![]() ![]() In that same vein… Why wouldn’t you just buy the Dremel batteries? Every time I read a Dremel article about the Cordless batteries, everyone is up in arms over them not being Bosch batteries… I wish someone would explain this phenomena to me. “If I Had A Million Dollars (If I had a Million Dollars) I like to quote a pleasant little band from Canada here, The Barenaked Ladies, with their song “If I Had a Million Dollars”… Except I change the lyric a little for modern accuracy. It need not apply here, it’s beneath them to even line their cheapest, lowest end, model up against any of the mentioned models here. So, yeah… Foredom is here in spirit, just, Foredom speaks for itself. And the companies like Dremel, or Proxxon, appear to be just fine with letting Foredom have that spot, feeling no overt pressure to beat them, or match them. In fact, the 9000’s major tagline for sales was “100% compatible with Foredom hand pieces.” Foredom has a safe perch on top of the rotary tool market, able to do things that the rest just can’t do, due to power output. There most certainly is a Dremel that went up against the Foredom market, the model 9000 Rotary Flex Shaft system, but even that I would prefer a Foredom over the 9000. In this conversation about the value, or competition, of these newly-released Dremel rotary tools, they are obviously in direct competition with the Ryobi releases, and not the raw power that comes out of the Foredom systems. Not so much Ryobi, but that’s truly only because I already have Dremel and DeWALT tools… there’s nothing they can’t do for me, that Ryobi could do better for me. I do, very much, think of Foredom tools along side Dremel and Proxxon, as brands I’m loyal to. I bet you probably didn’t need to know that part, but it does illustrate that Foredom is not lost in the shuffle here. It smells a bit like someone is cooking bacon, but I do end up with smooth heels, and less pain walking. My Dremel 4000, and 8200, are both compatible with things like the 90 degree attachment, or the flex shaft, and especially the EZ Lock mandrels. Not only could I rig up carving and detailing setups with ease, I could do what everyone says not to do, and actually get the dead skin off my feet, without considering the price of a nail salon. ![]() Ceramic Finishing Wheels, and Cotton Polishing Wheels, each in their own self-standing sets.Īs to Foredom… I genuinely want one… Or potentially 5, depending on the chance of affording them. Lee Valley sold (potentially still sells?) two sets of Foredom rotary accessories that my Mother nearly wept over when I bought them for Mother’s Day somewhere around 15 years ago. But I do have an undeniable love of their products. So, much like Proxxon, Foredom doesn’t get checked as often as I used to. This doesn’t seem relevant, but it means I haven’t had the chance to check every single company I like’s offerings, due to a loss of time, and sleep. I have yet to see Proxxon with a comparable Cordless Micromot Rotary Tool, but I’ve been busy lately, and very tired, the Pandemic has ruined my perception of time, so I don’t know how long things have been out, or how long ago they were, or even what time it usually is. So, the direct comparisons for them are at the forefront of the brain for this. They aren’t battery operated, nor are they in the same category of rotary tools as these hand-held releases. Of course the Foredom may well be outside someone’s budget but I don’t think it’s so out of line they are to be excluded.įoredom is not lost in my mind, if that helps, Jim. In my opinion being cordless isn’t much of an advantage for a high-speed rotary tool so unless you, the buyer, have very specific requirements a flex-shaft tool is probably worth considering, especially with Ryobi offering a couple different models. But 95% of the time I use a tool like that it’s for working on something fairly small that’s easy to bring to wherever the tool is. The Minicrafts could run straight off a car battery and had more power than Dremel, but they had the silly design decision of a very short cord so you still had to fool around with extensions unless you were working within two feet of the battery. In that case a cordless tool would have been great–I remember the hassle of dragging out an extension cord to run old school Dremels. Sometimes I’d use one for an automotive application. Before I discovered die grinders I used Dremels and Minicraft DC powered rotary tools. But I think the distinction isn’t all that important when most of the work these tools do can easily be be “brought to the tool”. I agree with you that a flex-shaft is a fundamentally different tool from a cordless rotary tool like these Dremels.
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