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also in shop talk
Apr. 9th, 2022 01:00 pmA few weeks ago a friend of mine bought a dremel tool press - like a drill press, but for use with your dremel tool - and I was all "don't buy the dremel press it's shite and doesn't work" at him on Twitter.
Mine always did this kind of very-slight-arc bullshit on the way up and down, and as soon as the tool on the end made contact with the material I was trying to work it would slide over a bit, defeating the entire point of having a press. I always imagined it was just because of being way too flimsy and made for maybe balsa and foam or some bullshit like that where it didn't matter.
But he was doing something with metal and reported that his worked fine, so last night I finally took my useless one properly apart - like, past user-assembly apart...
...and found the internal manufacturing defect.
There's a tightening bolt inside mine that wasn't because the nut it was threaded into wasn't, or wasn't properly, threaded. I fixed that, and hey look, now it works.
Go fig.
I mean, stability's still a bit soft because plastics, right? But now it's genuinely just "because plastics" and not "because not bolted down right." So I'm still not a huge fan but at least now it goes straight up and down. xD
Mine always did this kind of very-slight-arc bullshit on the way up and down, and as soon as the tool on the end made contact with the material I was trying to work it would slide over a bit, defeating the entire point of having a press. I always imagined it was just because of being way too flimsy and made for maybe balsa and foam or some bullshit like that where it didn't matter.
But he was doing something with metal and reported that his worked fine, so last night I finally took my useless one properly apart - like, past user-assembly apart...
...and found the internal manufacturing defect.
There's a tightening bolt inside mine that wasn't because the nut it was threaded into wasn't, or wasn't properly, threaded. I fixed that, and hey look, now it works.
Go fig.
I mean, stability's still a bit soft because plastics, right? But now it's genuinely just "because plastics" and not "because not bolted down right." So I'm still not a huge fan but at least now it goes straight up and down. xD
