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Rick,

Does the Dremmel tool actually save you time?? I mean you have to go back and do "fine filing", right? And how much total felt are you taking off?

Inquiring minds want to know,

Rich,

My best results were on really old American hammers that were severely worn. It definitely saved time over taking off all that excess felt manually. There are different depths of cut available on the accessory tool. I remember an old Weber where I got a good finished filing job done in about 1-1.5 hour. I mowed the felt right off with the dremel and it was automatically well shaped, then it just needed some smoothing. But that was highly unusual. Usually it doesn't feel right and I put the Dremel away.

For more normal jobs where you are just keeping up with routine filing the time advantage is a lot less.

But the thing is that on many kinds of hammers you just can't get a good controlled 'feel' anyway and you have to go to hand files or risk getting the shape wrong. But when the hammer and the Dremel seem to be good mates, it's sweet.

Regards,

Rick Clark