Dremel Recommendations
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Bavarianbrit
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Used one a lot in Mexico on an Audi launch in 2016 they are quite well made and hold up well to heavy loading.
Brilliant little tools. Unless you absolutely must have portability or will be using above your head where cord could get in the way, I would avoid the cordless offerings. You get more power and no charging faff with the corded ones.
You also do not need to spend £100 to get what you need. Buy a basic model and spend more on the attachments you need.
I was using mine the other day to sharpen a stitching awl. There is always some job it can do. It was certainly a useful little tool to fit a gunsmith adapter neatly to a stock once.
You also do not need to spend £100 to get what you need. Buy a basic model and spend more on the attachments you need.
I was using mine the other day to sharpen a stitching awl. There is always some job it can do. It was certainly a useful little tool to fit a gunsmith adapter neatly to a stock once.
I purchased a Dremel copy at B&Q some 5 years ago for less than £30. It came as a kit with the all-important flexible drive. Something like this:
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We burn out several dremels every year.... Main problem ist the first bearing with glass/carbon dust. We get the same life span out of cheap Lidl dremels as with more expensive makes. 135watt is the min one should get, 160 is better. For the rough stuff we use a 500 watt version with 6mm bits.
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I bet the Op's first job will be reducing stock material around the action and recoil lug area to permit glass bedding!
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Rusty Gate
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Bought a Draper version a while back & still going strong.
Dremels are overpriced. I bought a cheap (less than £30, from AIMtools) Chinese Katsu straight die grinder with 6mm Jacobs chuck off eBay and it's been great. I think it's the 280w one. It is very good quality.
Have both real and copies both work well but find getting decent bits for them is a pain lots of them are too soft and burn out quickly.
It is embarrassing but they are so useful.
last night I chopped a half inch piece of seasoned hazel off a stick, screwed a wood screw in to it, use the dremel to cut the screw head off so that the little handmade tool could then be mounted in to the dremel. I then turned the dremel on and used a piece of sandpaper to cut a grove in the circumference of the hazel as it spun round and now have an automated leather edge burnisher.
Miss Cottis is very happy with her new glasses case and I was very happy with the slicked burnished edge of the leather. Mmmm, cognac horween leather and naked assembly (I was wearing shorts really)
CarlW
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I burnish leather-edges by hand, using the jawbone of a roebuck...It is embarrassing but they are so useful.
last night I chopped a half inch piece of seasoned hazel off a stick, screwed a wood screw in to it, use the dremel to cut the screw head off so that the little handmade tool could then be mounted in to the dremel. I then turned the dremel on and used a piece of sandpaper to cut a grove in the circumference of the hazel as it spun round and now have an automated leather edge burnisher.
Miss Cottis is very happy with her new glasses case and I was very happy with the slicked burnished edge of the leather. Mmmm, cognac horween leather and naked assembly (I was wearing shorts really)
Excellent, that is what I call making use of the beast.
CarlW
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Unless no-one is watching...in which case...Dremel...
Like all power tools they take of to much material to quickly LOL!
Ian.
Ian.
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