I am sooooooo glad I listened to Phil!
Butting was easy, drilling... erm...
Never took the Dremmel above 2 while drilling out the hands on 48 🧀 Swiss 🧀 pikes before the night failed. I can see how you injure yourself with that! Wow! :o
I think about 20 survived okay! ;) Changed to a smaller drill bit helped. ;D
Will......Don't worry.
I would say that I'm fairly proficient with a Dremmel.......And I make c*ck ups between 10 & 20 % of the time....trying to do, what I know what you're attempting .
Just takes practice, Matey..
I'm sure they'll be fine.
Cheers - Phil
Last 48 drilled assembled and all undercoated.
Couple of interesting misdrills where the bit has made anatomically correct orifices or Swiss 🧀 🧀 cheese holes!
Wait until a tiny portion of the bit snaps off, and stays in the model ! X_X
Then you'll say naughty words. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Dave broke a bit with his Dremel the other day, which pinged across the unit and hit me while I was emptying the van...
Yoiks!
X_X :o
Quote from: Leon on 10 April 2017, 10:16:22 PM
Dave broke a bit with his Dremel the other day, which pinged across the unit and hit me while I was emptying the van...
I hope you are all wearing safety goggles at work now, we want no nasty eye injuries
Cheers
Ian
And a new set of skills added to my Dremmel usage today.
Cutting disc (I even risked speed 3), and sanding tube-thingy-ma-jig used for the first time on some of Leon's flying base rods!
It were FUN! 8)
Will.
Please tell me you were using a carborunderumderumderumderum disc and not one of the mini metal circular saws.
I won't ever use those....especially with my penchant for slicing into my own digits.
But.....Dremmels are damn useful, aren't they. :)
Cheers - Phil
It was one of the grey discs more like a paper sanding disc but only on the edges, not one of the nastytoothed ones!
Only on the edges ?
Don't know that type, Will.
I just use the carborundum discs until they either get too small to be of any use...... or snap when I'm careless
Cheers - Phil
So most snap, from someone who wont use a Deremel, I slice me when I'm supposed to be slicing onions.
IanS
Join the club, Ian !! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Bit late to this and I don't know if you have one ML but getting the flexi shaft that fits into the chuck helped no end with control for me
I must admit, Steve.....that's one bit of kit that I keep thinking about purchasing.
Keeping my options open. ;)
Cheers - Phil
For us ( the missus uses it more than me) I does make it safer to use
It does give you more control.
Techno: Shall I post you down my one so you can try it out?
Or will that start a new thread?
I think there only about £20. Dave and Leon should buy you be so you don't have as many oh my god there's blood everywhere quick call an ambulance sick days
Quote from: fsn on 28 September 2017, 09:30:02 AM
Techno: Shall I post you down my one so you can try it out?
No, Matey...
Very, very kind of you to offer, though :)
I can manage fine with the fat bar steward at the mo'.
Cheers - Phil
Well the offer's there.
It may change the way you Dremel forever. :)
Or it may just add strangulation as a potential hazard. :(
Quote from: Techno on 28 September 2017, 09:54:17 AM
I can manage fine with the fat bar steward at the mo'.
The thing about "that's what she said" jokes is that they're a bit addictive. Once you spot one, then they seem to be all around you (TWSS).
I picked up a pseudo dremmel kit including a flexishaft and lots of other attachments in the local mega hardware shop on the weekend for a very reasonable price as l need it for a range of things....including cutting out some 3mm mdf buildings and drilling holes for masts in Askus 1/3000 printed ships.
I asked the guy in store about cutting blades and he showed me a mini circular saw blade "you can do some damage with that" he said half jokingly ;)
Dont worry Techno l have ear defenders mask and leather gloves and will cut the mdf outside....not taking chances :-SS
That's handy to know ;)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 21 August 2018, 10:26:13 PM
I asked the guy in store about cutting blades and he showed me a mini circular saw blade "you can do some damage with that" he said half jokingly ;)
Like I said on page one of this thread.....I just won't use that ! X_X
Had one of those (thankfully) rare moments yesterday...where the drill bit snapped off inside a model.
Had to get the little sod out, which meant routing out a fair bit of the model...So now I'll have repair that part of the figure.
Pants ! >:(
Cheers - Phil
Been using my (fairly) new toy to drill 1mm mast holes in some 1/3000 ships.....much more accurate than using a hand turned one and works a treat...only on speed 1 and being very careful.
Quote from: pierre the shy on 21 November 2018, 08:29:15 AM
Been using my (fairly) new toy to drill 1mm mast holes in some 1/3000 ships.....
:o You're a braver man that I!
Quote from: pierre the shy on 21 November 2018, 08:29:15 AM
Been using my (fairly) new toy to drill 1mm mast holes in some 1/3000 ships.....much more accurate than using a hand turned one and works a treat...only on speed 1 and being very careful.
That's interesting, Peter.
(I tend to use 0.5....0.7mm drill bits when working on the wee stuff.....and If I'm working on bigger models, I
might go up to 1mm....and on
very rare occasions I'll use a 2mm bit.)
What I've found is that with the really small drill bits is that I have to keep adjusting the Dremmel, (
before I start drilling) otherwise I can see a lot of 'wobble'/ vibration at the very end of the bit.
If I didn't
have to use the Dremmel to bore into the white metal...which seems to get harder and harder, I'd use a pin vise, because I feel I've got a lot more control with that.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 21 November 2018, 01:24:30 PM
That's interesting, Peter.
(I tend to use 0.5....0.7mm drill bits when working on the wee stuff.....and If I'm working on bigger models, I might go up to 1mm....and on very rare occasions I'll use a 2mm bit.)
What I've found is that with the really small drill bits is that I have to keep adjusting the Dremmel, (before I start drilling) otherwise I can see a lot of 'wobble'/ vibration at the very end of the bit.
If I didn't have to use the Dremmel to bore into the white metal...which seems to get harder and harder, I'd use a pin vise, because I feel I've got a lot more control with that.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers - Phil
it's often worth while making a guide-hole with a pin vice before starting up the dremmel - or use the dremmel with 0 power to get a lodgement
What I tend to do, Zippee, is make a wee hole, using the tiniest burr I've got (which must be well under !mm)...as a guide....Very much like you advise.
I still find the really small drill bits 'wobble' at their very tip, until I've adjusted the 'chuck grip' on the Dremmel a few times.....THEN it looks 'right'.
But you're definitely on the right lines, there. :)
Good advice !!
Cheers - Phil
I just use a regular pin to make a start hole. Then either a pin vise with a bit or the Dremel to drill the hole.
That should work fine, 'K'. :)
(I've just got far too many 'odds & sods' that'll do the job. ;))
Cheers - Phil
I don't have or use a Dremmel, but use a small modeling hand drill. Even so, and especially since we are talking very small models, I always use a biology pin (a small wooden dowel [probably plastic today as I've hand mine for 40 years now] with a long pin in the end) to make a starter hole. Then I start drilling with a really small bit, then one a little larger and if need be a larger one. Sounds time consuming but avoids ruining the model most of ht time.
Terry