Dremel Holder

A small handheld Dremel-like rotary tool is a popular MillingDrillingHead for RepRap.

There have been two approaches to combining a RepRap with a Dremel-like grinder:

• Attach the Dremel directly on the tool head. Move the whole thing around.
• Attach the Dremel to a flex shaft. Attach only the tip of a flex shaft on the tool head. mount the Dremel itself some other convenient stationary location.

• FlexShaftHolder
• DremelFlexShaftHolder
• Flex Shaft milling-toolhead
• thing:1767 Dremel holder by laszlo: moves the entire Dremel around (not merely the end of the flex shaft) (This is on a RepMan, right?)

Challenge

The DremelFlexShaftHolder was Developed for the RepMan, Marcus posted a design challenge to convert this reliably working toolhead to the RepRap Mendel.
He discontinued that challenge when Bogdan Kecman posted his FlexShaftHolder on Thingiverse after a discussion in the BitsFromBytes forum.

(Or was it this discussion?)

It is still to be converted to the limited space of the RepRap Mendel or Darwin compared to the RepMan.

There was a design contest going on to adapt an existing Dremel Holder from Marcus that was designed for the RepMan to the RepRap "Darwin" or RepRap "Mendel".
It was closed after Bogdan designed such a toolhead.