Dremel 3000 Rotary Tool 130 W, Multi Tool Kit with 15
Dremel 3000 Rotary Tool 130 W, Multi Tool Kit with 15 Acessories, Variable Speed 10.000-33.000 RPM
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| Weight: | 1.1 kg |
| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5 x 19 cm; 1.1 Kilograms |
| Model: | F0133000JB |
| Part: | F0133000JB |
| Colour: | Multi |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Bosch |
| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5 x 19 cm; 1.1 Kilograms |
| Quantity: | 1 |
I’m only learning to use this tool and all it’s accessories, but love it so far. There are many cheaper versions, but I think paying extra for such a quality brand.
The Dremel 3000 Rotary Tool is a versatile multi-tool kit with 15 accessories that gets the job done effectively. The 130W motor provides decent power for most tasks, and the variety of attachments allows for various applications.
Switching between accessories is relatively straightforward, although it may take some practice to get used to. The tool’s ergonomic design is comfortable to hold, but I noticed a bit of vibration during prolonged use.
The build quality is good, and the tool feels sturdy, but I recommend handling it with care to ensure its longevity.
Overall, the Dremel 3000 is a reliable tool suitable for DIY projects and light professional use. While it may not be the most powerful option out there, it offers good value for the price and has proven to be a helpful addition to my toolkit.
You can tell is a professionally built tool, works smoothly, lightweight, but comes with quite little accessories, and doesn’t have enough power for my needs. Could be just enough for other stuff, not for a car mechanic, who sometimes needs to clear welding metal spit out of confined spaces, like inside a nut, or that sort. I returned it and bought a Draper 180W, and that does the job for me, also plenty of accessories. A bit heavier and larger than this little guy though. Not much, but a bit heavier. This one here would perhaps be perfect for small model sculptures, or so.
I have owned a few of these now. Im not sure if I try make it do too much or they are just a bit fragile but I have managed to break them all. The switch seems to over heat quickly and then bang – luckily prime deliver the following day!
We used to have the B&D version which served us well till the ‘com’ wore out. This one seems built almost the same, so lets hope it lasts as well, though it ought to, as the manual says it’s a Bosch.
Excellent product, very powerful for its size. Used to clean and replace old shower grouting. Highly recommended
I bought this for doing my rescue greyhound’s nails. They grow super long super quick and are unbelievably strong when trying to get them cut at the groomers. Seamus hates getting his nails cut and has a kick like a donkey
I had bought other grinders specifically for dogs, but they weren’t powerful enough. This gets the job done in minutes. I highly recommend.
I’ve always wanted a Dremel and didn’t want a cheapo make so I was very happy to receive this for Christmas from my steplads, already used it several times to help when making a sensory/busy board for my Grandchild, motor seems nice and strong and it’s not too noisy, already on the lookout for what attachments/accessories to buy next, comes in a nice little case with a few accessories to get you going, very easy to hold/use if you’ve got big hands like me, smaller hands might struggle with fine movements in which case I’d recommend the flexi hose attachment which has a much smaller grip.
I can see it’s going to be a year for Dremel related projects. 😉
It is a little heavy but nice and compacked in its zipped holder. It is easy to use and has various bits that you can attach. Just what i needed for doing my Resin.
I bought this primarily for the bigger chuck which my previous one didn’t have. I like the variable speed as well. Would recommend
Had to utube how to change the bits. Other than that its a good product which you can purchase more bits when needed
Brought as a replacement for another one I had as the old one jammed
Great for small projects. I have used this for so many jobs around the house and on the car.
good product ,early delivery, what more can you ask for ,many thanks RA.
Good tool all round but had to return one because the lock had stopped holding.
This is a Very Versatile piece of kit that opens up a wide range of supported tools for just about any small job
Treat them reasonably, I burnt the last one out, totally my fault as they are well made just not designed for grinding welds for hours at a time!
