally gone for a dehumidifier.


They are good quality too. I was well and truly fed up of paying
Dremel and Minicraft (Black & Decker) prices for attachments when I
first saw them in Aldi. They are of excellent quality (braces himself
for profanity and abuse from certain quarters) and cost a tiny
fraction of Dremel and Minicraft prices.


Hohum... more impulse purchases.


That's what Aldi and Lidl are all about.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Iow, their 160W Combitool.
I just picked one up today - it seems rather good; does anyone
have any do's and don'ts with it? eg, never use the flexy on high speed,
that kind of thing?

Yes. They are rather good.
Was so pleased with my first one I bought a second. Spoilt for choice
now to use the 'upstairs' or the 'downstairs' item. Absolutely
perfect for cutting to length those 1/4" steel potentiometer shafts.
Those boxes of bits are unbelievably cheap and I'll buy on sight,
even though I've about 10 boxes kicking about.
{Summat deeply Freudian to do with being poor when younger and never
ever being able to afford the high prices for tooling from B+D, Bosch
etc