🚀 go-pugleaf

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. 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.

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