12 Ways To Use Oscillating Tools For Your Next DIY Project
An oscillating multitool is a saw, scraper, sander, and grinder in one handy power tool. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
If you don't own an oscillating multitool, buy one and you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. It's a saw, scraper, sander, and grinder in one handy power tool. Oscillating tool uses are varied, too, because the multitool can complete jobs in inaccessible places, speeding difficult projects to completion in the process.
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And the variety of attachments for these tools keeps growing, allowing even more versatility, especially among different materials: steel, aluminum, carpet, hard tile, soft tile, hardwood, softwood, and various plastics.
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Roy Berendsohn has worked for more than 25 years at Popular Mechanics, where he has written on carpentry, masonry, painting, plumbing, electrical, woodworking, blacksmithing, welding, lawn care, chainsaw use, and outdoor power equipment. When he’s not working on his own house, he volunteers with Sovereign Grace Church doing home repair for families in rural, suburban and urban locations throughout central and southern New Jersey.
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