She loves it has to get some accessories to cut metal but it is a good piece of ki
Would like to have a had a tile cutter in this set but sadly had to buy it else where. Really good produc
I bought this for a considerably cheaper price from Amazon Warehouse. After returning a sub standard made in China copy which packed in after 10 mins, i decided to buy the real deal and i wasnt dissapointed. It does exactly as it says on the box.
The dremmel is a fantastic little tool and made short work of a couple of tricky jobs that i had to do. Dont be put off by buying something that has been returned, Amazon warehouse have some excellent deals and quality items. Avoid those cheap copies.
Good value compared to other outlets, the product itself is clearly very versatile and has lots of options but I found it quite hard to use. Probably just my lack of skills!
No signs of melting, and still going strong. I do recommend you research and then buy the correct disc/grinding/sanding bit for the task in hand. And buy official Dremel if you want to have decent results. There are lots of cheapy discs and sets, which can be fine for rough stuff that you don’t really care about. The supplied cutting discs are a bit rubbish, but they have some use for the short amount of time they last. But if doing any significant cutting, then get the SpeedClic discs (and mandrel) for the task in hand (wood, metal, pvc).
Always use two hands, not just for safety, but for control as it has some pull. Safety glasses and a mask. Unplug when changing bits, it is very easy to knock the speed controller when handing the Dremel as you try to fiddle with the bits and there is no safety “push this button first then press this button to start” type of feature, it just slides on and and then you have to manually slide it back to turn it off. It will do some serious damage if it turns on when your hands are anywhere near the spindle.
Great piece of kit for a reasonable price. I have a similar tool from a different manufacturer which is okay, but lacks the fine speed control & level of torque of the Dremel. These units have previously priced themselves out of the market for me, as I didn’t use them often enough to justify the price. This one, however, cost around 30 & is worth every penny.
Nicely presented, only little niggle is the plastic box that holds the accessories, which is a bit rubbish. No complaints really though & the outer case is very nice.
If I could get a cordless version for a similar price I would be tempted, as I tend to twist the cord, but that’s down to me & not the equipment.
Recommended.
*Update*
I should have updated this 2 years ago, I didn’t realise I could!
After fairly minimal use & certainly less than the own-brand version that I own, it stopped working.
Pushing down on the speed control would sometimes get it going again, but it would cut out after a few seconds.
I’m an electrician, so took things into my own hands, stripping the tool down & cleaning up the contacts. It worked for another couple of months (not in constant use, of course) then failed again.
I haven’t bothered with it since, will probably open it up again & do another repair, but I now see the reason that a tool that cost 100 in the 1990’s can sell for a third of that 30 years later.
Avoid it! You may as well buy a copy unit from Aldi etc & at least if that fails you’ll tell yourself it was because it was own brand & you didn’t expect much of it!
Someone suggested buying a 20 year old used unit instead & I think they had a good point.
I needed a replacement for my dying dremel 300 and this was a nice alternative to buying replacement parts that equaled the same price.
I always use the keyless chuck for the dremel instead of the default chuck due to a fear of fast rotating things coming loose and smashing into my ballistic safety goggles or my flesh, I’ve only used this new dremel so far for polishing a tungsten ring with diamond polishing compound (10, 2.5, and 0.5 micron) and it took my tarnished ring which i had lost for 7 months behind the decking in my garden and it revived it to look brand new!
You get a little box with a few attachments in this kit, and you might want to buy one of the 200 piece kit boxes that are available on Amazon so you can do everything with your dremel unless you already have a collection, you get a two year warranty which is rather nice of Dremel.
I love my dremel as it can do nearly anything.
Changing the fittings is really straightforward and not really much different to a cordless drill. I also think it will be very easy to break the various fittings by applying too much pressure too them as they are quite small.
This model has various speed settings controlled by a switch which makes granular speed control very difficult. Sometimes you want to start very slowly and gradually speed up, like with a normal drill that has variable speed on the trigger, but the first switch position on this is like 5000 rpm and the top speed is 30,000 rpm. It also sounds like this type of speed control switch is prone to failure… I wonder if the lower speeds put too much resistance through the switch and potentially burns it out.
