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Model 220 Work Station

CEFinkJr — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:47:19 GMT

I purchased a Model 220 Work Station this afternoon (after waiting almost a year for it). It looks like it will be extremely useful in my hobby (model railroading). It might have been a good idea though if Dremel had assembled a Work Station using the printed instructions before shipping the product or at least let the person preparing the instructions see the product as it would be shipped to customers. I found two problems:

The first is minor but a bit confusing. The square nut shown in Figure 1 for the Base Hex Bolt is in fact a hex nut. This becomes obvious when you can't find a square nut large enough to fit the Base Hex Bolt and there seems to be an extra large hex nut.
The second is more serious and might cause some bad words to be pronounced over your product. Step 1 on page 4 says to assemble the tube to the base. This is all well and good except that Step 2 then becomes impossible: the Drill Press fits too tightly over the tube to clear the plastic plug at the top of the large tube. The only way I could get my Work Station assembled was to reverse these two steps; putting the Drill Press on the tube and then assembling the tube to the base.

In spite of these two problems, I think this is a good product and will be very useful.

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donmar — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:22:32 GMT

If you use a small but accurate square, and measure the inside walls of the tool. you will find it is not a 90 degree corner. When placed in cutting position the tool does not lay square on the cutting edge of the door you are cutting. This allows for the cutter to cutt 1 or 2 degrees unsquare. Just take your aquare and measure the insilde edges. May be this doesn't hurt anything, but I couldn't be OK with any work I used it on. I tried to have this question answered by the Bosch, (or dremel) engineering folks but never got an answer.I would like to hear from some of you demonstraters to give your opinion on this item. Maybe I am out in left field on this.but I would like to hear what you guys think.

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