Fixed Dremel Vacuum Rotary Tool!

[firworks]

I posted a video like a week or so ago of the Dremel Vaccum Rotary Tool sucking it up. Not in a good way.

Just like AvE mine was junk and was incapable of doing anything really. I kept thinking about it and eventually just took it apart to poke around inside. I found that the bearings were no good. Either they were never lubricated or the lubricant degraded but the thing turned like it was in Molasses. I soaked down the bearings with some PTFE spray and it's a whole new tool. It's fixed!

It's still really whimpy but it can kinda do stuff now. At least as well as a 4.8V rotary tool which is what the packaging claims.

I did a video revisiting the same things I tried before showing how it works now, along with showing the innards.
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I'm still hoping Dremel will contact somebody who's made a video on this thing to get an idea what's really going on. Seems like maybe a supply chain problem resulting in everyone getting garbage?

 

[bry@n]

You should contact the comapny regarding what you've done.

 

[f575gtc]

Still....I can't understand why this tool exists in the first place....

 

[firworks]

You should contact the comapny regarding what you've done.

I would like to but I'm not sure how to contact them. Just going through their normal customer support I imagine would get no where. There are a lot of call centers here surprisingly and just about everyone I know has worked at one. Those people don't have any way of contacting the parent company if there are repeating issues. The only way anything happens is off metrics of ticket types and warranty part costs. I did post a message on the official video for the tool hoping to get a social media person to respond but nothing so far. Maybe I'll try Twitter.

Still....I can't understand why this tool exists in the first place....

It... probably still shouldn't. At 9$ though it is cheaper than their MightyMite and might actually be worth it for the bits it comes with. The Drywall bit is 3-4$, There's a sanding drum mandrel and 3 sanding drums as well. Probably worth a buck or two. The high speed cutter bit is like 4-5$. You're basically to the purchase price.

For the right person in the right circumstance it might actually make sense to buy it. Someone who already has a huge shop-vac, no rotary tool, no oscillating multi tool, and wants to cut a small hole in drywall, and only has 9$ for tools.

As I said in the video (or maybe the website article? ) I prefer it to a drywall saw. I really hate using those.

 

[winlinmac]

firworks deserves commission for fixing a flaw of someone's product
Btw, it's $9.99 on Lowes.com, select In-Store Pickup if you feel inclined

 

[cheechi]

Still....I can't understand why this tool exists in the first place....

I can see it being useful cutting drywall and then vacuuming the dust immediately in one step. Maybe also stone/tile etching?

Not that I'd buy one, but I can see the use in that. Dremels have a lot of varied use on jobsites, some guys have none some have 3. And most of them die from dust inhalation so to speak.

 

[firworks]

firworks deserves commission for fixing a flaw of someone's product
Btw, it's $9.99 on Lowes.com, select In-Store Pickup if you feel inclined

You probably don't have to reserve one. No one will be "beating you to them"

I can see it being useful cutting drywall and then vacuuming the dust immediately in one step. Maybe also stone/tile etching?

Not that I'd buy one, but I can see the use in that. Dremels have a lot of varied use on jobsites, some guys have none some have 3. And most of them die from dust inhalation so to speak.

I find my Dremel to be useful in random small ways. Every once in a while I'll come up with something and go the Dremel could do this, break it out, cut or shape something and be done. I couldn't really see using one every day except in some pretty specific types of jobs. It's like an oscillating multi tool: horrible at most jobs, but a few things you bust it out and it is just perfect for.

I am hoping someone else comments on my video or website that they tried this fix on their own and it worked. I'd like to go to Dremel and say "Here's the problem with your tool. You might want to fix it if you are still producing them in the future." but I don't want to go in with one data point. I'm not one of the Mythbusters.