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There are few things that enrage me more than companies that ride on a once well-deserved reputation for quality in order to sell utter garbage to unsuspecting consumers, and Dremel fits this description perfectly. I still have my previous two Dremel tools -- purchased in 1993 and 1995. Both still work, but are showing their age, so I bought a new one. It lasted less than six months before seizing up. I opened it up to see if I could repair the problem, and found that what was apparently a plastic bearing surface had melted. I use the tool for light-duty work in my electronic fabrication hobby, so it's not as if I were abusing it. This item is trash, pure and simple, and it's emblematic of the reason that "Made in America" has been reduced to a meaningless marketing ploy by dishonest bean-counters.