you will hear all over this forum about you will need a dremel for this & that ect...it is extremely good for: porting, flywheel lightening, boost porting,carb porting, frame cutting and modification, polishing cylinder and or frame,engraving on your bike...(gotta show its yours!),sanding,buffing, grinding, cutting, and an adjustable speed control for optimum accuracy...i happened to get mine for only 15$ and it came with 2 sets of bits...
bits include:
tugsten carbide,cone grinding,cutoff wheel,buffing bits, small drill,sanding bits....
this should DEFINATELY be stickied!this tools is almost NEEDED to have a pocket bike!
I have one of the original Dremels ....... one of the corded ones, complete with hardcase and about a dozen different bits ...... and it's proved to be one of the most-used tools I have besides my Allen wrenches.
Yeah, but unlike your battery-operated ones, I can't take mine with me to the track for any "on the spot" mods ...... well, not unless I get a power converter for my cigarette lighter ....
Well you guys, thats a nice rotory tool out-fit, yes sir. Do you's have an air compressor? Thats one of the most versatile mediums, it'll run all your needs, but then you knew that right. When giv'n er grinding something, the air seems to take the load a little better than the dremel does, however the dremel is not as expensive (by far) as an air tool set up, and like SpyGuy says, it'll run off the car lighter and converter for at the track. But will it fill the tires or loosen nuts and bolts or torque'm, and I have many more uses for air. Which will run off the car converter as well.
Also the dremel is cumbersome to use, it's heavy and fatigues the hand. None the less, it's a good tool to have in your box, very handy. So is a 5 1/2 in. grinder with a zip-cut wheel on it. Oh yeah and a welder too! lol.
An air die grinder doesn't have to be expensive. I paid $20 for mine thirteen years ago and it still works excellently, it's not quite as powerful as the expensive ones but it's good enough.
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I also have a couple of dremels and they definitely have a million and one uses.
Excuse me, Pegdrag, but if you're going to talk 'hick', then you should know the proper forms of address. "You's" should be "y'all" ...
"Awright, y'all, that Dremel setup thar is a neat li'l thing, yessirreebob, BUT does y'all have you'sef an AIR com-pressor? ....."
. o O (Sorry, I had a "hillbilly" moment thar ... I mean there ....)
hahaha yup... i went to florida and everyone talked like that lol
this is how the old people talk in florida lol: dadnabbit...y'all didnt git ma gritz on da orda...ima hava sue ya...lol
Im sorry pegdrag but you said a dremel is too heavy and cumbersome and tires your hand... but you prefer a heavier larger tool that would tire your hand faster and be harder to get in some of the little spots our bike have??? I am lost as to were your logic is in that comment...
One of the big paper (I think the Wall Street Journal or New York Tribune, something like that)) puts out their annual list of 'new words' for the year. You have to take a word, change, add, or subtract one letter from the word, and provide a definition for your new word. The word I was thinking of while I was writing this was "Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly."
Other words were:
Giraffiti: graffiti painted really, really high.
Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
And my favorite,
"ignoranus: that means you're both stupid and an @$$hole."
People were also encouraged to make up new definitions for existing words. The only one I can remember offhand was the funniest one:
Pokeman: a Rastafarian proctologist.
Let's not get off topic Please -MS
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Im sorry pegdrag but you said a dremel is too heavy and cumbersome and tires your hand... but you prefer a heavier larger tool that would tire your hand faster and be harder to get in some of the little spots our bike have??? I am lost as to were your logic is in that comment...
Well I just prefer a die grinder, they're smaller, and lighter, but I haven't had a dremel(new one) in my hands for many years. Way back when, we used an electric tool like the dremel, it was called a Do-more. It had lots of power but was heavy. Die grinders come in 75 deg. / 90 deg., small sizes (7/8 dia.) and you can hold them like a pencil for hours.
One day when you've got a shop, you'll use air, you'll see.
One tool I just thought of that I've had for a few years is a pencil die grinder. If yoy have air power you can use a pencil die grinder to get in places that are hard to access with a standard size dremel or die grinder. They are about a half inch in diameter and about six or eight inches long and very light weight. A pencil die grinder has an eighth inch Collet so your dremel bits will fit and they use a barrel throttle that you set and it stays where you set it. The one I bought was very expensive because I bought it off of Snap-on tools but I've seen other brands listed for as little as $40.
If you buy a good dremal kit it comes with a pencil grinder attachment or you can even buy 1 to add to your kit. Or if you really want a nice pencil grinder you can alway get a Foredom flex shaft pencil grinder. Which all 3 work very well for me.
Hey, my father in law gave me one of those that fits into the drillpress chuck and collets on 1/8 &1/4 bits, and the bonus is you can run at lower rpm's for certian jobs.
But you know what would be a cool tool, a dentist's grinder tool. It's a remote motor as well, and would be so handy in the really tight spots. I'll bet they're high dollar items for sure. Because for some unknown reason, dentists pay a very high premium for their tools. A squash buddy of mine is a dentist, who does not want to part with his. It works great still, but I got first dib's on it when it's time to retire it, or trade up. Oh just fine...yeah, when it's ready to trash eh! lol. So I'm always on the look out.
And Stu, thats a sweet tool, if you have one, what I'm wondering, is how much did you pay for a snap-on pencil grinder?
I bought mine when they first came out so it was quite expensive, it cost me $200 when I bought it. It comes in super handy, I've used it to do some work on 2 stroke cylinders before (mostly banshee and blaster) and it works great.
