Dremel-y cutoff wheels? Size matters....

[stubhead]

I want a bigger cutoff wheel, wah.  :sad1: The legit cutoff wheels that Dremel sells seem to top out at 1.25" for fiberglass ones. And their standard ones are 0.875", and they're SLOW.... there are some eBay ones out of Honk Kong at 1.5" and even 2.0" - they don't appear to be "cheap Chinese" junk, but from a rather respectable industry. I'm not putting sideways pressure on them but the obvious quests arise:
Do they cut?
Do they wear fast?
Do they fly apart into dozens of spiky stone projectiles?

Dremel also makes their EZ 406 wheels, with the added advantage (to THEM :icon_thumright that you have to use a special mandrel. And it looks to be very hard to find just the wheel, with buying a new mandrel every five disc. Fiends. :evil4:

Any users?

 

[Cagey]

The Dremel is good for a number of things, but not everything. Many of their sharp-ish implements reach the hairy edge of practicality much sooner than may be obvious and tempt you to go well beyond it with disastrous results. You have to avoid the common problem of perceiving every problem as a nail while you're holding your hammer, or believing all angle grinders/drill motors/saws are created equal.

What is it you're trying to accomplish? What is the traditional tool for doing it? If you don't know or aren't sure, that's probably a good place to start. You may not be able to get there from here effectively with a Dremel motor, even if you can get what appear to be solutions.

For example, you can buy a router attachment for your Dremel and they have a number of cutters you can chuck into it, but thinking you're going to start evacuating pickup and control cavities in a hunk of hardwood will quickly teach you why real routers have horsepower ratings that exceed fractional numbers.