My friend is gone

Today, while cutting my panel for the intercom, my little pal, Mr. Dremel
coughed a puff of smoke and the RPM's quickly bled off and the cutting blade
came to a final stop. 8 years old and nearly two Kitfoxes complete. By far,
the most valuable and most used tool. I can just hope that my life will be
as productive as Mr. Dremels' has been.


--
Yosimite Sam

Yosimite Sam wrote:
Today, while cutting my panel for the intercom, my little pal, Mr. Dremel
coughed a puff of smoke and the RPM's quickly bled off and the cutting blade
came to a final stop. 8 years old and nearly two Kitfoxes complete. By far,
the most valuable and most used tool. I can just hope that my life will be
as productive as Mr. Dremels' has been.


--
Yosimite Sam




Geez, did you sleep with it also?

"Yosimite Sam" wrote in message
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Today, while cutting my panel for the intercom, my little pal, Mr. Dremel
coughed a puff of smoke and the RPM's quickly bled off and the cutting
blade
came to a final stop. 8 years old and nearly two Kitfoxes complete. By
far,
the most valuable and most used tool. I can just hope that my life will be
as productive as Mr. Dremels' has been.


--
Yosimite Sam


A sad day indeed. Mine was resurrected twice with new brushes.

"Jerry Springer" wrote in message
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Yosimite Sam wrote:
Today, while cutting my panel for the intercom, my little pal, Mr.
Dremel
coughed a puff of smoke and the RPM's quickly bled off and the cutting
blade
came to a final stop. 8 years old and nearly two Kitfoxes complete. By
far,
the most valuable and most used tool. I can just hope that my life will
be
as productive as Mr. Dremels' has been.
--
Yosimite Sam

Geez, did you sleep with it also?

Dremels come with ALL sorts of attachments =D

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pbrThat was my first thought...Did you perform an autopsy???? was it 
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brcoils--or burned brushes---possibly  boogered bearings???---could
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That was my first thought...Did you perform an autopsy???? was it cooked
coils--or burned brushes---possibly boogered bearings???---could be a
crapped out cord..

Cooked coils....


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Yosimite Sam

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Yosimite Sam wrote:
Today, while cutting my panel for the intercom, my little pal,
Mr.


Geez, did you sleep with it also?

Dremels come with ALL sorts of attachments =D


Lol, that's really funny.:-)

Jonathan

"Yosimite Sam" wrote in message
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That was my first thought...Did you perform an autopsy???? was it
cooked
coils--or burned brushes---possibly boogered bearings???---could
be a
crapped out cord..

Cooked coils....


If nothing else is damaged, why not rewind it?

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Jonathan Lowe.
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I don't care if it spelt properly
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Yosimite Sam

In article 1%kwb.290813$Tr4.922372@attbi_s03, "Yosimite Sam"
writes:



That was my first thought...Did you perform an autopsy???? was it cooked
coils--or burned brushes---possibly boogered bearings???---could be a
crapped out cord..

Cooked coils....



I have gone through three of the little buggars and all three failed in the
switch, not the brushes or bearings.

Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

On 24 Nov 2003 09:13 AM, RobertR237 posted the following:

I have gone through three of the little buggars and all three failed
in the switch, not the brushes or bearings.

I had a brand new one which ran for about 10 seconds out of the box, and
then died due to a faulty switch.

Not counting defective part failures, I have a tough time seeing how I
could possibly wear mine out, as little use as it sees. For the things
I use it for, nothing else will really do but otherwise it often doesn't
come out of the toolbox for months at a time. I believe that if you
find yourself using a dremel tool that much you need to consider buying
some real tools (i.e. bigger grinders) since the dremel isn't really
suited for continuous use. Not to mention the extra time spent since
using the dremel is slow compared to a larger grinder or cut off tool.

I have a pair of 1/4" electric die grinders (one I bought, then got
another for christmas) each with a different bit, a couple of angle
grinders, a 3" cut off tool in addition to my normal bandsaw, hacksaw,
and bench grinder/sander. If none of those will do the job, only then
does the Dremel come out.

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