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| Thread ID: 139059 | 2015-03-04 01:32:00 | Does any supplier sell "Dremel" tools that are not made out of wet cardboard? | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1395668 | 2015-03-04 01:32:00 | Hi Team I have a couple of 'Dremel' handpiece clones that work well in themselves, but their accessories have a working life of about 30 seconds. In fact I had to buy a second set because the flexible cable for the remote handpiece broke in two from exhaustion after five minutes of wearing out all the wire brushes. A few items are acceptable i.e. cutting wheels that do actually cut metal if you can keep the mounting screw tight enough, but the rest of the accessories have the durability of a wet tissue in a hurricane. Wire brushes are particularly bad, winding themselves into furry balls and showering you with wire fragments a few seconds after you show them what you wish to clean, and grinding wheels that wear away in minutes, leaving the workpiece only slightly abraded. Is there a 'second source' for suitable tools, where I might purchase accessories that can actually stand up to normal hobby usage? I've looked at Bunnings, Mitre 10 and a few others but all I see is the same old same old, the price alone indicating the grade of recycled chinese kite paper used to make them. Cheers Billy 8-{) :help: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1395669 | 2015-03-04 01:49:00 | You could try Super Cheap Auto. I bought a SuperWorks "clone" for around $30 about 8 years ago or so. The accessories are all ok and good (the way I use them :) ) The only snag I found was the collets and tool shanks were slightly bigger than Dremel, so to use real Dremel items I had to make up a super thin sleeve adapter. "Real" grinding wheels of the diameters in these kits would run at 80,000 ->100,000+ rpm in a real machine tool. These Dremel type tools only have enough power to tickle a workpiece, you can't expect too much. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1395670 | 2015-03-04 01:52:00 | sounds like you may be to heavy handed. they are for small delicate work. it takes a long time to do work with them. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1395671 | 2015-03-04 01:52:00 | Have you tried genuine Dremel accessories ? I bought cutting wheels from the US, bigger diameter & fibre re-enforced so they dont fly to bits . If I can find the link I'll post it up I also bought some cutters from Bangood , yet to try em . I guess any small cheap cutting tool/brush spinning at 10,000 rpm will have longevity issues . And just to get your blood pressure up, you can buy some junk direct from China . Free postage to NZ . Maybee some of these are usuable . banggood . com/buy/Dremel-Rotary . html" target="_blank">www . banggood . com :thumbs: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1395672 | 2015-03-04 02:25:00 | Have you looked at Widget Supply (www.widgetsupply.com)? They have a great range of Dremel accessories at heavily reduced prices :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1395673 | 2015-03-04 08:10:00 | The Dremel tools and extras I use last pretty well, but the only time i bought a cheap copy to do a small job for a friend I found the tool and the accessories to be of negligible value. They were cheap and the quality was as expected. It did the job required of it. but the cutting wheels vanished faster than the work they were painstakingly removing. So, for doing Dremel work, use a Dremel if you think you might need to use it again some day. They are pretty good value, but not cheap. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1395674 | 2015-03-05 03:37:00 | Have you tried genuine Dremel accessories? No, the cost is more than I (read: Mrs T) am prepared to spend for occasional use, but I'd like to be able to use a brass or even steel bristle brush without getting showered with broken wires before finding the residual stubs all rolled up in a ball . In the latest epic fail, I was cleaning out rot in a window frame preparatory to sealing the wood with liquid epoxy hardener, (I will then bog it, trim/scrape/sand it to shape and apply paint) and you'd be hard pressed to classify soft well-rotted wood as a challenging substrate for a brass brush, but even the 'steel' brushes give up the ghost when asked to pony-up and do some work . The brushes are used only as a final surface dresser as the bulk of the work was done with chisels and scrapers . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1395675 | 2015-03-05 03:59:00 | No, the cost is more than I (read: Mrs T) am prepared to spend for occasional use, The brushes are used only as a final surface dresser as the bulk of the work was done with chisels and scrapers. So you haven't visited Widget? |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1395676 | 2015-03-05 04:47:00 | So you haven't visited Widget? You can take a horse to water.................. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1395677 | 2015-03-05 05:18:00 | So you haven't visited Widget? Yes, I have visited Widget and they look reasonably economic, but their international warranty policy is 'No Warranty' which is a bit worrying! I guess it is no worse than buying something here though, and finding that it shreds on first contact . The 'cheap' cutting wheels I have are fibre-reinforced and are actually very good . I was renovating a ex-front door that had had a lock secured by those 'one-way' screw so I had to cut new slots to remove the screws, but the cutting wheel made mincemeat out of the steel heads and the job was done in no time flat . The cutting wheels were out of a pack from the usual cut-rate source so it was a welcome surprise . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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