Thread: Who needs a Dremel when you have a blender?

Originally Posted by ben.mid

That's pretty cool. Imagine how fast a newb could completely destroy a vintage blade with that!

Something like 3600 x 6 = 21,600 linear feet/ minute
21,600 x 60 = 1,296,000 linear feet/ hour
1,296,000 / 5280 = 245.45 m/h



A newbie could destroy vintage razors at the unprecedented speed of slightly over 245 statute miles per hour!

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

Something like 3600 x 6 = 21,600 linear feet/ minute
21,600 x 60 = 1,296,000 linear feet/ hour
1,296,000 / 5280 = 245.45 m/h



A newbie could destroy vintage razors at the unprecedented speed of slightly over 245 statute miles per hour!

Um....Yeah, what he ^ said.

I would love to have one of those. But I also know that I could not be trusted with that. Apart from destroying razors, I can imagine having a few less fingers.

Power tools and me don't mix.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

Something like 3600 x 6 = 21,600 linear feet/ minute
21,600 x 60 = 1,296,000 linear feet/ hour
1,296,000 / 5280 = 245.45 m/h



A newbie could destroy vintage razors at the unprecedented speed of slightly over 245 statute miles per hour!

I may well be smiling, on and off, all day at that. Thanks.

Originally Posted by JMS

All I have to say is, Where the hell have you been FiReSTaRT? and Welcome back!!

Thanks for the welcome. I just haven't been playing around with razors other than using them... More focusing on my other hobbies like motorcycling and martial arts. I will try to spend more time here and I may even unload most of my project bench (unless Nenad & Randy T snap up the lot as they get the first dibs before it goes public).. I'll still keep some TEW, W&B and Boker pieces as I'm dying to try out my belt sander on something other than ping-pong rackets, and I still wanna try for a mirror finish with the RBD's I picked up way back when

Originally Posted by ben.mid

That's pretty cool. Imagine how fast a newb could completely destroy a vintage blade with that!

That's where practicing on honed down junk and Pakistan's pride kicks in. If the lowest setting is in the 1800rpm range, we're already golden. While a regular Dremel (with flap-wheels and/or RBD's) is more practical for individual fine cleanup, a blender has enough torque to mount a large RBW, like in Bill Ellis' workshop. Flex-shafts are cheap, so even if they get wrecked on a regular basis, risk/reward ratio is still low enough for medium-duty work. A typical newb won't be bulk-restoring razors 20 at a time.

In any case, I'll contact the guy to see how he mounted the flex-shaft onto the blender and maybe even for some ideas regarding mounting something big like an RBW to the other end. His primary concern is getting a motorcycle back on the road and not fine detailed work on precisely crafted blades, so it's no surprise that he bangs around the shop a bit.

Here's some more info from Agave..

You need to keep the bottom portion of the blender bucket for the part that mates to the drive.
The flex shaft has a round spindle, so i drilled out the adapter piece and put a set screw in it.

Here are the flex-shafts that he was talking about. Now the pages are from a Canadian chain, but I'm sure you can find something like that south of the border, like at HF.
41" flexible drill shaft | Drill Accessories | Power Tool Accessories | Power Tools | Princess Auto <-- the cheap version
flexible shaft | Misc. Surplus | Surplus | Princess Auto <-- the fancy version

Ok, I imposed on the gentleman to post up another vid with more detailed mounting info. Just a warning.. The vid is NSFW (Not Safe For Work) due to swearing (old school biker)
YouTube - osterizer2