Workshop

To get powerful waterproof glue, we need any metal jar. Add 3 tablespoons of water to it and heat to a boil. You can also simply pour ready-made boiling water into a jar. Next, add 10 grams to boiling water.

Here are tips that do not require professional knowledge and skills, but require ingenuity and a desire to do something with your own hands. For example, please a child with a self-propelled machine, and share the experience of opening cans with the hostess.

How to stud rubber using bolts and nuts. We make blind holes in the tread blocks (blocks) to a given depth. We clamp the bolt in the drill chuck and screw the heads into the holes. We put washers on the bolts and tighten the nuts with a wrench.

As the basis of the tool box, we will take a PVC pipe with a diameter of 89 mm and a length of 32 cm. We draw a generatrix on its side surface.On a sheet of A4 paper, measure 13 cm along the long side. Apply the marked sheet to the generatrix on

We select 2 old gears suitable in size and number of teeth and put them in order, removing rust and various deposits. We carefully weld the bearing along the outer ring to the central hole of one gear without overheating.

Repairing a through hole in plastic. We place a piece of adhesive aluminum foil on the front side of the perforation, and fill the defect with liquid plastic on the back side, melting part of the plastic clamp.

On the front side of the plastic part, cover the through hole with a piece of aluminum foil, the dimensions of which are obviously larger than the through hole formed. We fix the foil on the hole with adhesive tape.

Once, while living in a country house, I needed to silver-plate a wire for a high-quality inductor, but the purchased distilled water turned out to be worthless: immediately when silver nitrate was dissolved in it, the solution became cloudy. Distilled

A bench vise is considered a stationary tool. But sometimes moving it makes the work easier and easier. Any person can make a mobile vice without loss or limitation of functionality, and this does not require expensive materials and

An electric engraver bought in a store at an average price usually comes with standard assembly and accessories; a housing with a motor, a collet or jaw chuck, and an AC power supply that matches the power consumption of the motor.

In order to make a round hole in a wall made of wooden boards or drywall, you will need a drill, a pen, or a crown. If for small holes a drill or a pen is sufficient, then for large diameter holes you will need

This transformation of the grinder allows it to be equipped with the functions of a portable circular saw with an adjustable depth of cut depending on the thickness of the wooden workpieces. Almost any adult who knows how to do this can cope with such work.

Hardened steel is characterized by great strength and hardness, so its machining will require tools that are noticeably superior to this metal in terms of the specified characteristics. Only drills made of hard alloys are suitable,

Place crushed brittle plastic in a glass jar and fill it with xylene-based solvent No. 2K so that it completely covers the crushed plastic. Close the jar with a lid and leave for a day. Within 24 hours, the plastic fragments are completely

To ensure an accurate and high-quality connection by cutting in two pipes of the same diameter at an angle of 90 degrees, it is necessary to give the edge of the cutting-in pipe one specific configuration and, using it, establish the shape of the hole in the pipe into which

If you drill a through hole in the center of the pliers in front of the hinge, then with its help it will be easy and convenient to cut rod parts such as nails, rods, knitting needles, etc., the diameter of which does not exceed the diameter of the hole drilled in the pliers

Quite often, in a home workshop or workplace there are not the necessary materials or tools to perform a particular job, repair damage, make the right part, or improve the properties of certain substances. But after looking at

When working with an angle grinder, in some cases the disc gets bitten, causing it to fly apart and mechanically clamp the nut very tightly. After which it is almost impossible to unscrew it with a regular key. Option with clamping the grinder in a vice, using

Throttle, clutch or brake cable lugs on vehicles may crack, become out of shape and pop out of their sockets when used for long periods of time or when excessive load is applied. Often the cable breaks under the boss or

Not every chainsaw comes with a protective bar cover. Whether it's a gasoline or cordless tool. And this case is an extremely necessary thing. Primarily to protect other objects that the saw may come into contact with during

In order not to waste money on buying iron scissors in a store, you can make them yourself from two used ball bearings and a piece of an old channel. This does not require any theoretical knowledge or professional skills.

To successfully drill a hole with a diameter of 2 mm in the hardened and durable tool steel from which files are made, the first drill of the specified diameter will not work. The files are made from unalloyed tempered

One of the common methods of transmitting force in the form of torque from the drive shaft to the pulley is using a keyed connection. If the pulley is machined, then it is necessary to cut a keyway inside

From the simplest and most worn-out items and materials, you can make original and useful life hacks for all occasions. How to cut round bars at 45 degrees. Use a grinder to cut the crosspiece crosswise along the mating lines. In the center