Dremet Multi tool

They are brilliant, the best, and vastly over-priced.

If you want to do a once off job, a clone will be fine.

If you keep looking at Aldi/Lidl each week their clone of this drill will be on sale again shortly,for £14.99 with a range of tools and the stand.

Thanks guys. I am very weary of clone or imitation products.....bit of a stickler for "you get what you pay for".

They (and the perfectly good cheap imitations) are ideal for many other things. For example, I use one, with a suitable diamond cylindrical tool, to chase out cracks so that they can be filled, rather than covered over. One with a cutting disk will slice off the hardened bolt of a padlock in a minute or two - getting in where other tools will not reach. I keep one in the car...just in case. One in an NC milling machine will do very nice engravings..

But I wouldn't use one for polishing cylinder heads or inlet manifolds. It is more likely to add surface ripples and effects than remove them. They have a very small working area which is not ideal for producing large smooth flowing contours.

I've got a couple of the Aldi/Lidl clones and they are ok up to a point. The flexible drive onna stick that came with one of them is particularly naff. You do get what you pay for with tools in the long run.