BUYING SOME PROXXON TOOLS - PART #1
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2025
- Buying Some Proxxon Tools - Part #1 - from www.rdgtools.co.uk I needed some better quality motor tools and accessories and thanks to a suggestion made by a viewer I decided to look at the Proxxon range. I am glad that I did and here is what I bought. I will be practically testing them in the next episode by putting them through their paces in the Workshop.........
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Keith I am so jealous I live in France but my visits to RDG live in my memory in fact I am coming over to the UK and you have whetted my appetite for a visit. Proxon are fantastic tools so enjoy I have a full selection of Minicraft tools and I notice you have a small drill too the variable speed unit looks the same as my Minicraft unit maybe they copied it? I am hopping to start getting my model room sorted soon and after 3 years can start doing what I love making things. I hope you have a great Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year JIM
Thanks for your introduction to this brand...I went out and bought a Bahco adjustable spanned on your recommendation...I’ve never looked back....my tool chest is full of Bahco orange boxes now.....let us know how the mini drills work out.
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I am so pleased to know MYFORD is still available. I have had a Super 7 for 40 years. Great video.
I love RDG & would love to visit that shop but have only used them on ebay. As for proxxon, I must have been unlucky. I bought the 12v version drill & their flexible shaft & both had play in the spindle, more than the Aldi mini drill I use at my workshop that is years old & the drill was pretty gutless. When attached to the flexible shaft, both sounded like they were going to self destruct & the vibration was incredible. I checked a RUclips video of someone that had the same items & the noise of his while running seemed similar but his drill was fixed in a holder. I couldn't even do a long term test to see if the vibration & spindle play stopped after a warm up because I had to stop as the flexible shaft got too hot to touch in 30 secs. Both were returned. The power supply & pen sander seem OK but nothing to write home about. They would definitely be better than very cheap Chinese, but no better than a good Aldi or Lidl tool at a third of the price. In fact, I bought a mini belt sander & jigsaw in a Hungarian Lidl & look remarkably similar to Proxxon. Both feel very good in the hand with a decent amount of weight behind them. Maybe peoples perception of quality has changed as products, gradually, get more & more naff. Best mini drill I ever had was a minicraft that I abused for over 20 years. It used to get so hot as I used it for things it wasn't intended for, I'd have to hold it with a cloth!!!! Myford, on the other hand, is what you call quality!!!!
I used Minicraft mini drills too in various sizes, they really were very good. I ran them using an old PC power supply screwed to the wall in my old Workshop.
@@keithappleton pc power supplies are always worth keeping. A multitude of uses
Oh I so would love a proper Myford lathe but a bit impractical in my small 2 bed flat already overflowing with the contents of my now demolished rented garage and a daughter who being my carer has said "no, absolutely not" to anything bigger than one of them cheapo chinesium "X" modular thingies which barely cuts plastic but I hope of one day being able to have one, just a little thing to keep oiled and working and turn off small pieces for fun and self education :)
For a while after my Daughter Charlotte was born when I was 35 years old, we lived in a very small one bedroom flat with not a lot of room in it. One of the areas in the flat was like an alcove. I managed to find a small space in there for a very modest 00 gauge train set in a corner under the central heating boiler and I also had a tiny cheap Chinese lathe to play with, so it wasn't so bad . . . thankfully we eventually moved into a house and things got better.
@@keithappleton Yes it can be tight cramped with a new baby, I lived in a bedsit place with my youngest when she were a baby as I brought up on my own, we did have a lovely place right next to old Bourton foundry (Bourton Wheel) here in Dorset, I kid you not it had a garden like a quarter mile long and I set up my car fixing stuff in an old caravan but the marriage floundered and daughter and myself were bereft of a home having to go to council as missus kept the house (also my merc 190 AMG, dog and a load of stuff) and had to start all over again being given a tiny flat and a garage which filled up with car, steam and other stuff but a workable workshop but council decided they wanted to build houses on garages and so got a front room piled floor to ceiling with stuff too expensive to throw but too obscure that anyone wants (got a load of "Sheffield Bentley" parts for instance aka Reliant Robin plus a 1958 Lambretta and an old Vespa plus a mountain of parts for each hehe)
I've had and burned out three Dremel tools before I bought my first Proxxon over 20 years ago. That (small) one also has the 5A power supply, and both tool and power supply still work well. The second one was a bigger direct powered one, also still in use. As far as my opinion matters....you made the right choice :-)
Wow I like that micro drill press... daughters asking me what I wanted for Xmas and seeing this vid has given me idea to give to them, I got a battery Parkside dremil with extra bits but its easily bogged down being a battery one and I am always wanting to make small holes in bits for PC's, games consoles etc and the press with a power supplied unit would fit the bill Thx m8 :)
Proxxon tools are good. I have the mini woodlathe from proxxon. My only complaint is that, although they are about a quarter the size of regular tools they are not a quarter if the price. So thats a bit of a set back....
"Reassuringly Expensive" is a good way to explain it }:-)))
Buenisimas tus compras !!!!!
Many years ago I received a Dremel kit for Christmas, it was nice but eventually It wore out. Then I bought a new one and discovered that Dremel makes two different kinds of mini power tools; a hobbyist, inexpensive line and a more expensive craftsman line. There is quite a difference! One being the presence of ball bearings instead of sleeve bushings on both the loaded and unloaded ends of the motors. All electrical connections are crimped of course, and the performance is much better. Most important for the beginner is to understand that they need to be brutally honest about what they intend to do and not buy more tool then they need but it's also never a bad thing to buy quality. In fact, as I learned in school many years ago, a poor quality tool can also be more dangerous as well as inefficient.
Really tantalizing selection of equipment.
Your video inspired me to visit RTG's Web site.
I had to smile when I discovered that they also sell braces (suspenders) for trousers.
Bit late for this year but Proxxion will definitely be on my Xmas list for next year.
Happy Early Christmas! 🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁🎉
Thank You, and to your good self also }:--)))
It looks like Father Christmas came early...
Happy Christmas...😆
}:-))) Merry Christmas . . .
Who was that guy with the really clean hands filling out the order?
Did I not mention it in the video? ...... His name is James.
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