Comments on: Finds: Dremel’s Cordless Pumpkin Carving Kit

By: Q

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:49:24 +0000

@BoomGuy
The Minimite line does NOT have the threaded collar. If you look closely at the pic above, the body is all one piece (technically two, but no collar).

By: BoomGuy

BoomGuy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:15:26 +0000

I’ve been thinking of getting one of the mini mite jrs for my portable needs. I don’t expect it to work with everything but there are some attachments I want it to work with.

It’s not clear from the pictures whether or not they have threaded collars for attachments. So sdomeone who owns one, do they?

By: Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Back In The Day: A Year Ago This Week On Toolmonger

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:12:32 +0000

[...] We wrote about Dremel’s cordless pumpkin carving kit, a cool (and cheap) addition to the upcoming Boo-day fun. [...]

By: Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Toolmonger’s Top 5: The Week in Tools

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:38:19 +0000

[...] Finds: Dremel’s Cordless Pumpkin Carving Kit Halloween’s right around the corner, and Dremel’s again offering a simplified, inexpensive version of their famous rotary tool set up just right for carving pumpkins. They’ve cut corners by removing the VSR (it’s a two-speed) and high-tech batteries (it runs off two AAs), which drops the price of the rig — complete with the bit Dremel recommends for the job — right into Halloween impulse buy range. [...]

By: Myself

Myself — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:26:30 +0000

Steve, please tell me you’ve got pictures of this! (But I thought the pumpkin-eater was named Peter! No, he’s a different poster entirely!)

By: Steve Thompson

Steve Thompson — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:53:12 +0000

When I was a kid my folks and I painstakingly and with utmost care (and gobs of Miracle Grow) nurtured a pumpkin patch to produce half a dozen or so pumpkins up to 5-6 ft n diameter. I’ll never forget the mess it made come Halloween and we had to attack it with my dad’s 2-speed Craftsman portable jig saw (you remember - with the cast metal body and big bakelite knob on the top).

Power tools and produce…cool.

By: Myself

Myself — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:49:10 +0000

Or scour eBay for the “golf cleaning kit” or the “pet nail trimming kit”, which feature the same body molded in different translucent colors. They include different accessories, but really, what Dremelmonger doesn’t already have a drawer full?

To me, this is a handy addition to my AA-powered arsenal: A small, two-speed 1/8″ rotary tool, that doesn’t require an outlet OR its own proprietary battery pack. The inexorable progress of NiMH AA capacity means it’ll only be more capable a few years from now, too.

This is a big thing with me. I won’t buy a camera that takes proprietary batteries. The Olympus line that can run from CR-V3s or AA’s are fine, but the Sony InfoLithium system is right out. Personally I carry a Canon S2 IS, and I always know I have two spare sets of batteries in the car. They’re the same rechargeable AA’s that run my flashlight, my GPS, my yet-unbuilt Mintyboost, etc. Fancy lithium is no good if you’re away from the charger!

Likewise, I won’t buy a small power tool that takes a proprietary pack, if the job could be done just as well from standard AA’s. If I could just find a small screwdriver (in the vein of the iXO / SmartDriver) that’ll run from the same fleet of batteries! Ponder: When’s the last time you saw a solar panel charger made for your favorite cordless tool brand’s proprietary pack? My mini-mag’s second backup batteries are on the windowsill, waiting for the sun to come up…