Dremel holder: do-it-yourself to expand the capabilities of this tool. Homemade dremel with your own hands An economical option without a case

In this article, you can get acquainted with the basic principles of the Dremel device. This article will especially help to understand this article for beginners and novice specialists in the field of construction and repair.
So, let's start, perhaps, with the most basic question, which will introduce us to the Dremel device itself - " What is a dremel?". According to experts, and just amateurs, you can make a kind of definition for a dremel - a special universal device that is designed for cutting metal, powered by electricity from the network. Be careful with the mains voltage so that there are no problems in the future.

What can be done with a dremel?

Also, let's not forget the versatility of the Dremel - with the help of it you can perform heaps of different, but similar in meaning, operations. Who still has not understood what is at stake, then you will have to decipher the above a little: with the help of a dremel, you can cut metal, engrave heavy and durable metals, alloys and chemical compounds. This is much more efficient than just cutting with an ordinary grinder on metal, because the dremel was developed by specialists specifically to increase the pressure of the device itself, as well as increase its effect on metal corrosion. Corrosion is understood here in the sense that the metal is cut during work, destroyed, but does not disappear at all with time. But that's not all - you can also grind, polish, clean the desired areas from unnecessary elements and additional equipment. Agree that this is a fairly wide range of functions that one tool can have.

That is why it is so popular among craftsmen and specialists in repair and construction.
In general, the name of the device itself came directly from the name of the company that was engaged in the production and distribution of this tool - "Dremel". In our country, it is customary to call it that - dremel. It should be noted that the popularity of this tool grew at a very high pace. This was due to the versatility of the device - after all, buying several tools, you see, is not so convenient than buying one, but reliable. Even if it is more expensive, but the quality, as you know, will always justify both the price and expectations. Therefore, never chase the price. Following one campaign, many organizations began to sell and distribute dremels, who were confident that the release of these products in the initial stages of the development of the device would certainly lead them to success. And they were not mistaken - the dremel received great recognition and popularity among the people, as well as among specialists. It should be noted those models that were most popular and in demand among craftsmen: these are dremels of the 300 series, as well as models from Stern and Ferm.
Now let's talk about the technical characteristics of the device. It should be emphasized that there is no difference what brand of device you will use in your work - they are all similar and the principle of their operation is the same. The only difference between the tools is the amount of electricity supplied, the number of revolutions, as well as ease of use. We did not particularly notice other significant shortcomings and differences in the models. But for those who have to work with metal somewhere in the forest or in areas remote from electricity, there is a separate option - the use of battery models and Dremel installations.
Well, for those who simply cannot connect the installation to a powered connector, they are given the opportunity to use compact models. Do not be afraid that the lower the power, the worse the Dremel will show itself in work. This is not at all the case - with almost any energy supplied, the Dremel will always work efficiently and rationally. But it also happens when the required revolutions are either too few or too many. What then to do? It is for this that the developers have provided for the introduction of a special speed controller into the installation. Thanks to him, you can always, without changing the setting, either lower or increase the number of revolutions of the dremel. Therefore, where fine and accurate work is needed, the speed can be reduced to a minimum, and where it will be necessary to cut a thick layer of metal, it can be increased to a maximum.
In addition to the device itself, you can also purchase various additional attachments that will greatly facilitate your work in polishing, metal carving. But this is done in extreme cases - in fact, such nozzles should be supplied directly with the dremel itself, which means that there should be exactly as many of them as almost any master can need. There is no need to look for special nozzles in the markets and from friends, because this is your first device, and therefore you yourself do not really know what nozzles are needed, and which ones will simply lie modestly on a shelf. In order to avoid wasting money and time, you can use all the set that the developers offer you.
The most popular nozzles you may need: cutting discs, special cleaning discs, polishing discs, and engraving attachments. Well, there is already a branching of nozzles into subtypes and classes, into which you should not be introduced from the very beginning.
Another plus that the developers gave us is the introduction of a special portable suitcase into the kit. It will be very useful to you in your work - there are special departments for nozzles, discs, keys, pens and other additional installation elements. If your choice is a cheap dremel, then an appropriate carrying case will be provided. Therefore, it is better to save money and buy a normal device, so that later you do not blame the campaign as material.
A specific element of the Dremel installation is the presence special flexible shaft, which will greatly help to facilitate your work, and will also greatly improve the quality of the work performed. The main plus of using the handle is ease of use, as well as lightness in the truest sense of the word. After all, it will be much easier to hold a special handle than a regular stationery marker. The flexible shaft also comes with other additional elements, such as a tripod, additional mounts, special keys, and a clamp. All of them help you to make the flexible shaft even more convenient, which will allow you to get the most out of your work.

