Topic: Recommend me a dremmel clone.

I have allways been a beleiver in tha adage with tools of " buy good, buy once" but my barely 3 year old and very little use dremmel has let out the majic smoke. Anybody got any experience with other brands. Never had any issues with Axminster power tools but what about Ldl cheapos? http://www.lidl.dk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_dk/hs.xsl/index_13893.htm

Hi Danish,

I have a Power Craft from Aldi - think it cost about twelve quid - just keeps chugging.

Bob

I have to say all of the tools I have had from Lidl have been very good - I've had Garden power tools, Allen wrenches, Sockets, Hobby knives and all sorts - never had any reason to complain despite them costing no more than B & Q stuff. 
They also come with a pretty decent warranty on them I think, I would go for it - at the price if it only lasts as long as the branded one you will be quids in!! 

I got something very similar to that from Lidl back around 2005. It worked fine if a little noisy. Mine was mains powered and came with a stand and flexi drive. I passed it on to  a full size vintage aircraft restorer friend when I left the UK in 2007.

I really missed it so I got me a cordless Dremel last Autumn on a visit to the UK 

B&Q are doing a Dremel at half price £29 squids and with Wednesday discount thats £26 . 
I have a lidl or Aldi one , so old I forget which one its from !
stig

Have you tried going back to dremel? Got to be worth an e-mail. The very worst they can do is tell you to p**s off.

Have you tried contacting Dremel . A friend of mine had the same sort of problem as you and Dremel replaced his FOC.

I think Dremel are now part of the Bosch group

http://www.dremeleurope.com/gb/en/meta/contact.html

All the dremels I have ever used (at work, mates etc) have always felt a bit cheaply made.  I bought myself a nice little proxxon rotary tool (well, two actually), and they are fantastic.  Really quiet, nice and smooth, and very solidly built.

Andy

All the dremels I have ever used (at work, mates etc) have always felt a bit cheaply made.  I bought myself a nice little proxxon rotary tool (well, two actually), and they are fantastic.  Really quiet, nice and smooth, and very solidly built.

I have a Proxxon too.  They're not cheap mind.  I would agree with the suggestion to go to Dremel and see what they have to offer.  I've often been agreeably surprised by manufacturers' responses to an honest approach about failing products.

another vote here for Aldi tools, i have two of their mini drills, one fitted with the flexidrive, and one fitted with the chuck from a dremmel (dont need collets) and they have both outlasted my Dremel by a good two years and they have a three year warranty if i remember correctly dremmel went poof!! with the smoke a week after its warranty expired so did it, and dremmel ! didn,t answer e mail.

cj

another vote here for Aldi tools, i have two of their mini drills, one fitted with the flexidrive, and one fitted with the chuck from a dremmel (dont need collets) and they have both outlasted my Dremel by a good two years and they have a three year warranty if i remember correctly dremmel went poof!! with the smoke a week after its warranty expired so did it, and dremmel ! didn,t answer e mail.

cj

And another for the flwxidrive version. Mine is hooked on the back of the bench so I can just grab the flexi shaft and use it wherever. Generally I leave a permagrit 3mm rod in it as that's the most generally used tool for me, but I have the permagrit cutting wheels close at hand too.

Definitely worth shelling out for permagrit stuff - I got a selection for Crimble and there hasn't been a building session where I haven't used them.

Permagrit tools, I have been using them for donkeys years. I think I bought my first ones just after I got off the Ark!

Thanks for the reminder about Permagrit. 

I've just sent the home page to SWMBO for my impending 65th BD. 

Just an fyi that Lidl have one on Monday 23 Jan   

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_27980.htm

Steve

Permagrit tools, I have been using them for donkeys years. I think I bought my first ones just after I got off the Ark!

Now I've seen the catalogue and received a fine grit square file I recognise a tool I've had since my early teens as the coarse version of the same thing.

It's been used to hack away at concrete, metal, wood, all sorts of stuff and apart from the writing on the handle wearing off, it's good as new!

 

Just bought one of these Aldi cheap jobs and what a P.O.S. it is.. Horrible nasty switch, gutless motor giving nowhere near the revs of a dremmel and it comes with a mains transformer the lead from which to the tool is at best 2 feet long. Useless. Not recommended. So off back to lidll for a refund.

Just bought one of these Aldi cheap jobs and what a P.O.S. it is.. Horrible nasty switch, gutless motor giving nowhere near the revs of a dremmel and it comes with a mains transformer the lead from which to the tool is at best 2 feet long. Useless. Not recommended. So off back to lidll for a refund.

I don't think they would be best pleased if you took an Aldi one back ti Lidl!!

Just bought one of these Aldi cheap jobs and what a P.O.S. it is.. Horrible nasty switch, gutless motor giving nowhere near the revs of a dremmel and it comes with a mains transformer the lead from which to the tool is at best 2 feet long. Useless. Not recommended. So off back to lidll for a refund.

The Aldi ones are normally mains voltage. The Lidl one, being only 12 volt will only be suitable for light work

 Tom

I've got a genuine Dremmel one and a Lidl one at work, when I'm working on a new Fuel bed for an electric fire I tend to reach for the Lidl one because I find it easier to get fine detail with it because it is less powerful. At home I find it an ideal modelling tool and wouldn't swap it for a Dremel!

The original link was out of date, but nice bras an sale Fri I dag!
I got one of those Lidl and it's torqueless!