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krw wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:00:52 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> krw wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:13:00 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>>>> "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>>> news:7ai5luF1ur1mbU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>> I usually spent a lot more time on the enclosures than on the electronics 
>>>>>> but the stuff is still working.
>>>>> Didn't anyone tell you that dovetail joints were optional? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Just kidding.  I can't imagine even you would have chiseled out dovetail 
>>>>> joints (since I'm thinking those dovetail jigs you use with a router didn't 
>>>>> exist for the casual home woodworker back then)...
>>>>>
>>>> I didn't go that far but I polished and stained the corners until you 
>>>> couldn't really see where things butted up anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Saw a contractor commercial lately about the Fein Multimaster. Drooling 
>>>> all over the place. Fein is "the" electric tool company in Germany, only 
>>>> the good stuff. You had to call a 1-800 number to find out the price and 
>>>> that should have been a dead give-away. Well, found it on the Internet, 
>>>> saw the prices of spare inserts and decided that I do not need it this 
>>>> urgently.
>>> Fein is simply crazy expensive.  I looked at their routers over the
>>> weekend.  I wasn't impressed, for 4X what a Bosch or PC costs.  Bosch
>>> has a "Multi-Master type tool ("Multi-X", I think) that's a lot
>>> cheaper and looks just as good (Li-Ion battery, though).  A little
>>> lower down the line, Dremmel has a copy for $100ish.  If you want to
>>> go cheap, HarborFreight has one for $40.  The reports are decent,
>>> acknowledging that it's a $40 tool.  The only real complaint is that
>>> the blades loosen.  
>>>
>> The $40 version will be good enough for me.
> 
> But it's ugly orange.  ;-)  I think I'll spring for the Bosch.  I want
> to rip up some bamboo flooring and inlay a hearth in front of our
> fireplace.  I can't figure out another way to make the cuts against
> the wall.
> 

Look at the bright side: It could be worse. My Chinese meters here are 
bonbon-purple. Channel 3 on my DSO is bonbon-pink.

> 
>> I've used Fein drills, they 
>> are really top notch. I think grampa's drill in the garage is a Fein. 
>> About 100 years old, works like a champ.
> 
> I now have seven cordless drills (will likely give one to my son).  I
> just bought a little Bosch 12V Li-Ion to match the impact driver.  100
> years ago a cordless drill was a brace and bit.  ;-)


I am very impressed with the little Durafix single Li-Ion pistol-style 
electric screwdriver. $15. We had to build a large step box for our 
Rottie because he has trouble getting in and out of the car. The long 
deck screws were hard to turn but it muscled them in. Sure saved me a 
blister.

-- 
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