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DISCLAIMER: If you though I had any political intent, you have been lured into my Blog ( and the title works as intended ). And now that you arrived here, well, feel free reading to the end; after all you have already made the difficult part… Hi folks, This is an ode to my (almost new) Dremel 3000. I have been the happy and satisfied owner of a bargain Chinese rotary tool that served me well for two decades. And one day the reduction gear broke. I thought about repairing it and while I opened the machine, I discovered that the broken parts were made of a kind of amber Bakelite resin. It was beyond salvation. I then took the opportunity of pasing in the neighborghood a DIY store to buy my first Dremel tool (2017). I do not remember the reference, but it has been globally robust and useful. Yet my usage turned being less intensive than with my previous tool (turn/rotary tool, you get the trick? Ok, it is poor...). Indeed, with miniatures shifting to plastics you have less needs for pining, carving and milling than when models were made of metal. And recently I have restarted working on my backlog of old minis. I found back a lot of metal bits and various models I ordered to GW. Even some that (almost) predate internet, or at least the webstore. Some might remember the “good old time” when catalogs could be bought annually or found at the back of WD, with an invoicing sheet you had to xerox and fill in manually. Yes. It happened before. I therefore found back a lead weight of bits (literally) that required being used for something. So, I have tried to remember what my purpose was for buying these bits, sometimes 2 decades ago. Archeobitsology helped me rethinking potential uses for these parts and I have decided to restart working on these born dead projects. Most are for the world that was, so I will not dive into details. It is just worth mentioning that my order for paints and flock is still in the mists of postal service for 3 weeks and that I need to find something to be kept busy hobby wise. And then I have been thunderstruck. (AC/DC was also an option) Where is my Dremel? Impossible to find it back. I have tried all the crates and boxes left unopened from my moving. I have explored the basement and the attic. I even asked my wife if she had used it for her own hobbies. Everything has been negative. Dremel is LIA. Fortunately, it is the season of flea market and houses/attics emptying and I found a second hand Dremel 3000 for sales at a competitive price of 20 € (£15 pounds/ 25USD). It is a marvelous tool. Especially because it is a bargain offer. Yet it is not perfect as it lacks some options my previous machine had and that were very convenient. Starting from the removable precision handle. And continuing with the adjustable chuck. The latter is a must have if you use drill bits of various diameters; but the Dremel 3000 comes with a single diameter adaptor and a 1mm diameter drill bit is somehow too big. So back to the local DIY store (not the same one but the same brand, although being 2000 km away from the previously mentioned one). The adjustable chuck was available in store. It costed me 20 € too. Such a tiny stuff made me double the investment. Anyway, it is a marvelous stuff. Its usefulness also comes from the fact that I am still able to use my old accessories from my previous rotary tools which were stored separately from the Dremel body. Otherwise the investment would have been different. (a tiny costly stuff, yet almost mandatory) The weekend has been spent playing with my new toy. I carved some Kroxigor skulls, drilled and pinned a metal Rhinox, sculpted and adjusted a brand new wood platform made out from rests of plasticard as a replacement of a lost part for a Snot Pump Wagon, cut through dwarf cannon crew and reset legs so that they can ride on the back of Leadbelcher Ogres instead of Gnoblars (this is what space and aircraft engineers call a “composite material”)… And pinned and pinned a lot of stuff (oversized metal weapons not really designed to remain glued to their genuine model mainly). A tremendous weekend that really does my Dremel deserving a big Hooray. (My Dremel was born to be a star) See you folks when I will have something more seriously rooted in 40k to share. PS: my wife pretends I should have bought a new one with fixed arm in order to start setting up a hobby workshop or alike...