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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sun, 15 May 2016, 16:32:01

Title: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 15 May 2016, 16:32:01

Looking at this atm....


http://www.amazon.com/Foredom-K-2272-motor-General-Applications/dp/B000R8DMN2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463347740&sr=8-1&keywords=foredom+rotary

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 15 May 2016, 16:40:44

Damn! That is nice! Mine is silly crap and was an order of magnitude cheaper.

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 15 May 2016, 22:08:09

How do you know what all the bits are for?

I bought something like that recently, but I have no idea what most of the bits are supposed to be used for!

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 15 May 2016, 22:58:49

Most of the bits either sand or cut.

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: jaffers on Sun, 15 May 2016, 23:02:45

Be a man and get a nice big die grinder

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: Melvang on Sun, 15 May 2016, 23:13:08

This tool is what dremels are trying to be like, if dremels are clicky MX blues, than this is the IBM F

Title: Re: Requesting help from Rotary tool Gurus..
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 16 May 2016, 05:41:07

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 15 May 2016, 22:58:49

Most of the bits either sand or cut.

Or make small holes bigger, apparently.

I've got a couple of cute little round wire brushes with mine too!