🚀 go-pugleaf

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.


> 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.  ;-)