Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:49 pm by Rumball Solutions
Thanks Gordon, your reply helped me to understand the constraints better. Agreed, based on the dimensions stated, stock removal as you did is best solution.
Don't you sometimes wish you had a mini steel foundry! It would be so much easier to rough cast and finish things. I'm exploring the idea of some brass and aluminium casting on small scale at the moment.
As for rotary tools, wired is the way to go for sure. I have two wired dremels because it saves changing bits sometimes. As for cordless, they're often quite anemic. The exception being the Milwaukee M12 fuel cordless rotary tool. I bought one for fitting strikes, adjusting door preps and cutting padlock shackles when in the field. It handles like a dremel, just with significantly more grunt! Definitely not a quiet tool though.