On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:56:16 -0500, you wrote:
>quality of the shaft and its bearings its turning in. The dremel with its >rubber mounted output shaft, even on the cable driven hand piece, would be >an absolute disaster. I can remember the first dremel I ever wore out back >in the 50's while building a 15 second 1/4 mile flathead 49 Mercury engine, >the cutter wheel chuck was rigidly mounted to the motor armature and one >could to .001" accuracy by hand with it. Todays version may have 3x the >motor power, but it also has a chuck running in its own rubber mounted >bearings that can be pushed .020" in any direction by hand. No way in hell >can you carve a PCB trace that is truly precise with that, and it amazes me >that folks even try. You guys must have different Dremels over your side of the pond :) I have a Dremel Professional 398 and the shaft is rigid. Well, as rigid as you can get roller bearings in a plastic case, I know that's true as I replaced the bearings a while ago. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
