Quick Change Handpiece for Your Flex Shaft
If you spend a lot of time using your flex shaft, I can’t recommend enough purchasing a quick change handpiece. When I first purchased my beloved Foredom flex shaft, I was in heaven. I happily tried out many different flex shaft accessories, using the tool that comes with the flex shaft, the chuck key, to insert the mandrel of the accessory (the straight piece of metal that is the base of the accessory).
However, as I got rolling, I was increasingly irritated using the chuck key, the tool that tightens/loosens the jaws of the handpiece around the mandrel. You had to tighten it in 3-4 places around the handpiece to put in a new accessory. Sometimes the mandrel goes in crooked and you have loosen in all three places to start over!
Hallelujah moment: the quick change handpiece
While in a jewelry making class, I saw the instructor quickly changing flex shaft accessory mandrels with a black handpiece with which he pulled apart, whipped in the new mandrel, then snapped back together. I trucked right up to him and asked what the heck that magical thing was. It was a quick change handpiece, Foredom #52, that required no tightening/loosening of the chuck in three places, no starting over if the mandrel was in crooked. You could almost hear the Mission Impossible woosh and click each time a mandrel was changed in one motion.
Suffice it to say, I’ve never looked back. I highly recommend this tool! I purchased mine from Gesswein Jewelry Tools and Supplies.
