3 useful ideas for the home handyman

You can do something well, reliably and beautifully even with a minimum of tools; for this you need to show ingenuity and perseverance. Let's look at 3 useful ideas that may come in handy.

Connecting profile pipes without welding

If you do not have a welding machine, but you are planning to assemble some kind of metal structure from a profile pipe, then prepare dry wooden inserts. They are tightly packed into the ends of the pipes.

Now the pipes are connected to each other using a steel mounting angle using wood screws. To do this, holes are drilled in them. The result is a reliable detachable connection.

Tape knife

Those who often use tape, especially reinforced tape, will like the idea of a homemade knife for cutting it like a dispenser. To make it, a blank 4-5 cm wider is cut out of a wide strip of thin sheet steel using tape. The width of the roll is marked on it in the center.
Between the marks on the plate, teeth are cut and sharpened. Then the plate is bent from the sides. The part of the knife behind the teeth is cut out.

The knife is placed on the roll of tape and cuts it when pulling the tape to the side. Due to the wavy cut, finding such an edge will be much easier.

Pipe cutter for plastic pipes

To carefully cut plastic sewer pipes, you can make a pipe cutter that immediately removes the chamfer. To do this, use a plastic bracket for a pipe of the required diameter. A wooden handle with a thread is screwed to it.

Then metal self-tapping screws with a sharpened tip are screwed onto the edges of the bracket.

Now, having installed the bracket on the pipe and lightly tightened the screws, you need to wrap the pipe cutter several times. Then the screws are tightened, and everything is repeated until the pipe is cut.