At 07:49 PM 4/6/2009, Bob Stevens wrote:
>used a carbon cutting disc on my Dremel to cut most way through the

I'm not familiar with that (carbon cutting disk) -- is it from Dremel?

>Very surprised at how the Dremel cut through this thick steel (1/8"?)
>as long as I went slowly, not asking the Dremel to be an industrial
>cutting tool.

Incidentally, try to have the disk rotate away from sharp edges
rather than toward them -- they can peel a cutoff disk down pretty
rapidly.  They wear fast enough as it is.

>said (if I understood him correctly), I can't imagine the Dremel being
>used for such a large surface project and such a large tool.

Well the tool of course won't fit the Dremel, unless it's got an
eighth/inch or smaller shaft -- not likely.  Aside from that --
Absolutely!  The Dremel is uniquely useful for things other tools
can't do.  But if a larger tool will do the job, chances are good
that it will do it faster, better and cheaper.  In the heirarchy of
power tools, Dremel fills (and overlaps a bit) the space between a
dental handpiece and a die grinder.

  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"