Before clicking buy on this make sure you also buya pair of safety goggles if you don’t already have them. The very last thing you want is a cutting disc breaking off and shooting off into your eye at 30,000 rpm!
I bought this Multi-tool mainly for woodwork and cleaning metal, but am looking forward to seeing what else this clever bit of kit can do.
The Dremel 3000’s body is not as bulky as I thought it would be (and not as heavy as I thought it would be) – especially as they have an optional attachment for ‘fine details’ with a flexbile cable and smaller tool end. If anything, I am now eager to buy this attachment to see what level of control and detail can be achieved as the base unit itself is so good!
Speed is easy to control with a variable slide switch and changing tools/bits is very easy and straightforward.
The build quality is overall pretty good. The kit comes in a semi-rigid neoprene case which is great to keep all attachments in and keep the unit clean. There is a soft rubber grip to prevent the tool from slipping and the rest of the body is made from a good quality plastic.
The one thing that concerns me is the blue button which is used to hold the shaft still whilst you change tips. It doesn’t feel flimsy, but I imagine over time this will become either ‘sticky’ or fail. I have used it a few times and the motion of this button just doesn’t feel as smooth as it perhaps should be. Ideally, this button and all mechanism underneath it should have been made of metal to give a stronger hold of the shaft (hence the one star mark down).
Apart from that, the rest of the unit is great and it is still very good value for money.
The packaging is rather minimal, just a cardboard box with the case inside. Some reviewers on Amazon have complained about the case being flimsy and poorly made, but personally I find the case to be perfectly fine and ideal for storing the dremel in (plus it also has space for my safety glasses and dust mask, which I would say are accessories you MUST buy to go with this dremel as it can send dust and dirt flying). Maybe I had lower expectations than other reviewers, but I find it great that they include a case to go with it at all, and this case is certainly sturdy enough for the job.
The tool itself is great, featuring five different speeds. I was one of those people who couldn’t see the need for different speeds and thought I’d have it on high all the time, but the different speeds definitely come in handy as what one speed is good for is bad for another.
When I was deciding which model of Dremel to buy, I had no idea what all this talk of mandrels and collets and stuff was, so I will endeavour to explain in my review. The collet is the piece which you insert the pieces into the dremel, and it holds onto them. There is a lot of talk in other reviews about multi-chucks, which will allow you to insert third party attachments of different sizes without the need for an assortment of collets. The accessories that come with the Dremel all fit into the collet provided without any adjustment, but if you were going to buy some third party accessories that required different sized collets, I can see how a multi-chuck attachment would come in handy. The mandrel, on the other hand, is the long metal piece which you screw the saw attachments into.
The instructions that come with the tool are indeed dire. Saying they are dire is actually too high a praise, as I found them to be confusing and absolutely no help whatsoever. I consider myself a pretty smart, switched on person, but even for me it took me 10-15 to figure it out, during which time I thought I had broken the tool (word of advice: you need to push the piece into the collet quite hard the first time you use it, even though it looks like it won’t go in), but I got there in the end.
The “EZ Twist” feature that is so keenly advertised is something of nothing, as it’s perfectly easy for me to just twist the collet with my fingers, but perhaps it would be useful for someone without my slim, lady fingers.
The “15” accessories that come with the tool is a slight exaggeration. I found it difficult to find online what exactly you get with it, so here is the list:
– Grinding stone
– 2 polishing pads with one screw in mandrel
– 1 bristle cleaning brush
– 4 cutting disks with one screw mandrel
– 4 sanding bands with one holder
– 1 drill attachment
– 1 wrench/screwdriver
While it is 15 accessories, that’s not 15 different functions, but I have found that for general use for DIY around the house, it’s got everything you need to start off. Additional accessories are available online rather cheaply, should you want anything else, and there are dozens of different attachments you can get. One gripe I do have is that I have managed to break 3 of the 4 cutting disks that came with it within a week of (fairly hardcore) cutting, but since I can get 18 more for 1.50 on Amazon, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
I’ve had this Dremel a week now, and in that time I have successfully cut through thick plastic, cut through PVC pipe, cut, drilled and sanded wood, used the bristle brush to clean silicone residue from glass and it has dealt with all of these tasks without issue. I actually found that with cutting the plastic and wood, the higher speeds were so fast that the plastic melted and the wood burned so it just goes to show how powerful this tool is. Not a problem though, as you just turn the speed down. Admittedly, it is not always the ideal tool for the job. There is another reviewer on Amazon complaining that he struggled to cut enough tiles for his entire bathroom with this tool. It is definitely not the ideal tool for pretty much any job you can do with this, but it can deal with more heavy duty tasks. If you live in a flat, or even if you just don’t want your shed filled and the expense of a separate saw, drill, cleaner, polisher, sander etc etc etc, then this tool is absolutely ideal and I am thrilled with it.
