Almost this. The only time it came in handy was when I needed to grind out old grout from between tiles in my bathroom.
It's mostly an art and crafts-tier tool.
>bought the big one
Common newbie mistake. Buying the biggest, most powerful, advanced tool to future proof. Then realizing it's too bulky, cumbersome and expensive for your hobby application to put the effort into running it and risking damage to it for some shitty project.
id love to see someone who has to cut steel all day use a dremel beside an angle grinder and compare how much work you can get done btw a cutoff saw with a metal cutting disk is pretty useful
Um yeah, can I get a .... uhhhh ... yeah lemme get ... you know what hold on one sec. Okay yeah you still there? Lemme get a number 4 with a Dr Pepper. Yeah. Yeah medium is fine. No, no ... Dr Pepper. Yeah ... no Coke. Yeah medium. Okay thanks.
That's a corded vs cordless issue. Corded Dremel of mine is scary how fast it can rotate. My cordless one has more safety features which I'm not going to complain about.
>muh safety
what's that got to do with them burning out
fact is, electric "dremels" and knockoffs are all shit
it's a stupid tool that should be air powered
I have one for almost 11 years. I use it all the time for knife making. Never had any problems except I once had to open it and clean metal dust from the button, that caused it to run at full speed no matter what position it is.
I used one of these and they are actually pretty good.
Small rotary tools still suck dick so I wouldnt buy one, but id probably buy it over a dremel brand one.
On hitch balls none of that matters as they're generously over-engineered. Poorly machined ones might break at the stud if it's machined with a stress raiser and grossly overloaded but I've not seen one do it despite a morbid trailer hitch fetish and decades wrenching on and making trailers.
I really doubt that the dremel will replace the 36" bed x 10" throw Jubilee lathe, the 550w 16mm chuck MT2 pillar drill, the 36" 10" throat bandsaw, the 2x72 3hp belt sander, or the Sorby chisels.
It definitely isnt replacing the 3-burner forge, any of the anvils, the vices, the inlaying gravers, and the files for accurate work.
The Dremel brand is the original one I have had for years. The Craftsman was inherited.
id love to see someone who has to cut steel all day use a dremel beside an angle grinder and compare how much work you can get done btw a cutoff saw with a metal cutting disk is pretty useful
I mean, it's great for polishing things, and for the occasional need to cut off a stubborn bolt, but it doesn't replace a circular saw or router or drill. It doesn't even replace enough things to warrant getting them Dremel brand one, instead of the corded knock off from Harbor Freight
I always thought this thing would be way more useful. I wanted one through high school for misc tasks and figured I'd use it fot everything. Finally bought one senior year college to patch drywall but realizing I could have just used a fricking drywall knife later on. I rarely use it. Can't remember last time I touched it. It astounds me how long I wanted one and finally had the"prefect"job for it just to realize that was not true and it sits in the drawer for years after the fact.
This is a pretty good deal on Amazon right now, its normally $50, probably wont stay that way long
Buy a real dremel branded tool and be done
https://www.amazon.com/Dremel-200-1-Two-Speed-Rotary-Tool/dp/B002BAA818
No. Overpriced but worth it for very limited circumstances. Like refinishing outdoor furniture with tightly spaced slats. Ain’t fitting an orbital in there and frick hand sanding like a caveman.
I burned out two of them when I was restoring my car, refuse to give them any more money. Got the $25 cheapie shop branded one from the local parts store, it's un-ironically 10 times better than the dremel branded one.
I used to have a corded dremel but never used the stupid thing so i gave it to my brother. Eventually bought a cordless no name rotary tool but all it does is get used to grind tungstens now that i have a proper die grinder.
It's for gnomes who work on objects that are 1:20 of the normal size.
For normal sized jobs, it's useless as the tiny piece of shit parts are consumed FAST.
Their business model is to lure you in with a cheap product like a drug dealer, then force you to buy more consumables for a very high price. Don't do it!
While rotary tools are great, they're too small for a lot of stuff - I checked recently and the biggest bit my proxxon accepts is like 3 something mm.
You don't have to buy accessories from the same brand though, and the no-name stuff is cheap and mostly good enough(at least for more consumable grinding/cutting tools, didn't try the engraving ones)
i dont like using dremels. i bought some cheap dremel head set at walmart a few months ago and put one in my dremel and turned it up to max speed and the bit like bent in the middle and was spinning like a propeller at 10,000 rpm or whatever until i unplugged it. could have broken off and put my eye out or something
>cheap dremel head
That's your problem. And the Walmart thing.
