Timeline for Is there anything a rotary tool can do that a oscillating multi-tool can't?
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| Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07 | comment | added | SchwartzE | I have used my Dremel tool with a router attachment for some very basic woodworking and it worked quite well. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 13:18 | comment | added | Michael | @KarlKatzke Oh... that makes a lot more sense. :) Yeah, I can imagine that would work pretty well. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 4:42 | comment | added | Karl Katzke | Actually, you don't use a cutoff wheel when cutting drywall... You use a straight cutting bit with a washer on the end of it so that you can put the drywall against any electrical boxes and then use the electrical box as a template without harming the box, it's contents, or the framing. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 2:27 | comment | added | Michael | Jay added both Dremel and RotoZip, actually. :) After looking at them at Lowes, they seem pretty similar, though the RotoZips were all in one size: BIG! Both Dremel & RotoZip had a mini-router version and both had traditional rotary tools. I gathered that the RotoZips had only one speed (30k RPM) and the Dremels had 10 speeds, but that was about it. I'm gunna have to sit down and figure this stuff out, though I have to say I'm a little surprised people like the rotaries for cutting drywall. Seems like a pretty deep cut... must be using some rather large cutoff wheels. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 2:01 | comment | added | Joe | it looks like Jay changed it. Michael originally said 'Dremel MultiTool', not RotoZip. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 1:15 | comment | added | Karl Katzke | I don't see any reference in the original question as to what tool he was looking at... Just the mention of a roto-zip. I think it'd be difficult to etch small letters (bicycle frame) with a tool that large, but for larger etching (side of a saw or tool box) I would have no problem using the roto-zip sized tools, and would definitely use a roto-zip for the other tasks I identified. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 0:56 | comment | added | Joe | I've used the smaller Dremel tools (both a corded stick & battery stylus) for etching, but are the larger models (I think he's looking at the 'Tri Multi-Tool', which is how Sears has the Trio labeled), easy enough to control for etching? | |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 23:48 | history | answered | Karl Katzke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |