Improving handling on your Dremel (Stylus style) BETA!!

How to improve handling and control on your Dremel Multi, in BETA version for now. This is student-budget style.

Always remember to clamp down your workpiece!! Always!!

Any comments and tips for design-improvements will be greatly appreciated.

Step 1 What You Need:

- A Dremel
- A piece of roundwood (for a handle)
- A hoseclamp
- A piece of sheetmetal
- Some screws
- Tools (woodsaw, screwdriver, vise, plyers, etc)
- Bandage

Comments

[Kubuntu]

'If you didn't clamp it down, use your bandage.' Love it. :)

[curious youth]

or just buy a dremel shaped in that way ?

[Theodor]

Yes, but that would cost money. Back when I made this Instructable the Stylus was just recently released (my inspiration for this project), and quite expensive. Also, at the time I was a student, and generally broke. Plus I already had a Dremel.

Second, where is the fun in just buying everything if you can make for yourself. Making is a learning experience, you know.

Lastly, just buying one wouldn't make for a very exiting Instructable, now would it?

"Step 1.
Buy Dremel Stylus..."

Boring :)

[curious youth]

Good points i would agree with you there.

I was thinking of the sturdiness. How solid is it?

Id have a laugh out of that. I love smarta**y things like that :)

[Theodor]

Actually, it outlasted that particular Dremel. And the next as well (I am on my fourth Dremel so far, think this one will last. Inherited a Proxxon, and am using that for the really heavy duty stuff). Quite sturdy, didn't flex at all. However, when using this attachment, you're not doing the toughest jobs. It's more for precision work. Which the Dremel is in it self to a certain extent...

[Coffee bean]

You can't use it with a cut-of wheel.

[Theodor]

Haven't beeen an issue so far, though. Why do you say that? 

[lemminggenocide]

it looks like the handle is blocking the vent D: could that cause any damage to the dremel itself?

[Theodor]

I know, it looks that way. But on this Dremel-model, the vents are separated by a solid strip (which is where I placed the handle). So no, it won't block the vents :)

[jeasterlingtech]

add a strip of innertube under the clamp it will reduce slippege and allow a better grip at lower clamp pressure IMHO

[Coffee bean]

The smart I will surely make this!

[radiorental]

this is cool. You might find it a bit more stable/durable if you folded the metal under the clip and back over. Also, if you havent tried it, look at the flexible extension for the dremels. I never hold the dremel any more, highly recommended,.