[learning]

I just picked up a Harbor Freight hanging rotary tool (1/4 HP 5/32 in. Grinder/Carver Rotary Tool with Flexible Shaft and Foot Pedal) using the 20% off Father's Day coupon posted on their website. My friend has one for quite a few years now and it's worked well for him. I just couldn't justify spending hundreds of dollars on better quality rotary tools right now.

I needed a way to hang it high off the work bench.

I looked around and found an old ratcheting spreading bar clamp. They run around $9 at Harbor Freight: (36 in. Ratcheting Bar Clamp/Spreader).
It even has a hole at the end of the rod to which one could hang the rotary tool...works great.

 

[whichfinger]

I've done pretty much the same thing. My bar clamp doesn't have a handy spot to hang the motor, so I put a small c-clamp on the end and hung the motor from that.

 

[Radman1]

Cool info., Thanks. Off to my local Harbor Freight.

 

[M92pv4u]

My mother's jewelry store had small chains and teacup hooks hanging those tools from the ceiling, not too mobile though.

 

[learning]

thanks, great ideas

i'm really enjoying this forum. very friendly, very informative. glad i found it.

 

[Rosscoe]

My mother's jewelry store had small chains and teacup hooks hanging those tools from the ceiling, not too mobile though.

In Los Banos?

 

[M92pv4u]

In Los Banos?

Close... I was called Sawyers before she bought it.

 

[gmd1950]

I've had a Foredom tool for years but seldom use it.

 

[Arrowhead]

I have a 3/4" x 1 1/2" piece of oak about 14" long screwed to the bottom of a wooden shelf over my work table and have a large cup hook screwed into each side of the outer end. I have two dremels hanging from those hooks and when out of use I coil the shafts over the hooks and swing the arm out of my way. When needed I swing it out and it gives me plenty of slack in the shaft to work with. Since I found everything in my scrap box the cost was basically nothing. Excepting the dremel tools of course.

 

[FlysAlot]

Quiet! Nobody tell Boiler Jack! He’s a Harbor Freight junkie! We just got a nice new clean one and they fly a Citation so they can’t be all bad!

 

[Boilerjack22]

Quiet! Nobody tell Boiler Jack! He’s a Harbor Freight junkie! We just got a nice new clean one and they fly a Citation so they can’t be all bad!

I don’t need one of them, I don’t own a Mosin-Nagant