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A pocket-sized tornado that grinds, cuts, polishes, and carves whatever you point it at
means A handheld power tool with a small, fast-spinning motor that accepts interchangeable bits to grind, sand, cut, polish, engrave, or drill.
from Built from plain working English: "rotary" comes through Latin "rotare," "to turn," from "rota," "wheel" — the same root spinning quietly inside "rotate" and "rotunda." "Tool" is older and homegrown, from Old English "tol," an implement, likely tied to a Germanic root meaning to make or prepare. So the name is just honest description: a tool that works by turning. The category became a household word largely through the Dremel brand, founded in the 1930s by Albert J. Dremel, so much so that "a Dremel" is now often used generically the way "Kleenex" stands in for tissue.
- top speed
- Spins up to 35,000 rotations per minute
- name origin
- Dremel is a brand that became a verb
- surgical use
- Dentists wield miniature versions in your mouth
- jailbreak fame
- Classic prison-escape tool in heist films
- attachment army
- Hundreds of swappable bits do nearly anything
dremel — handheld rotary tool brand founded in 1932, used for cutting, grinding, and polishing with interchangeable bits
flex sh — professional rotary tool by flex power tools, widely used for stone and concrete work in construction