I've had a Dremel for years. I have two because my sister thought I'd like my mom's, after she died. I buy the good parts, and they work the handful of times a year I need it. They're not meant to be daily driver tools, unless you're building models or some craft thing. They're great for when you don't have a compressor for a proper die grinder setup.
Most people I've seen use them, use them wrong. I wouldn't grind all day on metal with one and burn the motor out, but I bet there's posters here who have done it - and used the cheapest shit off amazon to do it. They're light duty tools, but there will always be tards who think they're heavy duty rated.
I bought one of these and the only time I ever use it is to engrave my tools with my name, and when I need to cut off a piece of metal where I can’t get my angle grinder in.
every tool in your shed
I try not to buy job-specific tools, but god damn, one of those oscillating blade cutter things earned back it's cost in one job's worth of frustration. I was fixing my deck stairs wood rot and had all the new wood screwed into place when I noticed the new stair tread didn't look level due to a measuring frickup. The oscillating cutter let me fix it without having to take it all apart.
It's not often you need it, but when you do nothing else gets the job done.
>never seen a single tradesmen even own one of these useless pieces of shit
to the contrary op, the only people i have seen buy these are moron meth addicts just looking for a toy to pass the time with
>be me >saturday morning >time to chop some firewood >threw out all of my tools because all I need is my dremel >grab my trusty dremel and head out towards the forest
I bought the big one with all the whose its and whats its. Never use it.
Almost this. The only time it came in handy was when I needed to grind out old grout from between tiles in my bathroom.
It's mostly an art and crafts-tier tool.
Back to work, wagie
>bought the big one
Common newbie mistake. Buying the biggest, most powerful, advanced tool to future proof. Then realizing it's too bulky, cumbersome and expensive for your hobby application to put the effort into running it and risking damage to it for some shitty project.
That's why you just buy the manlet dremel attachment that gives you a nimble, easier to hold Dremel for all of the finer work you have to do
>drills
>cuts
>grinds
>sands
>polishes
>engraves
NNOOOOO I NEED A DRILL AND A BUZZ SAW AND A ANGLE GRINDER BECAUSE... I JUST DO OK??!
Yes, it's ok. I do too, and have multiples.
>I NEED A DRILL AND A BUZZ SAW AND A ANGLE GRINDER BECAUSE
Dremels don't have the torque for doing real work.
Sounds like a user issue.
Lol, next time I 6011 my brush hog blades back together I will bust out the old Dremel to grind off the slag for sure anon....
id love to see someone who has to cut steel all day use a dremel beside an angle grinder and compare how much work you can get done btw a cutoff saw with a metal cutting disk is pretty useful
you are an essential worker. an important cog of society.
Is your milk shake machine still broken?
oh lmao did you guys not know there are people who can afford to buy tools
No it's not.
be less obvious with the bait next time I come on this site to argue with you dumbasses atleast put in the effort
Um yeah, can I get a .... uhhhh ... yeah lemme get ... you know what hold on one sec. Okay yeah you still there? Lemme get a number 4 with a Dr Pepper. Yeah. Yeah medium is fine. No, no ... Dr Pepper. Yeah ... no Coke. Yeah medium. Okay thanks.
>burns out because you're only supposed to use it at 30% duty cycle lmao
dremels and their knock-off derivatives are lame and gay
That's a corded vs cordless issue. Corded Dremel of mine is scary how fast it can rotate. My cordless one has more safety features which I'm not going to complain about.
>muh safety
what's that got to do with them burning out
fact is, electric "dremels" and knockoffs are all shit
it's a stupid tool that should be air powered
I have one for almost 11 years. I use it all the time for knife making. Never had any problems except I once had to open it and clean metal dust from the button, that caused it to run at full speed no matter what position it is.
Those are a meme. The cutting wheel takes forever.
Looks like the Big Toolbrand shills have arrived
Dremel fears the superior battery platform.
that pic is now peak cringe.
ask me how I can tell you're 50+
Because your dad cracks jokes on you like that? About you being embarrassing or whatever.
I used one of these and they are actually pretty good.
Small rotary tools still suck dick so I wouldnt buy one, but id probably buy it over a dremel brand one.
the red gay fears Chad key lime man.
