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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nItems you will need<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Tube\/Pipe<\/em> – I used a PVC one, 3 cm in diameter and I’ve cut ~14 cm in length of it. Put everything together<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Take the motor and put as much tape as needed. The motor must fit just right and it can’t be too loose.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Mark the spot where the motor ends when it’s fitted into the pipe and mark where the button should be. Mark 4 spots for push button legs and drill them so the legs fit in nicely.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Heat up your soldering iron and solder the wires together. For the long wire that connects to a battery, I used the one that comes from a computer mouse. Since I have 2 old not working mouses which are with the ball :P 4.<\/strong> When finished, mount everything into the tube and put some hot glue around the motor so it stays in place. I used black hot glue because it’s stronger and it sets faster.<\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> Take the alligator clamps you got and solder them to the ends of wire. Remember the polarity because if you mix them, the motor will spin in a different direction. For me – Green wire is + and orange wire is -. But to make it spin faster and become stronger, I am using a 220V to 24V converter, which I took out from the same old printer I took the motor from.<\/p>\n 6.<\/strong> Simple grinder could be made from sanding paper and a plastic gear that comes with some electronic toys. Just wrap the sanding paper around, apply little super glue and you have a little grinder – works really well on paper and other not-so-hard objects. 7.<\/strong> For the chuck I used<\/p>\n The motor I used fits perfectly into the chuck and it’s centered perfectly. It won’t get better than this.
\n2.<\/strong> Motor<\/em> – it depends on what you want to drill or cut. I wanted to use not just for drilling so I used a stronger motor.
\nSorry for the confusion – in first photo you may notice a different motor which is somewhat this<\/a> than it’s on other photos. This is because after I took that photo, I noticed that the current motor just spins really fast but doesn’t have any strength, so when you push little harder, it stops. I found a stronger one which is similar to this<\/a>. Motor I used is from an inkjet printer. I found a non-working printer thrown away so i picked it up and dismantled it for parts. 9v isn’t enough for this so I used a different battery. About that later…
\n3.<\/strong> Alligator clamps<\/em> – small ones, used in electronics
\n4.<\/strong> Tape or shrink tubes for isolating wires<\/em>. I used tape.
\n5.<\/strong> Hot glue<\/em>
\n6.<\/strong> Some wires and a long wire for the power<\/em>.
\n7.<\/strong> Push button<\/em>
\n8.<\/strong> Small drill-chuck<\/em>. Special for this kind of drills. I have a similar to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nDon’t forget to tighten the long wire to the tube so it won’t go anywhere, for that I used this thingie that get nailed to walls to hold wires nicely.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nFor my battery I used one from the cordless drill, which is 12v, 2.0 Ah NiMH battery.
\nActually, 12v is good enough to make it a portable BBQ air blower. Car battery also works<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nIf you want to have a bigger one, to polish ends of a cut wire, then take bigger sanding paper, a small and long screw and find a little, nicely round branch. You will need ~1cm in length. Wrap the paper around it, apply glue to hold it on the wood and put the screw in. Now put that in a chuck (look below) and go grind!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nYou can really use it for anything an actual dremel would do, but this one doesn’t have so much power. Cutting through metal, plastic or wood is not bad and I am using these cutting disks<\/a> which are really nice.<\/p>\n