And, perhaps, the most important question that beginners ask when buying is “what should I pay attention to before buying a dremel?”.

The answer, of course, depends on your goals and intentions, but there are a few details that must be present. The first thing to do is to test each mode of the dremel immediately upon purchase, so that when moving from slow to fast speeds, your face or other parts of the body will not be subjected to an injury-prone situation.

The next step is the absence of extraneous sounds, such as squeaking, crackling, rustling, etc. All this will only emphasize the defective product. The vibration that occurs when the dremel and metal are touched should not be large so that the device does not fly out of your hands or something. It is also desirable to check the performance of the flexible shaft and its functionality.
So, a dremel is an indispensable tool in the arsenal of any master and specialist in repair and construction. After all, you will always need to cut metal, sooner or later, but still you will need it. But be careful when buying - make sure that everything works, there are no suspicions, because the speed of revolutions that the dremel has will allow you to lose limbs in a matter of seconds.

Popular brands of dremels

Of the most popular brands and manufacturers of dremel can be called

• Bosch (Bosch)
• Skil (Skill)
• Ferm
• Hammer (Hammer)

It should be noted that the Chinese “analogues” flooded the market, so be careful when choosing a dremel - do not buy, for example, instead of Bosch - Bosh - the practice of forgery has become very common, I’ll tell you from experience that they don’t even take the “Chinese” for repairs ...

Dremel example:

DIY glass Christmas balls

Making such original decorations is quite simple. The Dremel® 3000 multifunctional tool, in combination with a special nozzle, acts as an engraver, with which we apply the initial pattern to the glass balls. Please note that engraving work is carried out on a special soft cloth pad to avoid damage to the ball when pressed hard. When working with the engraver, be careful and be sure to use safety glasses. After applying the glue mass with a gun, immediately proceed to the next step - sprinkling with sparkles, while the glue has not cooled down. If you do not have time, do not worry, carefully remove the glue with a small knife and try again.

In order to make such Christmas decorations with your own hands, you will need:

MATERIALS:

• clear and silver glitter glue sticks
• transparent glass Christmas balls with a diameter of 8 mm
• white and "crystal" sequins
• hand towel / soft cloth

INSTRUMENTS:

• Dremel glue gun
• Dremel® 3000 tool
• flexible shaft Dremel 225
• diamond-coated circular nozzle 7105
• protective glasses

1. Using an engraver, apply a snowflake pattern to a glass ball. Don't put in too much effort.

2. Using a gun, apply a thin layer of glue along the lines of the engraved snowflakes.

Good time of the day, dear readers of this article, today I want to tell you how to assemble a simple boron machine ( Dremel) at home. I needed it for glass engraving. I couldn’t afford to buy a factory one, in our city the cheapest one costs 7000 tenge (1500r) and the branded BOSCH is 22000 tenge (4500r). For that kind of money, honestly, the toad is strangling, I collected the same thing for 1500 tenge (300r). The most expensive engine turned out.

12 V motor, 1250 rpm. Also bought a cartridge. For convenience, I wanted to do it with reverse, with the help of 2 buttons it turned out to be not realistic. After killing the whole evening for experiments, I came to the conclusion of the simplest circuit, using 2 buttons and 1 switch.

Unfortunately, there are no photos of the assembly process, but I will try to describe in more detail. For the base, a plastic tube 100 mm long was taken. It had 3 holes drilled for the switch and control buttons, as well as a longitudinal cutout for the switch.

Everything is assembled by surface mounting, a tangle of wires is located just inside the pipe. A hole was drilled in the cap of a Coca-Cola bottle for a power socket.

At the very beginning, a 12 V 1 A power supply was used, but, unfortunately, it left along with the first work-painting for the girl. After that, the plug of the water socket was found and the power began to be taken from the computer PSU.

For convenience, the wire was crimped with fork lugs on the second side. When the power button is turned on, the power indicator lights up.

This completes the assembly of the device, photos of the finished device:

I mainly use abrasive tips, although there are no others on sale separately.

When cleaning in the garage, an old tool case was found, the device just fit in it like a native.

Video

Also, the device can be used for drilling printed circuit boards. And finally, the work performed by this engraver.

Quite often it happens that when working with a dremel, it is more convenient to hold the workpiece in your hands and fix the dremel itself. To do this, you can use the holder, the manufacture of which we want to tell you in today's article.