I use my ryobi cordless trim router than my Milwaukee Drexel.
Buy a set of different colets and you can get sizes for rotozip and dremel bits
>key lime tools
>used by men
That's a man.
Both owned by Techtronic.
I only use it for precise work. I still have a drill, grinder, sander, etc.
>He doesn't lug around an extension cord and a hanging rotary tool.
>He doesn't enjoy watching the motor jump around on the ground as he works.
Why would anyone wire wheel a trailer hitch ball?
because too much rust is bad and can actually start showing snake patterns and reduce strength ...
>because too much rust is bad
So put some grease on the ball. Balls that aren't greasy are balls that aren't used.
Oil on rust will still allow active rust under it to continue.
On hitch balls none of that matters as they're generously over-engineered. Poorly machined ones might break at the stud if it's machined with a stress raiser and grossly overloaded but I've not seen one do it despite a morbid trailer hitch fetish and decades wrenching on and making trailers.
Fair enough, that particular case of rust cleaning is indeed a bit pointless.
OTOH any excuse to scrub my balls is nice.
It's a good beginning and they complement each other nicely.
Remove grit before op shoves it up his ass
gotta make shit shiny and new whenever you sell a car, even if everybody knows it will go back to normal a few months later.
It's one of those gay europoor style balls. They can't help but polish knobs constantly.
>It's one of those gay europoor style balls. They can't help but polish knobs constantly.
>attach rubber ball to grinder attachment
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Yes, as long as the only thing you do in your shed is polishing your buttplug collection.
all i've got in my shed is a welder and a pair of pliers.
I actually tried to cut steel roofing pannels with a dremel once. Didn't work out, had to buy a grinder.
I really doubt that the dremel will replace the 36" bed x 10" throw Jubilee lathe, the 550w 16mm chuck MT2 pillar drill, the 36" 10" throat bandsaw, the 2x72 3hp belt sander, or the Sorby chisels.
It definitely isnt replacing the 3-burner forge, any of the anvils, the vices, the inlaying gravers, and the files for accurate work.
Try harder
See above
That’s why I have 2!
>starting a thread incognito to brag about your 2nd hand dremel you just bought
Truly pathetic
The Dremel brand is the original one I have had for years. The Craftsman was inherited.
Thank you for your service.
I don't get it
Hammer?
Crowbar?
>Hammer?
Not needed. Use fasteners.
>Crowbar?
You can separate things with the grinding bits and the cutoff wheels.
table grinder, angle grinder, dremel, drill press, circular saw, oxyacteylene torch, welder
that's about everything you need
Fricking love my Dremel. I wanted to buy a saw Dremel head but couldn't justify when I'd ever need it.
>do half the work in double the time
must be nice to have so much time to waste
Wait... You're serious?
I mean, it's great for polishing things, and for the occasional need to cut off a stubborn bolt, but it doesn't replace a circular saw or router or drill. It doesn't even replace enough things to warrant getting them Dremel brand one, instead of the corded knock off from Harbor Freight
Sure if you wanna cut aluminum all fricking day go on ahead. That shit won't keep my motor hoisted when I got the transmission yanked out, though.
I always thought this thing would be way more useful. I wanted one through high school for misc tasks and figured I'd use it fot everything. Finally bought one senior year college to patch drywall but realizing I could have just used a fricking drywall knife later on. I rarely use it. Can't remember last time I touched it. It astounds me how long I wanted one and finally had the"prefect"job for it just to realize that was not true and it sits in the drawer for years after the fact.
Owned one for 15 years, used it maybe 15 times.
I guess for particular hobbies it could be very useful, but as a generic tool to have in your toolbox I certainly wouldn’t miss it.
I am looking for a cheap corded dremel, any recommendations?
This is a pretty good deal on Amazon right now, its normally $50, probably wont stay that way long
Buy a real dremel branded tool and be done
https://www.amazon.com/Dremel-200-1-Two-Speed-Rotary-Tool/dp/B002BAA818
Harbor freight. Would definitely invest in some eye pro
No. Overpriced but worth it for very limited circumstances. Like refinishing outdoor furniture with tightly spaced slats. Ain’t fitting an orbital in there and frick hand sanding like a caveman.
