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Summary: When buying a rotary tool as a gift, consider which attachments work best with regard to the projects being performed. Buy a rotary tool as a gift with tips from a home repairman in this free video on home improvements.
James Drew is the owner and president of JNC Home Repair in Austin, TX. An HVAC certified tech with over two decades experience in plumbing, masonry and carpentry, Drew and his wife...read more
"Hi, I'm James, with J&C Home Repair. Today I'm going to show you how to buy a rotary tool as a gift. Really, there's really no difference between rotary tools, they're all basically all the same. The only difference in it is the type of attachments that come with it. There's polishing attachments, there's stuff that you can do sanding with, they've got little attachments that you can do cutting with, a grinding disc, little flapper wheels. There's all different types of things for sanding, polishing, cutting, shaping, molding, it just depends on what kind of hobbies or whatever purposes whoever you're buying the gift for prefers to do. They have them where they just come with the basic rotary tool with just a couple of attachments, and then they have these gift sets that come out and they've got a hundred different pieces that you can attach to your rotary tool. And those are a nice thing to give as a gift because it gives you a lot of options as far as what they can do with it. As far as just the rotary tool, though, they're basically all the same. Some of them are a little bit more powerful than the other ones, and will handle a little heavier work load. But just try to know a little something about who you're buying the gift for and then just base that, what you're buying the tool for, just base your information on that on what to give him."
eHow Article: How to Buy a Rotary Tool as a Gift