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Old dismantled copper wires can be very profitably handed over to a metal collection facility, but this requires stripping them of insulation. Doing this with a knife is long and difficult, and firing is accompanied by the release of acrid smoke. Very quickly and with minimal

Stoves such as potbelly stoves are ideal for heating a garage, shed or other technical room. Unfortunately, they are made of very thin metal, so their walls quickly burn through. It’s cheaper, easier and more reliable to weld the stove with your own

An old electric razor or clipper may have a motor failure. Most often the reason for this is wear on the brushes. Let's look at how it can be repaired at home using scrap materials and ordinary tools.

For shaped cutting of roofing materials made of sheet metal and steel sheets, a cricket drill attachment is used. These nibblers cut perfectly, but they are difficult to hold in your hands, so the cutout turns out to be deviated from the markings.

If you have to make a lot of corner parts from pipes, angles and other rolled metal, then it would be a good idea to use this jig. It will not only allow you to maintain 90°, but also eliminate distortion along other planes.

To heat your garage cheaply, you can make a stove that runs on waste. It will really help out if you have to service your car in winter. With it in the garage it will be warm, almost like in the house.

To solve many problems, you can adapt a homemade tool, with which things will go faster and with less labor. Let's look at 3 such ideas that make complex work easier.

For on-site grinding work, you can make simple, but very reliable and productive equipment for an angle grinder. It can replace an electric file and a belt grinder.

For straightening dents on a car body and assembling furniture, a spinning hammer is used that does not rebound after impact. Such hammers are also called space (or non-reactive) hammers, since they are used by astronauts for repairs. It's simple but

The compressor from the refrigerator can be used as a drive for a jigsaw. For this, it is ideally suited, as it requires minimal modifications.

Rotors from broken electric motors can be used as rollers in the manufacture of pipe benders. Their use in this capacity will significantly simplify the assembly of the machine.

If your workshop equipment is limited to just a drill and other basic power tools, you can collect a lot of accessories that will allow you to do much more with it than just drill. Let's look at how to make 5

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.

There is no more convenient and effective equipment for cleaning metal surfaces from paint and rust than a sandblasting machine. If you have a powerful compressor, you can do it yourself, investing mere pennies in comparison with

If you need to install a threaded rivet, it is not necessary to buy or borrow a rivet tool.It can be installed in just a minute using regular wrenches.

Old batteries are thrown away, sold for scrap, or dismantled for lead. At the same time, no one is interested in their plastic body, and in vain. You can make an excellent organizer out of it.

In hard-to-reach places, where you can’t even turn around on your own, working with a large tool is extremely inconvenient and unsafe. For example, working with a hacksaw. There will always be a place where you can’t get to with a regular hacksaw. It won't work even if it's small

When working with a thin cutting disc, a situation may occur where it breaks at high speeds. As a result, the nut on the spindle is clamped so tightly that it is impossible to unscrew it without breaking something. Let's look at how we can

For quick, comfortable drilling at right angles, you can make a drill stand for a drill. Many parts for this are easy to find at a metal receiving station, so the cost of a homemade product is several times lower than its factory counterpart.

If you install a clamping chuck on the emery shaft, the machine will be able to work with attachments for sandpaper with Velcro. This will allow you to sharpen knives, scissors and other tools very efficiently.The whole problem is that the thread on the emery shaft is different from

If there is no pulley of the required diameter for a belt drive, it can be turned at home, even without a lathe. At the same time, its quality and balance will be almost perfect.

When a three-phase asynchronous motor is connected to a 220V network, its power is lost; in addition, it does not start without a phase shift. To compensate for the difference between 380V and 220V, electric motors are connected using

Until recently, reliable connection of aluminum parts was possible only by argon welding. With the advent of special rods with solder, it became possible to solder them at home with a regular gas torch.

Sandblasting is the best way to remove rust and paint. The main drawback of most of these devices is flying sand. After using them, you need to clean up the scattered abrasive for a long time. In addition, the process is sawn and