File toward the countertop to avoid cracking or chipping the laminate.
Can you cut laminate with a dremel.
They don t have a ball bearing and i read quite some horror stories of burn marks due to friction with those bits.
Trim a little at a time off of the countertop with the dremel.
That was enough for me to decide to shelve the dremel route for this type of jobs.
I remember having seen those in a couple home improvement stores over here.
If you re forced to cut a laminate sheet from the front with a power saw you can avoid chipping by laying masking tape along the cutline sawing through the tape and removing it after you re done.
Lightly file and round the cut edge using a flat file.
You can get a laminate trimming bit for a dremel.
The dremel tool does not have the horse power or the rpm to do the job the bit will burn the edge you can rent a laminate trimmer you will need a bit with a roller bearing so you don t burn the laminate.
You will want to have plenty of bits on hand because the laminate flooring is a dense and hard material and.
Plug up the dremel rotary tool turn it on and adjust the speed to its highest setting.
Hold the tool so that the spinning cutting disk is at a 90 degree angle to the surface of the countertop.
Turn your dremel rotary tool into a simple to use rotary saw.
One of the features of a dremel tool that is so fascinating is that it can be used to cut so many different materials and with the quick change of an accessory you can go from sharpening an ax blade to carving wood to trimming a piece of laminate flooring to size.
Much like with the sanding bits you might be tempted to think that cutting bits for your dremel tool is only able to be used with wood but again you would be mistaken.
Laminate flooring is made of a dense wood like material that cuts similar to wood.
Cut through the laminate with a flush trim router bit.
Regular cutting bits can be used for wood but if you need to cut things like thin metal aluminum or tile then you can use a fiberglass cutting bit instead.