The power cable is sufficiently long and doesn’t get in the way at all. I did consider going for a cordless version, but even on the packaging Dremel admit that the cordless versions just aren’t as powerful as the corded ones.
To conclude, this is not the ideal tool for any job, but if you want a tool that is capable of A LOT of jobs then this is the one for you and it represents excellent value for money. I’d like to knock off some points for the diabolical instructions and the broken cutting disks, but all in all the tool is so brilliant and has so many uses that I can’t comfortably do that, as it’s only a minor irritation.
The switch and speed control are combined and need fine control to get the setting required. I Would have preferred infinite rather than stepped speed settings.
The unit come with several tools which I didn’t need as I have lots of them already. The unit comes with only one collet and my other collets from previous units don’t fit in the 3000. If you want to use thicker or thinner shafts then other collets must be purchased separately. The EZ twist nose cap is a waste of time as the ordinary collect wrench is quicker and less cumbersome. However I can highly recommend the seperate 4486 keyless chuck. This allows bits from .4 to 3.4 mm to be changed quickly. Why Dremel don’t sell all kits with this chuck as standard and ditch the collet system is beyond me.
Some reviewer complain of short life. Before use the unit must be run at full speed with no load for 5 minutes to bed the brushes in. I wonder how many people just get it out the box and start work. The brushes must be checked regularly and are easily changed.
Time will tell if it lasts the course but so far I’m impressed.
The packaging is rather minimal, just a cardboard box with the case inside. Some reviewers on Amazon have complained about the case being flimsy and poorly made, but personally I find the case to be perfectly fine and ideal for storing the dremel in (plus it also has space for my safety glasses and dust mask, which I would say are accessories you MUST buy to go with this dremel as it can send dust and dirt flying). Maybe I had lower expectations than other reviewers, but I find it great that they include a case to go with it at all, and this case is certainly sturdy enough for the job.
The tool itself is great, featuring five different speeds. I was one of those people who couldn’t see the need for different speeds and thought I’d have it on high all the time, but the different speeds definitely come in handy as what one speed is good for is bad for another.
When I was deciding which model of Dremel to buy, I had no idea what all this talk of mandrels and collets and stuff was, so I will endeavour to explain in my review. The collet is the piece which you insert the pieces into the dremel, and it holds onto them. There is a lot of talk in other reviews about multi-chucks, which will allow you to insert third party attachments of different sizes without the need for an assortment of collets. The accessories that come with the Dremel all fit into the collet provided without any adjustment, but if you were going to buy some third party accessories that required different sized collets, I can see how a multi-chuck attachment would come in handy. The mandrel, on the other hand, is the long metal piece which you screw the saw attachments into.
The instructions that come with the tool are indeed dire. Saying they are dire is actually too high a praise, as I found them to be confusing and absolutely no help whatsoever. I consider myself a pretty smart, switched on person, but even for me it took me 10-15 to figure it out, during which time I thought I had broken the tool (word of advice: you need to push the piece into the collet quite hard the first time you use it, even though it looks like it won’t go in), but I got there in the end.
The “EZ Twist” feature that is so keenly advertised is something of nothing, as it’s perfectly easy for me to just twist the collet with my fingers, but perhaps it would be useful for someone without my slim, lady fingers.
