So I bought myself a Dremel today from Builders Warehouse. Fortunately I don't have to venture all the way to table view any more to go to a Builders Warehouse, but I do have to deal with the M5/N1 interchange. Strangely enough not a single person "pushed in" today, I heard the cops have been pulling lots of people off for that lately.
I decided to go for the cordless model. It seems to be powerful enough and the cordlessness is pretty useful. I'm not that likely to be doing any marathon sessions with it so the recharging etc is ok.
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I played around with it a bit and then left it to charge. I actually looked at the manual this time as 35000rpm isn't something to mess around with. The manual wasn't particularly helpful at all. There's quite a few accesories and 100's of bits you can get for this thing, a guide of some sort would have been helpful. It's just kinda assumed that you know what you're doing...
One thing that would have been nice is some sort of safety switch. To switch it on you just use the speed adjuster switch and I obviously moved this a bit while the battery was charging and when I put the battery in it came on
Fortunately I wasn't holding it by that end or anything...
The blue switch with the numbers on turns from 0 (off) to 10 (approx 35000rpm). It's continuously adjustable which makes it a bit nicer than the multi-pro type dremels, also kinda acts like a built in soft-start.
The blue botton is basically the "hold" the thing so you can screw the bits off. That's all their is to it really.
Anyway, all I've done so far is drilling a few holes in things and I cut and sanded some perspex. Will probably do some fragging this weekend...
I decided to go for the cordless model. It seems to be powerful enough and the cordlessness is pretty useful. I'm not that likely to be doing any marathon sessions with it so the recharging etc is ok.
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I played around with it a bit and then left it to charge. I actually looked at the manual this time as 35000rpm isn't something to mess around with. The manual wasn't particularly helpful at all. There's quite a few accesories and 100's of bits you can get for this thing, a guide of some sort would have been helpful. It's just kinda assumed that you know what you're doing...
One thing that would have been nice is some sort of safety switch. To switch it on you just use the speed adjuster switch and I obviously moved this a bit while the battery was charging and when I put the battery in it came on
Fortunately I wasn't holding it by that end or anything...The blue switch with the numbers on turns from 0 (off) to 10 (approx 35000rpm). It's continuously adjustable which makes it a bit nicer than the multi-pro type dremels, also kinda acts like a built in soft-start.
The blue botton is basically the "hold" the thing so you can screw the bits off. That's all their is to it really.
Anyway, all I've done so far is drilling a few holes in things and I cut and sanded some perspex. Will probably do some fragging this weekend...
