Testing the Cordless Dremel Ultra Saw

Chances are if you work with your hands you don't work only in one specific arena. You end up doin a lot of different stuff, maybe some woodworking, maybe some home repair, maybe some auto or motorcycle repair, lots of different crafts, lots of different DIY and so as a result of that because you do a lot of different stuff it's handy to have a tool that also does a lot of different stuff. And that's where this Dremel Ultra-Saw comes in. With blade changes, what's cool about this is that we can cut many many different items. From wood to metal to tile to masonry and that's what gives it the versatility that people like me, who work with their hands need because of all the different stuff that we find ourselves involved in. It's got dust collection on it, so that great of course to keep your environment clean, keep your lungs clean. And with the handle on here, great control over how we're making those cuts. I love the fact that it's battery operated so that we're not married into an outlet someplace. We don't have to find an electrical supply in order to the work and again if you're a DIY'er you know that you often end up in place where coming across power to plug into isn't always the easiest thing. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm just gonna go through a series of cuts, do a blade change and then go from item to item to item here so you can see how this baby works and what it does. The Ultra-Saw's got a maximum thickness capacity of 3/4". Now when you're cutting anything, particularly looking at this piece of plywood, you can cut freehand, like I am here, so I'm simply following the pencil line that I put on. Alternatively, you can add a fence to the Ultra-Saw and use that as a guide to make sure that you're cutting parallel to an existing edge. Using the same blade that we used on wood, on that plywood, we can also cut PVC pipe. And in the case of a large diameter pipe like this, easiest way to do is just to work your way around, keeping the pipe in a clamp or some other holding device so that it doesn't spin away as you're trying to cut it. That same blade is also good for laminate flooring and what a handy thing to be able to just use this saw so you can cut and go as you're laying the laminate flooring down especially as you start to work that flooring around obstacles like pipes or corners around the floor. It's easy to pop the blade off the Ultra-Saw, pop on the right one, so in this case it's actually a diamond blade and we'll use that for cutting tile. Cutting first from the top face, in order to get the preliminary cuts done following my layout line and then flip it over in order to finish that last little bit of inside corner. Nother blade change here to an aluminum oxide cutoff wheel and with that we can easily plow through metal, like this piece of one by one square tubing I've got. Notice on this cut that although the saw's got good onboard dust collection I'm not using it for metal. You don't wanna draw those hot sparks into your shot vac. Another blade change this time to the flush cutting blade. Notice with this one it's on the outside, rather than being underneath the guard here and what that's gonna let me do is make a cut here that's very handy, very interesting. Here's the scenario, this is the wall in your house, which probably has drywall on it not plywood. Your wall has base mold on it and you're making a transition in your flooring to a hardwood floor or a laminate floor and in order to do that you really wanna be able to slip that new floor under the existing base mold without taking it all off. That's where the flush cut comes in and here's how this works. Use your new flooring as a guide that shim is gonna tell us right where to cut. That little strip comes out. That lets our flooring slip under and have that taped in place so that wouldn't slip as we were goin, then with a piece of quarter round , you're all set. So overall, you know, it's nice to have a tool that does as many different things as I do. And like I said when I started, if you're working with your hands, you're probably working with your hands on a lot of different areas, lot of different categories, so it's handy to have something that can keep up with ya.