Dremel Owners!

[Remington]

Okay, I noticed that every now and then, someone posts saying they did "such and such" with their Dremel. It's usually polishing a body rail or milling a body or something that sounds really fun. Anyway. My question is this: Is it really worth the money(amazon.co has kits for under 100 bucks)? Also, what all can you do with it? Let me know!

[EDIT]: Also post which one you own and which one you think is the best.

[shartley]

YES! That or any other thing like it.

You can cut with it, carve with it, polish with it, sand with it, scribe with it, etc. They are very useful tools and can get addictive with all the bits and accessories that you can get for them.

One warning though, none of them are as “easy” as they look in TV. It takes some practice and patience to use them well.

(Added: I own a Dremel. Which one is best? Take your pick.)

[Evil Bob]

You can polish your own teeth with a Dremel, sand furniture, cut wire, shape metal, shape wood, torture your brother/sister/significant other/household pets, Create unique, innovative, and cutting edge clothing that fashion experts in Paris will turn green with envy over, the sky is the limit with the Dremel...

-Evil Bob

[Remington]

Does anyone have any pics they can post of what they did thats paintball related? I want to see what I could try and do if I ever decide to buy one.

[manike]

I remember the first day I got my dremel *sigh* they are great! Big thumbs up from me.

manike

[MantisMag]

i did a poll on which dremel tool to get a few weeks ago. the overwhelming consensus was for the dremel dremel. i don't know if that's because they're actually better or because nobody has the others though. :(

[billmi]

I kinda like this bench grinder because it has the rotary tool like a dremel as well as the grinding wheels:

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/tools/grinder/

You can't see 'em in this picture, but all a lot of the components in the wing on this plane had lightening holes cut in them with the rotary tool, and I rounded and shaped part of the trailing edge and the wing tips by sanding with the grinding wheel.

http://www.corin.com/bill/rc/L19/birddog.jpg

See you on the fi9eld,
-Bill Mills

[shartley]

Yes, bench grinders are a must as well. But I don’t know if I would get a baby 3inch though. ;)

My 6inch grinder is about as small as I would want. Anything else can be done with my Dremel. :D

(I do admit that is a cute setup though. :))

[billmi]

The size is one of the things I really like about it. If I was doing welding and larger projects, I totally agree, that 3" size would be too small. For me though, most stuff I'm working on is small paintgun size parts, or the like. With only a 2 car garage (well, the architect says 2, I think 1.5) I'm kinda limited on space, so I really like the compact size of this grinder, taking the limited torque of the motor as a trade-off, and the rotary tool as like getting 2 tools in 1.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[personman]

I think my dremel might be out of date or something. It can barely cut metal and stuff.. maybe I just need diffrent bits.
But yea we have a really old dremel.. I did use it to makeshift intellifeed my stock frame and cut the trigger guard, and I used one to ( help ) cut the metal I used on my cradel for my tsunami tank that ended up breaking.. :p

[BTAutoMag]

yes get a dremal but DON'T get the cordless. the charge lasts for 5 min, the battery pack falls out and it takes a long time to charge

[magmonkey]

A dremel is a good thing. A dremel in the wrong hands is worse than any nightmare you could dream of

Gliney the magmonkey

[jah871]

Originally posted by Remington
Does anyone have any pics they can post of what they did thats paintball related? I want to see what I could try and do if I ever decide to buy one.

i made this trigger i carved out of a stock one.

[K-villeplayer]

Has anyone milled out part of an Emag body rail with one? Just trying to see if it can be done.

Thanks
Andrew

[FordPrefect]

Also, about the cordless Dremels, they are only half the speed of the corded ones. I think the regular ones go 30,000 RPM, and the cordless ones go 15,000 RPM.

[pito189]

Well p8ntballa on here, had been doing some extensive dremeling to his E-Mag, I will see if I can coax him to post some pictures of his work. ;)

[Snertz]

Well, heres what I did with nothing but a dremel tool...

Body Rail:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid45/p5375241049d373dbb03508a0de14bbec/fcd60248.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid45/p611a19627797a77d507a8366ef832253/fcd6024c.jpg

Details in my other thread (Body Rail Sculpting)

And yes, they're totally worth the money.

[cheetah256]

Originally posted by FordPrefect
Also, about the cordless Dremels, they are only half the speed of the corded ones. I think the regular ones go 30,000 RPM, and the cordless ones go 15,000 RPM.

mine does 40,000 : D

[The Frymarker]

Mostly all of my grips are dremmeled. You can do a lot of carving and scribe work with them

[Rancid Milk]

Originally posted by Snertz

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid45/p5375241049d373dbb03508a0de14bbec/fcd60248.jpg



Wow, I wish I was daring enough to try that, but I am afraid it would look more like
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my hands aren't all that graceful :)

[Little Matt]

what kind of bit did you use to do that. It looks great, good job.

Later,

[Remington]

Wow! I'm going to get one as soon as I get enough money. Amazon.com has some really nice kits for under 100 bucks.

[rifleman]

Yuck, I hate dremels... Use real tools!!! :)



Like an air grinder :p




Adam

[FutureMagOwner]

i got a dremel for christmas(along with the nice present of having to send my computer to get fixed by the complete morons at the gateway store)i was really excited and started practicing using it by trying to polish my slug body a bit more and do some random things to a plastic bottle, lets just say i made the slug really weird looking and burnt my finger when i piece of plastic went flying of the bottle :rolleyes: good fun but i need practice and knowledge on which bit is which and which to use for what i want to do