Aldi Dremel-a-like

Stock up on the acessory kits at 2.49, real dremel cutting discs are horrifically expensive, you get about 10 in the kit. Mini angle grinder always at hand , what not to like ;-)

Adam

I have one, and also a Dremel.

I only ever use the Dremel, because it seems to be much more powerful (more torque) but I do use the Aldi attachments with it. I have never used the flexible drive.

When I bought mine I think the attachments came separately. They were particularly good value.

I've got a Dremel & consider it a waste of space. Cutting discs fall apart in seconds, no welly at all. Its in a box in the workshop somewhere, might as well be in the bin.

I'll have it! :)

Si

My thoughts too. The ads seeing it whipping the top off a nail are very far from my experience. If you want something to do this sort of thing easily get a Fein Multi. I do use a Dremel clone for PCB work etc. So hobby use rather than DIY.

If you're throwing it away, I'll have it! Bought my Dremel back in the '80s - just a plain old single-speed

I wouldn't advise use of the flexible shaft - if you let go of it for some reason it'll wrap itself around the nearest object in seconds. Last time that happened to me it was the mains cord for the Dremel - the bit managed to chew halfway through the cable before I could hit the off switch.

A pair of goggles are essential, always.

Regards,

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Stephen Howard saying something like:

Narsty. If I was using the flexy regularly at a bench, I'd do it via footswitch.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

This is what prompted me to buy it yesterday - sometime in the past year I got a box of the attachments, and was waiting for the tools to re-appear. I was pleasantly surprised to find loads of them there, since I'd originally gone for a dehumidifier.

Hohum... more impulse purchases.

They are good quality too. I was well and truly fed up of paying Dremel and Minicraft (Black & Decker) prices for attachments when I first saw them in Aldi. They are of excellent quality (braces himself for profanity and abuse from certain quarters) and cost a tiny fraction of Dremel and Minicraft prices.

That's what Aldi and Lidl are all about.

Yes. They are rather good. Was so pleased with my first one I bought a second. Spoilt for choice now to use the 'upstairs' or the 'downstairs' item. Absolutely perfect for cutting to length those 1/4" steel potentiometer shafts. Those boxes of bits are unbelievably cheap and I'll buy on sight, even though I've about 10 boxes kicking about. {Summat deeply Freudian to do with being poor when younger and never ever being able to afford the high prices for tooling from B+D, Bosch etc :)