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Price right. It fits my 380 model Dremel tool and works fine. No intructions with it, but I was able to figure it out OK.
Which is great, because I'm getting a 300 series tool :D This accessory actually works with the 400, 398, 395, 300, 285, 275, and 800 series tools, according to the dremel website. I noticed this because I found it weird that it wasn't going to work with either of the corded variable speed series currently being sold.but it does.
The flex shaft does what it says it does and does it well. I also like using it with the foot pedal and the chuck. I use my dremel to drill holes in glass. The flex shaft is great because it's easy to handle and allows me to drill into water without risking putting my dremel into water.
Maybe contact with Dremel will solve the problem. The item came without instructions and does not function with my Dremel driver. It mounts in the obvious way but does not drive the tool.
More awesome.So, all that windy blather aside, I'm happy with the flex-shaft. Yes. They were still fairly new, and I was just starting out with learning how to use my tool anyway. It's everything I'd hoped for it to be: lightweight (definitely an issue with my joints), easy to use, and quite compatible with my old Dremel. At first, I was worried that it wouldn't be compatible with my beastie, which was old when I got it as a gift, but I looked up the specs, did some digging and found that it should fit with my model.Awesome.So I ordered it. I've had my 350 series Dremel for over ten years, now, and that poor workhorse of a tool has seen a LOT of use in that time, carving everything from wood to bone to amber to turquoise.
I got to try one of the old ones (the plain, black cased pen type) a bunch of years back, and I'd loved it then, but couldn't afford one. I could work without my poor hand going numb. My only beef about that awesome little bit of technology is the amount of vibration it puts my wrist through- ouch. :)Got it in less than a week and a half, and I immediately went for the little set of instructions, read 'em, did all the prep stuff to set it up, and started playing around with some silver I'd been saving to polish. I should have gotten one these ages ago. If I've been going for a couple of hours (my average time on it is three hours at a stretch), my hand is a distorted, cramped up mess due to the vibration.Enter the flex-shaft.
But I'm getting serious into the carving, lately, and my wrist just couldn't handle it, so I went nosing around for that wonderful little pen I could carve with and found the new model here.
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