How to make a homemade holder for working with a dremel

To make this device, you will need quite a bit:

• a piece of board;
• a pair of clamps, the size of which allows them to completely cover the tool body;
• two M8 screws with nuts on them.

Before starting work, you should make sure that the selected clamps are able to completely cover the body of the dremel. Having done this, you can start working with a wooden base. In this case, the following operations are performed:

• the longitudinal center line of the board used as the base is determined;
• the distance between the nuts of the clamps previously put on the dremel body is measured;

• the measured distance is plotted in the center of the center line of the board, which allows you to determine the drilling locations and make appropriate marks;
• holes for M8 screws are drilled according to the marks;
• so that the screw heads are flush with the surface of the board, countersinking is performed;

About other ways to beautifully hide the head of a screw or self-tapping screw,.

When determining the dimensions of the dremel under which we are making a stand, we noticed that its front part is 5 mm thinner than the back. In order for our tool to stand straight on the holder, it is necessary to shorten the screw to support the back by 5 mm.

After that, the screws can be inserted into the drilled holes and secured with nuts. Clamps can already be fastened to the screws fixed in this way.

Now, in the installed clamps, you can also fix the dremel itself.

As you can see, the manufacture of this device is not difficult. The manufactured holder is not only simple, but also very cheap. The author of this "masterpiece" claims that the total cost of the parts he used is about 70 rubles.

Greetings dear readers! It's nice when a person has his own hobby, I'm really happy for these people and I find them interesting and fulfilling. I also love to do things in my free time. But I rate my skills between two and three. Either you want to cut a carved bench into a bathhouse, or a stool from an array into a garage. It seems that no one needs a craft, but the soul is resting. To do this, use the usual carpentry tool. And when it comes to small local crafts, be it sculpture, engraving, carving, polishing. This is where the dremel becomes indispensable. When I was offered to make a review on the dremel that had already been on the pages of Muska, I agreed, because the truth does not fade from repetition. Under the cut there will be disassembly and examples of use and attention, a lot of photos !!!

Packaging and equipment

The Dremel comes in its original packaging with a picture of the tool and some promotional information.


The main characteristics are drawn on the side of the box.


On the other side of the box is the same print.


Description of accessories from the second side.


Above, only the name of the manufacturer in large


The box contains a set of 30 different abrasive nozzles.


The set is closed with a transparent plastic lid, each nozzle sits in its seat


Here is a closer nozzle. Everyone will find a suitable one.




The length of each nozzle is about 45 mm


Included is a convenient nozzle for vertical milling, with setting the distance of immersion in the material.



They gave us goggles as a gift.


And then in a bag in bulk they put us a lot of adaptations for a home master
Here is all this scattering


Cutting discs


Different size collets, Spare brushes


Polishing felt wheels and original nozzle + special nozzle for fixing wheels


A large set of emery wheels in two sizes and special nozzles for them



Includes 2 wrenches for tightening nozzles in the chuck


Nozzle for setting cutting wheels.


Brush attachments


Various options for cones



2 drills


The most pleasant accessory for me is the flexible shaft.








It allows you to work without straining, just holding it like a pen.


Appearance
Dremel Made in bright red color.


The sticker shows the model.


There is a special black skirt in order to comfortably hold the dremel tip


Here is the spec sticker. The Dremel has a power of 180W and develops up to 30,000 rpm.

- Here is the speed controller


There is a special bracket for hanging the dremel when working with a flexible shaft


Metal "button" for tightening nozzles in the cartridge.


European fork



To replace the brushes, you don’t have to disassemble the Dremel, there are special 2 compartments for their hot replacement, you just need to wrap 2 covers on the sides

Disassembly

Exploitation

In order to show the "ability" of the dremel, you can come up with a lot of scenarios.
I have 2 cats “on the farm”, or rather a cat and a cat, since we live in the private sector, they are left to their own devices and walk freely on their own. If the cat is not yet very active, then the cat is a real CAT. Can leave for a week, come thin but satisfied. And so that in these wild times his mistress would not add gray hair, I decided to try to make a plate on the collar, on which the nickname and our phone number would be written, if someone finds this beast, when he goes crazy from hormones and cannot return home, they will call "his family." In general, there has already been an attempt at such plates, I ordered from an advertising agency, they were made of plastic and swore that it was of high quality ...
Like these ones


But in fact they served no more than a week and were lost and gnawed.

I got very high quality strips of stainless steel, 1mm thick.



But the trouble is, I tried to drill a hole, and ... failed, 5 dead drills, from different manufacturers and 0 effect. I thought that here I was waiting for a fiasco. But the dremel pleased.
I loaded the cutting disc, and let's cut :)


Cut out an approximate shape


Ennobled a little


On the other side


I took out the engraving tips from the set and began to try my hand ...


