Anyone use Blue Hawks rotary tool?

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ulvdemon
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Anyone use Blue Hawks rotary tool?

Post by ulvdemon »

Happen to notice in the paper that Lowes is selling a rotary tool with accessories for 60% off. The company is Blue Hawk, never heard of them and reviews are scarce. Has anyone used this particular brand before?
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Post by LobsterOverlord »

Blue Hawk is the Lowe's Store brand of low price economy tools. They have Kobalt as their other brand of tools. I would pick it up, as I love lowe's store brand stuff. Good quality (albeit chinese-made most of the time) stuff. I wouldn't hesitate to buy it if it were something I needed to replace currently.

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Post by Kekker »

Can't speak for Blue Hawk, but I got a No-Namo brand set from Big Lots for really cheap. The tool itself was garbage - wobbly and close to no power at all.

But (and it's a big but!) what made it worthwhile was all the accessories that came with it: diamond coated bits, carbide bits, cut-off wheels, polishing wheels and compound, several collets and bunches of grinding bits of different grits. The "extras" were definitely worth several times what I paid for it.

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