Shoppin list!! (help)

[thewise1]

I'm going on a shopping spree tomorrow for new tools. Here's my list, I was wondering if there's anything else I needed on here. This list if mostly for case modding though.
*EDIT* FINAL LIST*

1. Dremel with basic circular cutter (cutting wheels, sanding, grinding, shield based cutting head)

2. bondo

3. sandpaper (60, 120, 300, 400, 500)

4. desoldering iron and braid

5. pcb (mounting tact switches and joysticks on)

6. heatsinks and thermal paste

7. dpdt switches and pcb board

8. rosin flux

9. switches and other convenient buttons

[XCVG]

1. You want the dremel with cutting wheels, sanding, grinding, and one of those cutting-head-shield-base thingamabobers. My cheapy $9 knockoff comes with almost all of that.
3. You're going to want some grits between 60 and 300, maybe 120 and 220? Also you may want some finer than 400.
4. Don't bother. A sucker is better for big leads and braid is good for small ones (though a sucker WILL work). Just get either a sucker or braid, preferably both.
6. Don't buy from Radio Shack. It's a ripoff. However out of that I recommend DPDT slide switches, phone plugs and jacks (mono and stereo), RCA connectors, and maybe some banana plugs. Flux is useful in certain situations- better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. Get rosin liquid type.
7. Thermal paste can be useful. The general consensus is that it doesn't matter what you use as long as you use something. You'll get a few more degrees with better stuff, nothing big. Make sure what you get is NON CONDUCTIVE! For heatsinks ramsinks are useful but it's kind of 1 package=1 project.

Do you have a soldering iron? Solder? Wire?

[thewise1]

Yeah I've got all the other standard solder stuff. I have to buy from radio shack because it's the only place in town that has that kind of stuff. And I've never really had a problem with my purchases there.

alright here's what I'll get for sandpaper:

60, 120, 300, 400, 500 that should be good enough

and for heads

cutting wheels, sanding, grinding, that shield based cutting head, I'll figure out what it is

and rosin liquid flux + non conductive thermal paste

[Jon]

Why do you need 60 grit sandpaper? That stuff is basically little pebbles glued to paper. It tears through hardwood without much effort. Stick with 120, 220, and 400 for plastic. That's the order I go in for finishing up wood projects and it works just as well on plastic. Careful with the 120 though, if you put down too much pressure when sanding, you'll put some dips / valleys in your project.

[thewise1]

K jon, I wonder if they make one, just one big rock with paper stuck to it lol

[Jon]

You can buy as low as 24 grit, I had to use some to radius a seriously dense wood (ebony). It was like the most rough gravel you can imagine.

[thewise1]

Wow, might as well take is outside to the gravel concrete, that must have been some really toug wood, I guess I don't need 60 for plastic

[Gordon1]

If you are contouring Bondo, 60 grit is actually a god send. Just use it to give rough shape and use finer grits to perfect it. OH, and sand in circles and weird directions, so it doesn't groove the surface too much.

[thewise1]

Oh thanks gordon, if I need it for bondo I'll get 60 grit. By the way is the sandpaper and dremel sanding heads interchangeable?

[XCVG]

Oh thanks gordon, if I need it for bondo I'll get 60 grit. By the way is the sandpaper and dremel sanding heads interchangeable?

No. Dremel sanding heads are fancy tubes. You could probably just hot glue sandpaper on to the drum but it wouldn't work well at all.