I used to think that there were only two types of accessories available for Dremel-style rotary tools – genuine Dremel bits and accessories, and cheap generic imported accessories. So you can imagine my surprise when I found out about Gyros, which offers a range of USA-made rotary tool accessories.
I recently discussed a bit about Gyros’ Rotary Tool Guard, which is designed to control the ejection of debris and sparks. I have been taking a hands-on look at the guard and some of Gyros’ mini circular saws and cut-off wheels, and I have to admit, I wish I had found out about Gyros’ accessories sooner.
Whereas Dremel offers only 2 wood-cutting circular saw type accessories, Gryos has several blade styles and sizes to choose from. Just to give you an idea, Gryos offers ripsaw blades, coarse tooth blades, fine-tooth and ultra-fine tooth blades, all available in several sizes. As always, by choosing the appropriate blade for the task at hand you can be sure to achieve the best possible results.
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Talking about fiber-reinforced cut-off wheels, Gyros offers different disks for use on: low-tensile materials such as glass, plastic, wood, and non-ferrous metals; medium tensile materials such as hardened and unhardened steel and hard bronze; and super tensile strength materials such as hard ferrous and non-ferrous metals, stainless steel, and titanium.
Thus far I am strongly inclined to give these blades and cutting disks a huge thumbs-up. It is quite tough to do a direct Gyros vs. Dremel comparison, and I can see reasons for recommending both systems’ accessories. Overall, Gryos offers blade styles and options that Dremel just doesn’t have on the market (yet?) at all.
I like both brands as they both offer top-quality accessories, but find myself leaning towards Gryos’ better wood-cutting blade style and size selection. On the other hand, Dremel does have a clear advantage in terms of more widespread availability, and their EZ Lock system and accessories are absolutely marvelous to use.
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sam
Cut this way. Just give me a kissss!
Joe Mamma
Can anyone provide feedback on the cut off wheels for “medium tensile materials such as hardened and unhardened steel and hard bronze; and super tensile strength materials such as hard ferrous and non-ferrous metals, stainless steel, and titanium”?
I’ve never been completely happy with anything else I have used for these materials in the past. Thank you.
Alex M.
I’ve used a variety of cutoff discs in a dremel, admittedly not these. In their product description they say that they’re formulated and designed to work with the low torque of a dremel or hand-held rotary. This jibes with my cut-off wheel experience: if it slows down, it cuts poorly. Their discs may be better than most but chucked on to a hobbyist electric rotary tool, your options are always going to be “cut really slow” or “cut really ugly”. I decided to try out an air-powered cutoff tool and I have never gone back – put the right disc in and those things will zip through hardened bolts, thick-walled tubing, rolled stock, you name it. These things are probably good – the cutting disks with little teeth on them are particularly interesting! But if you have a lot of metal to get through, I would wholeheartedly encourage you to upgrade the motor you’re spinning the stuff with.
Stuart
Alex does have a point. For heavy duty use, something like a Foredom or similar flex-shaft tool will have a bit more power and control available.
These cut-off wheels do perform quite well, although I haven’t tried them on super-tough materials like SS or titanium yet.
fred
Dremels and even their bigger cousin electric die grinders can’t hold a candle to their pneumatic cousins in the shop. In anything approaching a production setting – with multiple tools running – shop air requirements are way beyond any of the compressors we typically take out to a jobsite to run nailers and the like. If you want quality and performance – my experience with the Dotco – Cleco tools woould give them the nod for grinding, sanding and drilling – but I think that out cutoff tools are Taylor. We power ours with a big Sullair rotary screw compressor.
Dremels do find a place in our installer’s toolboxes for touch-up and fitting work around storm doors, windows and the like – making tasks a bit faster than drilling and hand filing or hacksawing – but even here Multimasters and Supercuts have taken over some of these jobs.