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What dremel do you use?

Corded or Cordless Dremel?

  • I have only have a corded Dremel

    Votes: 52 80.0%

  • I have a Ni-Cad Cordless and love it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I have a Ni-Cad Cordless and hate it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I have a Lith-ion Cordless and love it

    Votes: 6 9.2%

  • I have a Lith-ion Cordless and hate it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I have had a Cordless and wont own anything but corded.

    Votes: 7 10.8%
  • Total voters
    65
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LibertySyclone

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I am on my second dremel, and the new one is a Lith-ion 10.8V. I miss a little bit of torque but no cord more than makes up for it.



BTW quick change discs FTW

Edit: please move to Cases & Case modding, I am a retard.
 
mines corded. Don't know the model # off the top of my head, but I did get it @ Lowes for like $60.
 
I have a Craftsman rotary tool. Dremel is a brand, not a tool.
 
We do have one but I've never used it. I just got a new set of grinding stones for the drill and those seem to work pretty well at touching up cut outs from my new case. What would any advantages be to using a Dremel instead?
 
I've had both, the cordless is nice but you better pick up 2 other batteries for it, it dies after 30 to 50 min. I got a corded one because i kept getting aggravated with dying batteries.
 
tong said:
I've had both, the cordless is nice but you better pick up 2 other batteries for it, it dies after 30 to 50 min. I got a corded one because i kept getting aggravated with dying batteries.
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corded, variable speed here. anything less is a toy.
 
Variable Speed Multi-Pro and the flex shaft! That flex shaft is the best investment i've ever made.
 
malicious said:
do you use the flex shaft like a "modding pen"
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Actually just used it last night for some cutouts on a friends case. It allows you so much more control it's almost sick. Also useful for etching/precise work and such.
 
I have a #285 dremel, its just a 2 speed model but it gets the job done. I have had a Cordless but it got returned. The cordless are fine for smaller projects but at the time I had 6 fan grils to cut out and I had to charge it after ever single one. I have never had a problem with the cord getting in the way so I will be sticking with Corded dremels.
 
+1 for the corded. cant remember the model but its variable speed. I also have the flexi shaft and love it.
 
I have a couple of Dremels, both corded.
I tried to use it to cut a hole for a 120mm fan but it was taking too long.
I then tried to use my Air powered cutting wheel, but I couldn't control it good enough.
I called up a buddy down the street with a Plasma Torch, and he cut the hole for me in a matter of seconds.
 
Zepher said:
I have a couple of Dremels, both corded.
I tried to use it to cut a hole for a 120mm fan but it was taking too long.
I then tried to use my Air powered cutting wheel, but I couldn't control it good enough.
I called up a buddy down the street with a Plasma Torch, and he cut the hole for me in a matter of seconds.
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hole saws work wonders...
 
brokenarrow03 said:
hole saws work wonders...
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For a square hole????

I needed a square so that the fan would come through a bit since the cooler was too tall,

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I have an ancient corded one for heavier stuff, lith-ion cordless for finesse, and am in the process of buying a rotozip for big cuts (windows and fan holes and the like). But I love my cordless, best tool purchase I've made since my Big Ass Mallet(tm). :D
 
I like how fast and easy hole saws are but Home Depot sells the nearest size saw to 120mm at $35 in-store. You can get them cheaper if you look around and/or order online for pickup. I have a 76mm model I got for some work in the past but I'm not sure I'll bother with the cost ever again. If there's already grills you can do it a ghetto way and drill out all the existing holes along the edge with a 1/4" bit or so. Should be easy to snip out the center after that (if it doesn't completely fall apart on its own). Then just finish up with files or grinding tools to smooth out the edge. That's what I did for my current project on the bottom PSU intake for a CM590. Since there were raised sections of metal to support the PSU I would have had to cut away using a perfect 120mm circle I took the long long way and left those corners doing a ton of manual labor to clear everything else out. Total cost for a another file and some spare grinding stones $14 total or so. I could have spent easily as much on Dremel supplies if I went that route as the corners were too tight for a cutting wheel so that would have meant a pack of wheels + a pack of the thin cylindrical grinding stones.
 
Good advice on the files.

Don't get carried away with a Dremel. It's not the only tool in the shop. Hand files are a superb tool for cleaning up aluminum and plastic openings (for steel, they are slower but perfectly usable). Several files with different shapes (flat, triangle, round) and tpi sizes will handle almost any task, will be cheaper in the long run than Dremel bits and will not take much longer.
 
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