Re: Moderately bad Dremel advice

On  2-May-02 at 03:23, Thomas Barclay (kaladorn@magma.ca) wrote:
> Roger, 
> 
> Your advice is a not so hot bit re: sewing 
> machine pedals. I have a 295 with the Dremel 
> pedal, which was a pain to locate but it gives 
> me 0-30K rpm control. Most modern dremels 
> are graduated from 5K-28 or 35K rpm. The 
> lack of low end speed is a pain. BUT if you have 
> one of the new Dremels, they have a 
> microprocessor controlled feedback system 
> which will BURN OUT the guts if you try to run it 
> with a rheostat (sewing machine pedal or even 
> the dremel pedal) on the input apparently. They 
> say this is "a Very Bad Thing (TM)". So, just as a 
> warning before anyone tries that, make damn 
> sure you know what you're up to and which 
> Dremel model you have. 

I'm glad I have one of the older ones.	The sewing
machine pedal works fine.  Sounds like they have
"improved" it to the point it is a lesser tool.