Which dremel attachments do you guys use for modding cases?
is there a xx piece set that has all/most of the ones we'd need? i want to do a nice job of cutting out the fangrill in my SFF amongst other things
will be for a dremel 8000


Thanks

Ive only ever used a cutting wheel.

Fiberglass-reinforced cutting wheels, while expensive, are the most useful items as they can grind and cut at the same time.

what about the diamond tipped cutting wheels/slot cutters for doing fan grills? or does one come with it that is good enough?

Diamond on steel cutting wheel, when I bought my kit it came with the fibreglass variety but I can get abusive so I use the fibreglass ones on plastic only.

or. you can use a tin snips...

I often use the flap wheels to quickly de-burr sheetmetal. This completely eliminates sharp edges.

Yeah, no safety glasses required.

I use my dremel for smoothing rough edges and tin snips for cutting.

my p180 already has the grills tin snipped out so will use the dremel to neaten them up, which attachment would be best for that?

If the cut edges are not clean (lots of excess metal) and burred real bad, then a metal grinding stone will be the best. If it's just sharp edges that need to be rounded off, see three posts up.

A neat trick is to take some masking tape and make a layer of it behind the grille opening's offset. I sometimes also use a hollowed out fan for this as a bit of extension tube as it were. This keeps a lot of the metal dust out of the case.

Oh - I use the fiberglass wheel and carefully grind the edges clean after cutting. Oh - and wear blue jeans. Expect a good 1-2 foot shower of sparks as well.

While remaking my main system for a Bulldozer upgrade I'm going to take the oportunity to cut away the rear vent on my Define R3. Since tin snips leave a lot of leftovers I thought I'd give a cheap Dremel copy a try, using some quality attachment like Dremels own. I don't want to use cutting discs for sake of safety and my lack of experience and good work area, so I was thinking that going these short distances of not too thick steel should be doable with some sort of grinding or cutting pin. Going the easy route and maybe helping out with the snips in a few places, would it be doable using grinding pins(down left) or should I get some sort of cutting bit(down right)? I don't mind if it takes a while if there is less work to do afterwards. I've also seen some grinding pins with a diamond coat that are also thinner, would those be speedier or perhaps they're more for glass?