Re: Is that a Dremel in your pocket?
- From: bobharvey <robertharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:52:26 -0700 (PDT)
On 19 Aug, 23:09, Dave Budd <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What's actually good in minidrills?
Mine's rub. Can't recall the brand and the label's dropped off but it's
not a Dremel. Are they any good?
I suspect I have an even worse one in a box somewhere.
My Grandad molished his own. Sort of. In 1955. He got hold of a
really long one of those flexible drive cables with a chuck on the
end, and carved a wooden pistol grip for it, in place of the parallel
sleeve you were supposed to hold. The other end he attached to a
small "universal" motor out of a vacuum cleaner, bout 200W. The motor
was mounted on a board that went on the top shelf - cos all the brush
gear was exposed and live - and the flexible cable would reach
anywhere on the bench.
He molished a speed control out of two electric fire elements whot he
removed some of teh wire from, and connected up with a sort of stud
starter switch to put them in series, just one, parallel, or not in
circuit at all.
The really clever bit was that the standard chuck was 3/8", but he had
another cable about 2 foot long with a 1/8" chuck, which he added to
it for delicate jbex.
Used it for 10 years.
http://www.toolbank.com/p/B-DX66457 sort of thingy
at jbex some 25 years later, we had things a bit like this:
http://www.moleroda.com/acatalog/info_4427.html
with the motor hung from the ceiling: it had a wire loop on the back -
and a foot control. Those were molished by the old british GEC
company, of blessed memory.
This one is clever: it fits a router. Now if only it had a chuck on
the end...
http://www.metabo.co.uk/Product-catalogue-accessories-handheld-powertools.23956+M5798c03782a.0.html#94324
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