Dremel tool tips

[kitatit]

Hey guys,

After many years of walking past Dremel tools saying "too expensive" I finally bought one.

I bought the kit with the 4000 and little drill press stand. I also bought a right angle drive attachment and a mini planer attachment.
http://www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/spe.../36-kit-2.html

Does anyone have any favorite cutting disks, stones bits ect. that they recommend to add to the small selection that it comes with.

What can't you live without?

Also, what uses have you found for your Dremel that might not be obvious.


Cheers
Kit

[kiyoukan]

cutoff saw disks the ones with teeth make great pcb saws.
I also bought diamond glass cutting disks.
Also hole cutting disks for making holes in glass .
Also polishing kits are good for hard to reach things you want to get shinny.
Also flex shaft is very nice if you want to be able to have more control.

[kitatit]

Thanks kiyoukan. Ah yes toothed disks with my right angle drive should work well.

Thanks for the clues

[JohnYayas]

I have gone through a ton of cut off metal wheels during auto restoration work. There are three that I used a lot. Heavy duty cutoff, regular cutoff, and fiber disc. The Regular cutoffs are great when you want a nice thin cut but they are very fragile and break a lot. The Heavy Duty ones are not so fragile but are thicker so cut a larger slot and therefore cut a little slower. I usually go with the Heavy Duty ones. The fiber cutoffs work well. They are a little larger in diameter, last a little longer, and are not as fragile. But, they are considerably more expensive than the other cutoffs.

I have a flexible extension that I use sometimes. It is handy to have. I bought a grout removal attachment and it was a waste of money.

As you can tell, I typically use my dremel for heavy duty applications as opposed to cutting a PC board or piece of plastic. The switch on my first dremel failed on me. I'm on my second dremel and its working fine after a lot of heavy use. Nice little tools.

[kitatit]

Hi John, thanks for your detailed tips. It is a handy reference of
What can be achieved. I've got good hand tools and heavier power tools but I've been missing an in between tool like this.

Thanks mate

[dsli_jon]

cutoff saw disks the ones with teeth make great [lots of stuff ] saws.

Heartily seconded..



..and, I know you 'already know this', m8 but, deffo don the safety-glasses - even a face shield - especially when using those 'standard' cut-off wheels.. the super-fine 'dust-in-the-eyelashes' is annoying-enough, but like 'Mr Yayas' testified, yes - those quite-often 'give up the ghost', and at 36k rpm, that shrapnel is not exactly the kind of 'friend' you want your eyeball to make aquaintence-with...

..again, I'm sure you're 'one step ahead of me', etc, but.. since these aren't, like, a 'circular-saw' etc, it's easy to get 'comfy' in working with them / tempting to not-bother with eyewear, especially for 'just a quickie cut' etc.... but - that's when they usually 'take the opportunity' to try and embed-themselves in yer flesh...

Anyhoo, njoy! Dremels are indispensable in any diy'ers shop..
j

[kitatit]

Hey Jon I just got home and opened up my little box of goodies.

What have you been cutting with those? They look good for cutting plastics.

+1 for the safety message. It's complacency that causes most accidents I see.

[LaNeK779]

i second all the above and i can't stress Jon's point about safetywear too much
There is a 5.6mm milling bit as well (code 196)
I usually have the 9901 on


The non too obvious uses? Well attach a bit of wire and it makes one hell-of-a-milk-whipper. It can also be used for manicure

[-bart-]

Also, don't waste your money on these disks:


get these ones instead.

[kitatit]

i second all the above and i can't stress Jon's point about safetywear too much
There is a 5.6mm milling bit as well (code 196)
I usually have the 9901 on


The non too obvious uses? Well attach a bit of wire and it makes one hell-of-a-milk-whipper. It can also be used for manicure

That 9901 looks good. Why am I picturing you with nail polish on?

What are you wearing.....

Also, don't waste your money on these disks:


get these ones instead.

Very true, those top ones are not much better than glued together sand. I think the only reason they make them is to fill out the kits so they can say it includes 500 bits

I bought the little kit with about 10 of the quick realse disks of different thickness like you suggested.

Should come in handy for trimming up some carbon fibre in a couple of days.

Thanks guys