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From: Max Robinson
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] RotoZip
What is a roto zip? Is it something like a Dremel tool?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hodges" <tomhod...@fuse.net>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] RotoZip
> My Roto Zip has a shoe that is about an inch and a half in diameter and
> can
> be adjusted for the depth of the bit. It's basically free hand unless you
> are cutting in a straight line and you could lay a straight edge next to
> your work for a guide. Also, when cutting drywall, your guide is the door
> jamb or electrical outlet box or whatever you are cutting out around.
> When
> cutting out something, I always travel from right to left with it so it
> will
> hug the guide. If I were cutting out drywall, for instance, from around a
> door jamb and went left to right, the roto zip wants to walk away from the
> jamb instead of staying right there next to it.
>
>
>
> The bits for mine are an eighth inch diameter and about an inch and a half
> to two inches long, total. About a half to three quarters of an inch of
> it
> go into the collet. I have bits for drywall and wood but I think they
> also
> have them for ceramic, light sheet metal, etc.
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>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Tom
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>
>
> From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of William Stephan
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:47 AM
> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] RotoZip
>
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> Tom: I've only tried using rotozip bits on a drill press with disasterous
> results, so I'm curious about how you use yours. I have a friend who says
> he uses one of these, but he I think just puts a bit in a high speed drill
> and cuts freehand. So, is there a shoe on your tool that allows you to
> follow a fence or jig?
>
> Thanks for any illumination.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Tom Hodges
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 08:30
> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] RotoZip
>
> Someone was inquiring about using the roto zip for cutting wood the other
> day and I have since deleted them. However, I had occasion to use mine
> yesterday to cut wood and here is the result.
>
> I'm tearing out an old closet and building a new one in a 100 year old
> house. The exterior wall is brick, inside and out. I had to remove the old
> baseboard from the wall in the new closet section only so I could put in a
> new one all around the interior of the closet. I put a wood cutting bit
> into the Roto Zip and adjusted it to the thickness of the baseboard, which
> was a full, one inch thick and seven and a half inches high. I cut it to
> about a quarter inch from the floor in about 30 seconds and chiseled the
> remaining quarter inch.
>
> It worked beautifully. Prior to this, I had only used my Roto Zip for
> cutting drywall. The trick to using the Roto Zip would be to use the right
> bit for the material being cut. The drywall bit will definetly not cut
> wood.
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