5 useful workshop ideas
Often, there are not enough suitable tools or equipment to perform any work. After studying this collection of useful ideas, you will learn how to make adapters for drills and drills, connect worm-drive clamps, etc. Knowing these secrets, you can always make do with what you have, making the necessary things out of it in a couple of minutes, and not run to the store every time you need it.
1. Polishing wheel for a drill
You can make a polishing wheel for a drill yourself. It is made from a piece of felt. A hole is made in the resulting disk into which a blind rivet is inserted.
The washer is put on it and the rivet is slightly retracted. That's it, the equipment is ready. You can make small discs from one large one for emery. It costs less than the number of small circles obtained from it, if you had to buy them.
2. Splicing of worm clamps
If you don't have a large worm clamp, but have several smaller ones, you can connect them. To do this, they completely unwind. After this, one clamp is inserted into the mechanism of the second, and vice versa.We get one large one, but with two screws.
3. How to evenly stick a perforated grinding wheel onto a sander
To ensure that the grinding wheel adheres perfectly to the soleplate of the sander and their holes match, you need 2 pencils or ballpoint pens. They are inserted with the back side into the holes on the sole. Then the skin is put on top. It will fit perfectly according to the guides.
4. Adapter for flap wheel for drill
To work with a flap wheel on a drill, you need to assemble a simple adapter. To do this, put a washer on the M8 or M10 bolt.
A centering washer is installed in it, and again a large washer. Then the structure is clamped with a nut. Now it can be adopted into a drill or screwdriver.
5. Convenient way to store screwdrivers
To make a stand, you need to drill one wall of a plastic pipe with an 8 mm drill in 20 mm increments. Then the tube between the holes is cut into rings.
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All that remains is to screw the rings with self-tapping screws onto the block and hang it on the wall. As a result, we get a stand for screwdrivers. It will also be possible to place narrow files, chisels and awls in it.
