RotoZip

If you have to ask, I think not.

If you do a lot of drywall work then I expect you already have one.

They do some things well or very well. The advertising people however like to over do it.

The RotoZip came up in a recent rec.woodworking "tools I'm sorry I bought" poll. A router or Dremel tool with a router base can do pretty much all that RotoZip can do, plus the actual stuff each was designed for.

Try Googling.

Barry

I agree in general. If you don't have it, you don't need it. However, Harbor Freight has one for about $20. It works like a rotozip, will last quite a while, is a lot tougher than a dremel, which has to be the flimsiest thing ever made, though it won't go everywhere a dremel will. I have both, and I would not want to live without the dremel tool. But it is wearing out.

For $20, you can't really go wrong.

Which is why if you already have a Dremel and a router, you don't need a RotoZip.

There are good routers out there right now, like the Porter Cable 690 and Bosch 1617 for about $120. They will do everything a RotoZip can, in addition to everything a fixed speed router will do.

I've had great success with RotoZip bits in routers (1/4" bits) and Dremels (1/8" bits).

Barry

I decided the rotozip was pretty cheasy, but I still needed a cutout tool for drywall and other use. I bought the Dewalt and am very happy with it. It appears to be more well-made than my friends rotozip and is more powerful as well. I agree with another poster that the secret is in the blades. I buy rotozip blades and they work great. I have found many uses for my Dewalt where a router would be too bulky. I don't have a dremel tool, but I don't do much fine work. I use a die grinder intsead.

BTW, the angle grinder attachment for the rotozip is even more cheasy. It doesn't even come close to the real thing.

Rotozip has great marketing though!

Cheers--JLD

They're both crap. Professional drywallers wouldn't be caught dead with either. But then how would you know that jaime'.

And I believe you should have stayed out of a usenet help forum. A yahoo chat group suits your bullshit better.

You would be a lot further ahead to buy the DeWalt at a acommercial drywall house. Here, it is about $65.00.