Power Tools Gone Wild

I am getting into a daily routine and enjoying every aspect of it.  After getting the kids off to school, I spend the first 30 minutes to an hour cleaning out bead holes with my dremel.  I try to finish up by 8:30, but if they're not all done I let them soak in the sink while I head into my studio to melt glass for an hour.  But this morning was a little different.

After ten minutes of dremeling (yes, I made that into a verb.  and I also sing to myself "Here I Go a Dremeling, a Dremeling I Go" to the tune of a Christmas carol.  and yes, I know I'm a dork.) it sped up for a moment and made a high pitched noise (more so than the normal high pitched dremel noise).  I turned it off, checked out the tightness of the bit in the tip and then went back to cleaning beads for another ten minutes.  And that's when my dremel went AWOL and sent itself into hyperdrive.  It wouldn't turn off and the speed could not be adjusted with the dial.

I haven't ever had a power tool misbehave like this, so I did the only sensible thing I could do.  I walked out the front door with my hyperdrive dremel in hand and marched myself over to my neighbor's house.  He is a power tool king and also has extra power tool knowledge through the osmosis of working at Home Depot part time.  He had never seen a power tool do this, either.  And so in the end, after it wouldn't shut off and had started smoking, my poor dremel was beaten to death on the cement sidewalk until it stopped whirring.  It lived a good life, but apparently two years is the limit for these little hand held rechargeable devices.  Sniff.

Now that I am back from Home Depot with a new replacement, the remaining beads have been cleaned.  I am sticking to fall colors this week in the hopes it will help get me more excited about Autumn as I say goodbye to my favorite season.

The kiln is now full with over another fifty beads from sitting in front of my torch today.  I will be busy tomorrow cleaning, photographing, blogging and listing so everything is ready before the next shop update in a little more than 24 hours.