🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:17:40 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>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.

It seems it costs a lot of money to get a decent color.  The Tek
scopes at work have gawd-awful trace colors.  Not only are they
"fruity", they're hard to see.
 
>>> 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.

We talked about that before.  I *love* the Bosch "Impactor" as a
screwdriver.  I can even drive large Phillips screws without chewing
up the heads.  It's the neatest tool I've bought in a long time.