Rutlands Miniture Power Tools Sale!!!!

[Neomorph]

I couldn't believe my eyes when I got an email from Rutlands regarding these mini tools... :shock: Micro size but not micro price!

They can be seen on the front page of the Rutlands site at http://www.rutlands.co.uk/

Only thing is... what are they used for... jewelry boxes? Dolls house furniture?

 

[martyn2]

all kinds of modeling, airplanes, trains as you say dolls houses

martyn

 

[Neomorph]

all kinds of modeling, airplanes, trains as you say dolls houses

martyn

:lol: Planes... reminds me when I was a kid I built a skinned plane out of balsa framework and doped tissue paper. Took me about 4 weeks to build and paint. Fitted the radio controls to it and took it to the hill where the rc club flew. I took the corresponding flag for my radio channel so others wouldn't use it... launched the plane and it flew great... for about 10 seconds. Then it went all wrong and wouldn't answer to my radio controller... up... down... and down... and... SMASH ... right into the hill at full speed and totally trashed it.

It turned out another guy was setting up his plane's engine and his radio controller was in the car along with his 2 year old son who decided he wanted to play with it... and it started broadcasting on the same channel I was using. I'll say this for the guy he paid for another kit with extras to cover my loss but it didn't half upset me losing all that work in less than a minute. The rc club actually put out a notice to members that all transmitters should have batteries removed when coming to a meet to stop the same problem happening in the future.

 

[martyn2]

I still play with them ocassionly crashed a few in my time

martyn

 

[engineer one]

proxxon seem to have replaced minicraft as the tool for model railways too.
dremel seem to complex these days. but for those who want this kind of
product but cheap, often lidl and aldi seem to have complete kits at about
£10-15 whilst jml do a similar thing with a bunch of tools included.

great for small bit of wood too. :lol:

paul :wink:

 

[dedee]

John, I now how you feel. In my early teens I found a balsa framed kit that my father had never got around to completing 20 odd years previously. This was the large rubber band type rather than RC. We carefully put it together ( I can still smell the dope now) and a very proud young aircraft builder took it to the local cricket ground. We wound up the prop and BANG the 20 year old rubber had perished and the recoil took out the whole back end of the fuselage.
I never got around to building another one.

Andy