The “15” accessories that come with the tool is a slight exaggeration. I found it difficult to find online what exactly you get with it, so here is the list:
– Grinding stone
– 2 polishing pads with one screw in mandrel
– 1 bristle cleaning brush
– 4 cutting disks with one screw mandrel
– 4 sanding bands with one holder
– 1 drill attachment
– 1 wrench/screwdriver
While it is 15 accessories, that’s not 15 different functions, but I have found that for general use for DIY around the house, it’s got everything you need to start off. Additional accessories are available online rather cheaply, should you want anything else, and there are dozens of different attachments you can get. One gripe I do have is that I have managed to break 3 of the 4 cutting disks that came with it within a week of (fairly hardcore) cutting, but since I can get 18 more for 1.50 on Amazon, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
I’ve had this Dremel a week now, and in that time I have successfully cut through thick plastic, cut through PVC pipe, cut, drilled and sanded wood, used the bristle brush to clean silicone residue from glass and it has dealt with all of these tasks without issue. I actually found that with cutting the plastic and wood, the higher speeds were so fast that the plastic melted and the wood burned so it just goes to show how powerful this tool is. Not a problem though, as you just turn the speed down. Admittedly, it is not always the ideal tool for the job. There is another reviewer on Amazon complaining that he struggled to cut enough tiles for his entire bathroom with this tool. It is definitely not the ideal tool for pretty much any job you can do with this, but it can deal with more heavy duty tasks. If you live in a flat, or even if you just don’t want your shed filled and the expense of a separate saw, drill, cleaner, polisher, sander etc etc etc, then this tool is absolutely ideal and I am thrilled with it.
The power cable is sufficiently long and doesn’t get in the way at all. I did consider going for a cordless version, but even on the packaging Dremel admit that the cordless versions just aren’t as powerful as the corded ones.
To conclude, this is not the ideal tool for any job, but if you want a tool that is capable of A LOT of jobs then this is the one for you and it represents excellent value for money. I’d like to knock off some points for the diabolical instructions and the broken cutting disks, but all in all the tool is so brilliant and has so many uses that I can’t comfortably do that, as it’s only a minor irritation.
I am not new to rotary tools, but I am not much of a handyman either; mine are the comments of a near clueless amateur.
My use varies; I have used such tools for polishing, cutting, sanding for small-scale modelling and lately (thanks to the Dremel in fact) a little bit of engraving and grinding/ sharpening.
The multi-tool
The first point to make is that the tool feels solidly constructed; it has speed control over a wide range (you may find that 1-2 of the first speeds do not actually work and may be superfluous in the first place) which is a blessing and it does not get worryingly hot at top speed — which I rarely use, but thought I’d mention. The grip is good as is, even though I prefer the flexible shaft for most jobs.
The difference with my other tool lies in the power and the rpm consistency: i.e. the Dremel does not falter even under pressure and continues to operate without fluctuations in the rpm. In practical terms for me, this opened up new applications and better results. I discovered how to scrape away grime & polish a seashell and that I could polish a stone and etch letters on it with some degree of success; also, polishing now takes considerably less time & the results are predictable and better.
The actual set has the advantage of being inexpensive but the accessories included are more of an afterthought: what you are really purchasing is the Mutlitool While I had the advantage of having a whole array of aftermarket accessories already, people purchasing their first multitool should keep in mind that accessories are a mandatory supplementary investment.
It is important to note that there are two indispensable tools which are note included with this set: a) an aftermarket set of Dremel collets of various sizes that allow you to use most ANY attachment b) the flexible shaft making precision related tasks much easier. The first will set you back about 8-10 while the other is even dearer 20-30! Sets of aftermarket accessories come in many sizes, shapes, and prices including some competitively priced by Dremel themselves.
The “kit”.
SO, while the Dremel is an excellent product (no doubt about that) and it comes in a nice pouch, choose your Dremel kit carefully: there may be another one slightly more expensive which includes what this particular kit does not. If not, you have to budget in some near indispensable after-market purchases.