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]

[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.



See you on the fi9eld,
-Bill Mills

[shartley]

[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I think my dremel might be out of date or something.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..

[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.