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[analogue_radio]

Will be progressing onto the bodywork soon and an angle grinder is too heavy handed for some of the smaller & more trickier to cut out bits of rust.

I'd like to spend around £50, with all the blades and bit included.

What do you all use? anything you swear by?

[Bungle]

just look in my local cheap stuff store a real Dremel with a few bits is £80

i don't remember them being this much

ended up going for a air powered die grinder for £18

[Gaffer]

my local cheapy tool shop has one for sale for £25 - £30. This comes with all the bits and bobs that you would need.

I looked in B&Q for a cordless dremel and they were £80 but can get corded ones for under £50. Just looked on their site and cant find one for that price but am sure i saw one just before xmas for under £50

*EDIT* just found this on ebay

Edited by j519ldv, 03 January 2010 - 04:55 PM.

[R1minimagic]

I got one from Machine Mart for about £30 and its pretty good, comes with plastic carry case, loads of attachements and consumables and a stand for the rotary tool.

http://www.machinema...rotary-tool-kit

Edited by R1minimagic, 03 January 2010 - 04:59 PM.

[HARBER07]

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...0#ht_1727wt_941

Thats the one i have, plus a few extra bits for it. I honestly couldn't have done without the flexible shaft bit!! Good bit of kit really, got mine from B&Q for about the same price.

[Tupers]

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...0#ht_1727wt_941

Thats the one i have, plus a few extra bits for it. I honestly couldn't have done without the flexible shaft bit!! Good bit of kit really, got mine from B&Q for about the same price.

I got the Dremel 300 with the flexible shaft for my hobby work 2 or 3 years ago and it's awesome. Personally I'd advise against buying cheap imitations as most of the others I've used either aren't as a fast/powerful and don't last nearly as long as a proper Dremel will. That said none of my cutting, grinding and sanding attachments are genuine Dremel as they are stupidly expensive compared to can be had on ebay.


So go Dremel for the tool (300's great) but don't buy their attachments they're terribly overpriced.

Edited by Tupers, 03 January 2010 - 05:33 PM.

[mintom]

Got a Dremel Li-ion cordless with kit o'bits for just over £50 including the postage off ebay couple of months back.
I wanted cordless, as where I do any work on the car, hasn't got power.

Doesn't need to be an official dremel you get I guess, there must be others out there..
My sister goes through a fair few of corded versions of these tools in the course of her business.. She doesn't pay a lot for them mind..

[rosco454]

I have a dremel "professional" - what makes it a professional version im not sure but its a really handy bit of kit.

[analogue_radio]

Thanks for all the replies guys.

I got one from Machine Mart for about £30 and its pretty good, comes with plastic carry case, loads of attachements and consumables and a stand for the rotary tool.

http://www.machinema...rotary-tool-kit

How is that for cutting through mini bodywork metal?

[R1minimagic]

Its ok but i wouldn't go trying to cut a full wing off or anything like that, for small sections no problem at all.

[somecrapname]

I bought a Dremel a while ago, but the cutting discs you get included with it were rubbish for (mini) metalwork, they are so flimsy! I had to buy a new pack of slightly thicker ones, which are much beter but still nothing amazing. Has anyone found some decent cutting discs to use?

[R1minimagic]

I cut through quite thick stainless steel tubing with the Machine Mart ones no problem.

[analogue_radio]

Its ok but i wouldn't go trying to cut a full wing off or anything like that, for small sections no problem at all.

Yeah that's what Im using it for, roof gutter sections, window sections.. the small fiddley bits.

I'll buy that Clarke one and see how things go

[marksmini]

got mine for £40,00 cant rememeber what make it was now but it burnt out on its second time of being used. doesnt help you find one but just needed to posts something before i go to sleep tonight : -)

[davidv]

Dremal drills are really great tools.Argos £60-£80 or Extreme at £50 not bad.I have always used the Dremel small drills in the past in my art work bus. Extra tool bits from K.Green in Germany top of the top for bits very dear but last even dentists use the bits.