Anyone use a Dremel?

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

Good idea, I just put it down to cool off and do something else.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allyn" <amalventano1@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Greg Pallett'" <greg.rocco@xxxxxxxxx>; "'Scirocco list'" 
<scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:04 PM
Subject: RE: Anyone use a Dremel?


> Dremels that have vent holes have a fan on the rotor.  Air movement 
> results from rotation speed.  Running the dremel at low speeds
> and higher loads (loading down the bit, resulting in higher current draw) 
> will result in high heat levels.  The best way to cool it
> off is to run it low/med with no load at all.  You will note initially 
> high air exhaust temp, but it will cool down after a minute
> or two.  You can then resume dremeling (at a lower load if you want to 
> last longer).
> HTH
> Al
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Pallett [mailto:greg.rocco@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:39 PM
>> To: Scirocco list
>> Subject: OT: Anyone use a Dremel?
>>
>> Anyone here a frequent user of Dremel tools?  I've just come
>> in from the garage after an evening of using my new Dremel
>> 400XPR.  The wheel refinishing project is going fine.  So why
>> the email?
>> The damn thing gets hot.  Really hot.  I didn't burn my
>> fingertips, but it got pretty uncomfortable.  It seems like
>> this is a pretty bad quality, tha tthe part you hold gets
>> frealin' hot...
>> ANyone else have this happen?
>>
>> GP
>>
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