Oh, this is hard work...
It can be seen that clumsily, but this is a test sample.
I still have to drill a hole for the ring from the collar.
It’s unrealistic to do this with just a drill, so at first I shot it with a small cutter. And then, when a tiny hole had already become visible, he “finished off” with a drill. As a result, the drill is killed :)


But the result is achieved, though ugly, but the result.


Here is the disk after all the work, it is clear that once I freaked out and jerked sharply, a triangle broke off from the disk ... in general, ghxyst disks do an excellent job with such a strong stainless steel, with hardened self-tapping screws, but fragile in this direction.




Then I decided to “grind” the surface a little, the nozzle with sandpaper did an excellent job with this.


Then he ennobled a little with a cutter






It took a lot of work to carefully engrave the number on the back, but it didn’t work out to hang the craft on the cat, he hasn’t been at home for half a week ...
After such work, here is the state of the cutting disc.
It was

It became

Then I made a small table out of plywood. But there were no suitable screws, they were slightly longer than the thickness of the plywood. I was too lazy to go to the store, the table was not for the exhibition, to help myself.


In the end it looked like this


there is nothing pleasant here, you can easily hurt your hand ...
so a couple of light movements with a dremel with a cutting disc and voila.


Maybe the photo does not convey, but by touch there is no feeling that something is sticking out. Everything is smooth. A self-tapping screw cuts off such a disk in seconds, with a fountain of spray.

And I considered the third option for using it purely in everyday life. My son has a railroad. In fact, it is plastic, and in the semaphore zone, the son broke off the plastic lever for stopping the train “on red”, just gluing it did not work ...
The photo was not there screenshots from the video so I hid it under the spoiler

Sometimes it happens that ideas come to mind that cannot be implemented without certain tools. There is nothing worse for a craftsman than to realize his own impotence in such a situation.
One of the tools that people who do not have enough finances dream of is a dremel. And, if there is not enough money to buy it, then why not make it yourself ?!

Batteries 9V (2 pcs.)
Connectors for 9V batteries (2 pcs.)
Switches (to turn on the tool and power switch)
Insulating tape
Electric motor 9-18V
Mounting wires, preferably black and red
Wire cutters and wire stripper
Cardboard (2-3 sheets)
Scissors
In one of the images you can see the glue, but it was not needed - it was successfully replaced by electrical tape.

We need to connect all the elements of the circuit into a chain so that the resulting dremel will work.


Take a piece of red wire, divide it into three parts, strip the ends and connect the switches and the motor in series with it.

After that, take the battery connectors and strip the ends of the wires coming from them. Twist together the positives from each connector and the red wire connecting the motor and switches. Insulate the joints with tape.


Then take a piece of black wire and, having also stripped the ends, twist it with black (“minus”) wires coming from the connectors. Then connect the resulting elongated black wire to the engine, closing the circuit.

Roll the cardboard around the motor and secure it with a piece of duct tape.


Estimate on the resulting case where it will be more convenient to place the switches. Place them so that you can turn on the dremel with your thumb, and turn on the power with your little finger. Use scissors to cut holes large enough to fit the switches.


Then seal the edges of the holes with electrical tape - this way the design will look neater, and the switches will sit tighter in their sockets.

Attach the batteries to the connectors hanging from the back of the cardboard case and secure them with tape. If the case doesn't look strong enough to hold all the pieces, add more cardboard.

Congratulations! You have assembled half of the dremel with your own hands.

It remains to solve the problem with the bit holder. We will need epoxy, a syringe, a knife and a drill or cutter that needs to be fixed to the tool.
Fill the syringe with epoxy mixed with hardener. Try to avoid bubbles.


Insert the motor axis into the syringe and wait until the resin hardens.
So, we have a piece of plastic on the axis of the engine.


Turn on our homemade dremel and with a knife, cut off the excess, give the plastic a cone shape.
Now we have a crucial step - it is necessary to drill a hole in the center of the cone.


After that, we have a great bit holder. You can insert a drill and test its operation. You can fix the drill with superglue. It does not adhere to metal very well, so the drill on the dremel can be replaced. You can make a separate holder for each drill, because the materials are not expensive.
The author claims that the accuracy of the tool is very high and surpasses cheap engravers and drills.

As a result, we got a homemade dremel, assembled completely with our own hands. It certainly doesn't have the durability and precision of expensive branded instruments. But it will fit perfectly in cases where you are short of money, but you simply need it for work.