How many of you guys polish your own watch????

Originally Posted by TARDIS

Gee Al, that's a very interesting post.
You obviously know a lot more about Dremel than I.
The only experience I had with Dremel was with my son-in-law's which had no clamp to support it and only ran at top speed because of some malfunction in the speed selection. I tried polishing the steel parts on my Buck Knife with it and I made a right mess of it.
I had to manually wet & dry the scores out and grade it back with micron cloths, took several days but now looks great.

I read about the Dremel guys on TZ, but unlike me, they know what they are doing.

Steve

No worries Steve - it's the same concept for any cutting tool on a lathe or milling machine or grinder, for example. It's one of the first concepts anyone learns when they work with industrial machinery that cuts metals and it's something I learned in probably my first machine shop class in high school (that was a long time ago!).

I now work for a company that does a lot of grinding of hardened steel product on automated machines and we run surface speeds of 12,000 feet per minute and more. I'ver purchased machines that run spindles up to 70,000 RPM where the product and grinding wheel is very small.

So my experience isn't really from the Dremel, but the same thing applies there.