What have you used your Dremel for?

If indeed you have one, or have borrowed someone's. Just curious as I'm thinking about getting one for a spot of saddle engraving :-)

Didn'd Skully or someone do some mad skull stuff on their Brooks with a Dremel?

matt(baddesigner)

I've used mine to grind out stuck chainring bolts (the indentations on the bit the bolt screws into were mangled and the bolt just span in the hole)
and I've used to cut a cog off of my hub, took a while and I did it without hitting the threading (did two cuts down close to the hub at different sides of the cog and I could snap the cog off it wouldnt rotafix off. Used it for a spot of polishing too!

Some of my allen keys were rounded from years of use.

Used the Dremel to cut 1/4 inch off and now they're as good as new.

Cut down my Ti handlebars (the tungsten carbide hacksaw blade started binding)
Smooth off edges on bolts I've cut down (polo mallets, seat binders)
Smooth down welds on my steel forks so they don't interfere with the new dropout location.
Remove rust patches and flaking paint from steel frames.
Remove braze-ons.
Enlarge punch-marks before drilling pilot holes.
Drilling pilot holes.
Trimming down a saddle which I'd stripped the cover and padding off of.
Cutting down a derailleur cage-plate for use as a 1/8 SS tensioner.

The little carbide discs cut steel and Ti surprisingly well.
These are all quite recent tasks.

Some of my allen keys were rounded from years of use.

Used the Dremel to cut 1/4 inch off and now they're as good as new.

That is a damn good idea!

I've used mine for stripping and polishing a Specialized crosstop lever, restoring an arcade machine (cutting holes in metal, removing bits of casing on a PC monitor, polishing control panel edges, de-rusting steel parts etc), engraving pottery, 'performance' tuning (by porting and polishing) Vespa engine cases, drilling holes in small things where a big drill would be of no use.

Some of my allen keys were rounded from years of use.

Used the Dremel to cut 1/4 inch off and now they're as good as new.

ye i do that with a hacksaw though. winner!

Cool! Worth the £55 or whatever they are on ebay then for the corded version, I don't see the point of paying more for the cordless as I'll be using it inside the flat anyway.

mines a french copy, cost about a tenner & been working for years!

personally i would buy the generic cutting bits for a drill instead. cheaper.
Dremel is massively overpriced for what it is.

my proctologist recommends I don't answer the question

I got the 18V one from Maplins.
Don't be silly Dylan, you can't maneuver a drill in the same way, and variable speed up to 12000-23000 RPM?

I got the 18V one from Maplins.
Don't be silly Dylan, you can't maneuver a drill in the same way, and variable speed up to 12000-23000 RPM?

i have done, its not a problem. turn it upside down and hold it like a dremel.
without sounding like a know it all :P

You must have strong wrists (fnarrr-fnarr)

big hands matey, must be the Celt in me

B&Q do a non dremel branded rotary tool for £30 with an extension bit for doing more fiddly stuff and a stand to hold the tool while you're using the extension. It's variable speed as well. takes all the same sizes of bits. I got one and it's pretty good.

after a quick check its a Performance Rotary Power Tool With Stand, 140W, 9250-25000 RPM, Flexible Shaft Attachment.

Dremels? Ppffftt!

It's all about using one of these babys!

Cutting Canti lugs off and getting the frame prepped for fitting disk mounts...

Haha! never done it myself though . . .
(couldnt find the picture of the women cutting her toe nails with an angle grinder. . .)

for doing leather work a leather punch or design punch will do a better job than the dremel. the dremel will ruin the surface and weaken the structure of the leather, i did some leatherwork with them punches and it is quite easy to work with them.

trimming my pubes, you have to be carefull though, too fast and they wrap around the bit, and tear 'em straight out

trimming murt's pubes

ah, too slow

hahaha