Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-5, страница 73
Skil's new router tables fold for storage. attachments will also come out with the 4000 — a Detailer's Grip and a Sanding/Grinding Guide. New motor technology with electronic feedback control adjusts tool speed —variable from 5,000 to 35,000 rpm — to the workload. Prices on the Dremel 4000 range from $79 for the tool alone to $149 for a kit including the two new accessories. Freud Doweling Jointer adjustable fence allows precise setting of any joint; the tool accepts standard 10mm-shank boring bits and works with bits from 3/16" to 1/2" diameter. It sells for $329.99. and cutting precision, and additional accessory storage compartments. The RAS900 has a quick-release router mount that attaches and detaches in seconds. Suggested price on the RAS800 is $99.99; on the RAS900, it's $150. Got kids in your life? Zany Wooden Toys That Whiz, Spin, Fop and Fly by Bob Gilsdorf is as fun — maybe more so — for the parents or grandparents as it is for kids with its plans for some traditional and carnival type toys including shooters, launchers, handheld games, a ball-and-socket robot and gumball machines. It's designed in comic book style, with tips for success from the cartoon character toy inventor himself. The book, published by Fox Chapel, sells for $19.95. Dremel, of course, has had rotary tools out before, but they say this fall's Dremel 4000 rotary tool is the ultimate in the category. It works with all the accessories for previous incarnations of the Dremel rotary tool, plus the MultiSaw and Planer attachments originally designed for the 400 Series XPR. New Dremel's 4000 rotary tool Freud's Doweling Joiner is a handheld power tool that functions like a biscuit joiner. With bits spaced exactly 32mm apart, it cuts dowel holes and drills them up to 1%" deep for functions like shelf pins, European cabinets and more. It's powered with a 6.5-amp motor. An Woodworker's Journal author and master woodworker Ian Kirby uses some modern technology to teach about a traditional tool in his video "Using a Hand Plane with Ian Kirby." It covers subjects like edge and end plan- Continues on page 74 ... With many of your machines, of course, you want to take measurements to guarantee accuracy. The 1-2-3 MicroGage from MasterGage lets you do that in some tight spots. The Dial Indicator Carriage can be mounted with a lock screw to any vertical or horizontal edge of the 2" x 3" 1-2-3 Block. You can use the 3/8" flat-tip to measure round surfaces and blade edges. Use the 1-2-3 Block by itself to square up blades or fences, or put it down and attach the Dial Indicator Carriage to measure and set heights on routers, jointer infeed and outfeed tables, table saw blade heights and more. It's small enough to fit in (formerly) restricted areas, and it costs $119. 1-2-3 MicroGage measures accuracy. wanTeys Woodworker's Journal October 2009 1 9 |
