Homemade cars. Page 9

In a closed workshop or garage, you can get sick from smoke when working with welding or an angle grinder. To remove it from the room, powerful exhaust ventilation is needed. It can be assembled from sewer pipes and a duct fan.

For convenient car maintenance, it’s a good idea to have a car lift in your garage. By making it from a hydraulic cylinder from a loader or other special equipment, you can significantly save free space, since almost all the technical components

To make neat and durable wire clamps, you need a clamp. This tool will allow you to securely tighten the hose on tubes and fittings, tie poles, pull mesh onto poles, etc. You can make a clamp based on a stand

To make sure your garden hose lasts longer, it needs to be stored correctly. For this, it is advisable to have a coil.It will allow you to wind it up without any creases or twists, so that in the future it can be placed under a canopy where it will not be exposed to

To forever forget about the need to rotate the pedals when riding a bicycle, it must be equipped with an electric or gasoline drive. For long trips, of course, a gasoline engine is better, since when using it you do not need to make long trips.

It is impossible to clean delicate parts from rust and dirt by sanding. To do this, a special corrosion remover can be used, to improve the effect of which it is advisable to subject the part to strong vibration. This can be achieved with

The steel used to make valves is highly hard but not brittle. Therefore, the old valves remaining after engine repair can be used as blanks for the manufacture of various tools.

Many car owners are faced with the problem of condensation forming in car headlights or lanterns. This phenomenon spoils the appearance of the car and reduces the working life of the lamps. In this article I will tell you how, using improvised materials, I can

Over time, especially if there is no proper care, chrome-plated parts begin to rust.The stores are full of means to combat this evil, but many of them are harmful to humans, and they cost a lot of money. But there are simple and almost

This life hack will be useful to absolutely everyone, especially motorists. Let's imagine a situation where you need to tie a rope or rope to an immovable object such as a pole or log. If you tie a rope just like that, then after you

To blacken the side surface of tires, in addition to specialized compounds, you can use laundry soap, glycerin, brake fluid and antifreeze. These are fairly common solutions that many drivers use. They

Owners of old cars are faced with the problem of rusty holes appearing on the sills, arches and doors, which greatly spoils the appearance of the car. In a good way, such places should be cleaned and welded, but for this you need to have electric welding or

A useful crane and wheelbarrow with a lifting capacity of up to 200 kg is an indispensable item for transporting construction and other materials over short distances. Small-sized, maneuverable and easy to control - you definitely can’t buy one like this on our market. Have one

The post-screw jack from old VAZ models is not suitable for modern cars. At the same time, it differs from analogues in its higher lifting height, so in certain cases it is still the best for hydraulic bottle jacks. Due

When going winter fishing or spending the night in a tent, it’s a good idea to have a small heater to keep you warm or at least warm your hands. You can make it from an ordinary oil filter.

Over time, the painted plastic parts of the car interior become worn. First of all, abrasions appear on door trims and handles. Such defects can be completely corrected at home without the need for special equipment.

This piece of furniture in the Techno style will decorate not only a summer gazebo, living room, kitchen, but also the interior of a bar. It can be made without much expense, time and effort, if you have the skills to handle metal tools.

Motorcycles are many times more economical than cars, but refueling them with gasoline is not cheap. Reduce the cost of traveling on them, possibly replacing the internal combustion engine with an electric motor. This is an ideal solution for those who have their own

Car enthusiasts like to tune cars to add interest, charm, and simply beauty.For example, I, like many people, am not satisfied with the usual light from the rear lights. Therefore, today I will talk about how to do the tuning of the rear headlights on a Ford Focus yourself.

When a walk-behind tractor performs large volumes of work, the total gasoline consumption for the season reaches significant levels. Considering the cost of fuel, converting the engine to consume cheap gas is more than justified. Walk-behind tractor motor less

A car alternator needs servicing periodically. Usually, the installation of new bearings and brushes is required, but over time the contact rings on the rotor also wear out, the replacement of which is more labor-intensive and requires strict adherence to the order.

An ordinary car generator can be converted into a BLDC motor with sufficient power to propel an electric scooter. A pair of 12V car batteries is used as a power source for such a drive. So the cost

While repairing my car, I was faced with the need to protect body parts from rust, while the materials available to me were either expensive or not effective enough. After several days of searching, the question arose, what’s stopping me from cooking?

You can make a flashing light with the effect of “Running Lights” very simply without transistors, microcircuits and a board in a couple of tens of minutes.A very simple and uncomplicated scheme. Does not require configuration and works immediately after switching on. Alternatively, you can use