>not a pendant drill motor
living like pleb in the dremal world
Was this supposed to look like a slowjak from the thumnail or should I just take a month long break from this website
sabbatical time
I burned out two of them when I was restoring my car, refuse to give them any more money. Got the $25 cheapie shop branded one from the local parts store, it's un-ironically 10 times better than the dremel branded one.
I like dremel too. I hate grinding, so a tool that makes it practically point-and-click is a godsend.
also blows your eye out
>buy dremel
>screw tip thing falls out and i cant get it back in
its a piece of shit
I used this to completely fix the rust on my old car. It saved me so much sanding it was insane
I used to have a corded dremel but never used the stupid thing so i gave it to my brother. Eventually bought a cordless no name rotary tool but all it does is get used to grind tungstens now that i have a proper die grinder.
It's for gnomes who work on objects that are 1:20 of the normal size.
For normal sized jobs, it's useless as the tiny piece of shit parts are consumed FAST.
Their business model is to lure you in with a cheap product like a drug dealer, then force you to buy more consumables for a very high price. Don't do it!
While rotary tools are great, they're too small for a lot of stuff - I checked recently and the biggest bit my proxxon accepts is like 3 something mm.
You don't have to buy accessories from the same brand though, and the no-name stuff is cheap and mostly good enough(at least for more consumable grinding/cutting tools, didn't try the engraving ones)
i mean, if all you do is make doll houses then yeah...
i dont like using dremels. i bought some cheap dremel head set at walmart a few months ago and put one in my dremel and turned it up to max speed and the bit like bent in the middle and was spinning like a propeller at 10,000 rpm or whatever until i unplugged it. could have broken off and put my eye out or something
>cheap dremel head
That's your problem. And the Walmart thing.
I've had a Dremel for years. I have two because my sister thought I'd like my mom's, after she died. I buy the good parts, and they work the handful of times a year I need it. They're not meant to be daily driver tools, unless you're building models or some craft thing. They're great for when you don't have a compressor for a proper die grinder setup.
Most people I've seen use them, use them wrong. I wouldn't grind all day on metal with one and burn the motor out, but I bet there's posters here who have done it - and used the cheapest shit off amazon to do it. They're light duty tools, but there will always be tards who think they're heavy duty rated.
imagine actually spending 20 minutes grinding that rust off when an angle grinder wire wheel would do it in two minutes flat
My pneumatic die grinder rips through anything and those small wire wheels are god tier, too bad the fricking thing is loud.
My wife likes to use that to trim the dogs nails. I burned a corded one up and went back to pneumatic die grinders.
I bought one of these and the only time I ever use it is to engrave my tools with my name, and when I need to cut off a piece of metal where I can’t get my angle grinder in.
These are really handy for cooking I use them all the time for food prep
>buy a brush attachment for the cordless drill I already have
>costs a fraction of the price because it's no-name and not DREMEL®™©
>also finishes the job much faster because I'm not using a israeliteler's tool to brush rust off a trailer hitch
That never hallened incel
Ah yes, the rare 20k rpm cordless drill.
V=omega * R
if you know, you know
every tool in your shed
I try not to buy job-specific tools, but god damn, one of those oscillating blade cutter things earned back it's cost in one job's worth of frustration. I was fixing my deck stairs wood rot and had all the new wood screwed into place when I noticed the new stair tread didn't look level due to a measuring frickup. The oscillating cutter let me fix it without having to take it all apart.
It's not often you need it, but when you do nothing else gets the job done.
bogs down on slight pressure to take the rust off
frick off the angle grinder is the ultimate tool.
a baby imitation die grinder can't do shit.
I wish I used mine more. I never think of it
>never seen a single tradesmen even own one of these useless pieces of shit
to the contrary op, the only people i have seen buy these are moron meth addicts just looking for a toy to pass the time with
And adult men who still pay with model trains.
That’s because meth head who slap lumber together don’t need to do fine sculpting, they’re for craftsmen and artists not grunts
Lots of insecure closet cases itt
Did you walk in on your daddy with a dremel in his ass lollll poofs
Ikr holy shit
Can it replace a shovel?
didnt an ausi (australian) make a smg from that?
the sten gun style but different.
>be me
>saturday morning
>time to chop some firewood
>threw out all of my tools because all I need is my dremel
>grab my trusty dremel and head out towards the forest
I have one, used it a few times grinding fan covers off PC cases so I could stuff a larger fan in.