I just purchased the Harbor Freight Chicago Electric pendant rotary tool. It cost me $30 with coupon. I have used others but let me tell you as a wood carver. This thing is awesome. The foot pedal while cheaply made, works great, the motor is plenty powerful. The handpiece is better than I expected Best of all, It is 100% compatible with Foredom hand pieces. You can use a Foredom brand or Chinese knock offs. They fit fine. I use a Dremel 4300 with flex shaft too for wood carving. The HF one is quickly becoming my favorite. Not sure why I would pay more. Did I mention how much I dislike the crapy Ryobi brand anything but especially their batteries. Never had any luck with Ryobi lasting more than a few months without issues.
Harbor freight hanging motors are junk had four of them the first one drilling a bicycle not applying any pressure snap the whole entire shaft second one doing a sanding project the motor burnt out so I took all the all the other ones that I had all four of them went back to the store total junk
Thanks for the video. I didn't buy the kit, but I've been thinking about the foot pedal. Thanks to your video, I won't be buying the pedal since it does not turn the tool off. To me this is an incredible safety issue. If Ryobi fixes this problem, I will buy the pedal
LOTS OF ERRORS IN YOUR PRESENTATION. 1) Running the tool WITHOUT pedal attached- min setting ALSO RUNS THE TOOL WHEN POWER SWITCH IS ‘ON’ and knob is at min setting. 2) Spinning output with foot-pedal connected is a SAFETY FEATURE- unit is ‘armed’ and pressing the pedal WILL RUN THE UNIT AT PEDAL INPUT SPEED. Hope y’all find these comments helpful.
Did you ever find out if Dremel cut off wheels work on the Ryobi mandrel? I feel like the Dremel ez quick change collet wobbles too much, the Ryobi one looks to be more secure
Maybe get a $19 phone stand so you can stop fumbling around. Just some constructive criticism my friend, no I’ll intent, it’s just a bit frustrating trying to watch you struggle.
And by the way the one that put the stuff for harbor freight I bought four of them tools myself the first one the whole entire shaft broke the second one the motor started smoking so I took them all four back they're junk
