Thanks to Bill Eastman, there's a Home Depot in Minnesota that thinks I'm
crazy! I just ordered a Ryobi rotary tool from there.
"You're ordering from WHERE??!!! TEXAS??" You could hear the wheels
turning: why doesn't she just go to Home Depot in San Antonio? Because they
don't have them at that price...
For the price, I can practice with the Ryobi. No flex-shaft, though. I'll
return the big Dremel ($68) and buy it back when I need it! Or not...
Carol
PS The internet is indeed a wonderful resource!
At 10:21 AM 11/18/97 -0600, Bill Eastman wrote:
>Last night on a pilgrimage to the Home Depot for suspended ceiling
>supplies, I wondered into the power tool area to do a little dreaming.
>What do I see right there in front of God and everyone? The Ryobi rotary
>tool 99 piece kit with variable speed on clearance for $17.00! So I am now
>the proud owner of a Dremel wanna be. Sure it is last year's model but I
>don't think the tail fins are that big ;-)
>
>So I went home and showed my latest acquisition to the SO. She was
>impressed with my shopping acumen but still unconvinced to the absolute
>need for such a device in the Eastman household. I explained that,
>although I could not come up with a use right at this second, that this was
>the Swiss army knife of power tools and besides, compared to others in the
>neighborhood, I was fairly power tool challenged (3/8 VSR drill, power
>screwdriver, Shop Vac).
>
>Now, my SO is a dear and long suffering woman who has realized, that if she
>immediately gives into anything that I do, it just guarantees escalation of
>effort along the same lines and, if she just agrees that the Ryobi is a
>good deal, I will have a fully functional machine shop in the basement by
>week's end. She is also blessed with a quick mind, uncanny intuition, and
>a razor like wit. She immediately rattled off a list of dweeb neighbors
>who drive Dodge Spirits or Yuppy sleds and couldn't recognize the business
>end of a Posidrive or think that over head valves control the sprinkler
>system. She then listed off a few of my previous purchases that have
>proven less than useful (none of which I can remember because I have
>blocked them out of my mind). Afterwards she admitted that she could see
>how the ability to cut off small screws was at least theoretically useful
>and that this purchase was not the stupidest thing that I had done lately.
>That would have been wiring our new ventilation system hot because I was
>too lazy to figure out what circuit breaker controlled the outlet in
>question. Hey, some people pay good money for shock therapy :-o Once
>again, natural selection takes a swing and misses.
>
>Regards,
>Bill Eastman
>61 MGA closely guarding all of its parts Dremel (or cheap knock off)
>susceptible parts
>
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