What Else Can You Do With A Dremel?
You can polish stainless steel. In fact, you can do a bang-up beautiful job of polishing if you’re careful. Use Dremel’s polishing compound, Flitz or Mothers. Just start with a very small section of the gun, maybe one normally covered by a grip panel, until you get the hang of it. Dremel has polishing pads of various sizes, and you can buy add-on kits just for polishing so you don’t run out of pads.
If you intend to polish some action parts such as feed ramps, seers, etc., you might consider mounting your Dremel in a vise and using it more like a rotary wheel than a hand tool. This will allow you to be more judicious with how much contact the part is making with the tool.
The Dremel is also good for drilling small holes. If you’re into fabricating at all, the Dremel’s cutting discs are just the ticket. You can use them to cut metal to make small parts, or to cut out a slide for installing optics, even shorten a barrel. I do a lot of wood cutting with my Dremel for small jobs, including working on stocks, as I described earlier.
If you want a smoother, more pronounced undercut on your GLOCK’s trigger guard, you can make the change with careful use of a rotary sanding bit with your Dremel. Finish it off with emery cloth or 2,000-grit sandpaper. If you have an early Springfield XD or a CZ-P07 — or any polymer gun — with a tang on the bottom front of the trigger guard you don’t want, use a cutting disc with the Dremel to cut it off. Then, smooth it with sandpaper. These are easy adjustments if you’ve got a steady hand and don’t go too fast.
Whatever you do, it’s a good idea to practice first on junkers before messing up your valued firearms. It doesn’t have to be a gun. Make an adjustable crescent wrench pretty. Customize a bayonet or machete. Get really good with the tool and understand what its numerous accessories will do for you before trying them on an expensive gun.
If you become proficient, maybe you can be the one to write the Dremel Tool For Dummies book.
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