11/23/2023 0 Comments Dremel multi tool saw hand![]() ![]() From sanding finish to cutting hardwood, the 2.3 amp MM20 performed competently, even more so when you consider its ultra-low price point. I didn’t feel quite the same smoothness and precision I’ve felt from $150 – $250+ rivals, but I also didn’t experience bad performance. When dialed back to a more reasonable speed for the task at hand, the MM20 did the job very respectably. The MM20, set way too high for that task, almost caught the wood on fire thanks to some serious oscillating friction. At one point, when cutting some white oak flooring with the tool, I had forgotten I left the power dial on 10 (the tool delivers 10,000 – 21,000 oscillations per minute, on par with most rival OMT’s). I found the the MM20 to have very acceptable power. The reality is you really don’t need that much juice to swing a small blade back and forth 3 degrees, at least not for most OMT jobs. But does it really need to be? Most name brand oscillating multi-tools are in the 2.5 to 3.0 amp range. The MM20 helping me correct a finishing oops MM20 Performanceĭon’t forget the right speed for the right materialAt 2.3 amps, the MM20 Multi-Max isn’t a current-devouring powerhouse. I used the OMT for jobs like completing notched cuts from the table saw precisely, and for sanding an “ooops” moment where I accidentally left a small ocean of finish where it proceeded to wick away the stain. I got my hands on the Dremel MM20 Multi-Max featured in this review towards the tail end of the hardwood flooring project that followed the demolition marathon mentioned above. ![]() Cutting with precision in hardwood is one area where OMT’s like the MM20 really shine but they’re so handy I just couldn’t stay away. At one point I think I vowed never to use an oscillating multi tool again. I had a buzzing Bosch MX30 in my hands for much of those 14 hour days of eternal scraping. An oscillating multi-tool, or OMT, was the only tool (believe me, I tried several) that could wiggle its way under the glued-down layers of this ancient floor of doom. In fact, before we received the Dremel MM20 for this sponsored post, I spent three gruelling days on my hands and knees scraping up, inch-by-inch, some of the most stubbornly glued/stapled down, decades-old flooring ever. I have been using oscillating multi-tools a lot lately. But can the $59 Dremel Multi-Max MM20-07 kit really deliver performance and utility at a price point that would bring a smile to any tool bargain hunter’s face? ![]() All for what I used to spend on a blade or two back in the day. Let alone one that sports 2.3 amps of power and even comes with some of the more essential basic accessories. We’ve come a long way from there, and it would have been hard to imagine a name brand oscillating multi tool for $59. Worst of all, the accessories attached with only an allen bolt, making them prone to accidental rotation. Tool accessories were priced as if a $500/hour lawyer had put them in a rucksack and personally paddled them across the ocean. ” I’d proclaim, “if you wanted an oscillating multi-tool you could only buy a Fein, you’d have to save up for years just to be able to afford it, and you’d have to hike hundreds of miles in the snow to find an actual store that carried it.” In those early pre-Internet days and before the Fein patent expired, owning the tool was just half the financial battle. It’s a bit scary that I have been around power tools long enough to sound like a grumpy old man when discussing oscillating multi-tools. ![]()
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