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A dull knife not only makes cooking much more difficult, but also increases the risk of injury. It has to be pressed with great effort, vegetables slip out of wet hands, and the blade gets into soft tissue. In implementation there is

Useful ideas and tools for the amateur carpenter or home craftsman. Without doing carpentry professionally, it is completely unprofitable to buy a special tool for this. However, it is quite possible to work accurately and comfortably if

Pleasant-tasting and refreshing lightly salted cucumbers are always popular at the beginning of the summer season. There are several culinary secrets to make cucumbers crispy. For the recipe, be sure to use freshly picked fruits or cucumbers that

Every housewife knows how difficult it is to clean dishes from dried and burnt fat, especially if they have not been washed regularly and dirty stains have taken a lot of time. Store-bought products are not always effective, but you can make your own

It happens that excellent, high-quality and expensive wallpaper suddenly begins to deform at the joints. Sometimes they wrinkle in the corners. There are many reasons for this...

When cutting sheet material, it is very important to apply even markings. For this purpose, a special tool is used - a marking thicknesser. It will be useful for roofers, carpenters, joiners, drywallers and other craftsmen. Reismus has a very

There are many different tips on this topic on the Internet, some of them are quite effective, others make you smile with their naivety. But all methods require long-term cooking of dishes in a large container - the kitchen is filled with a very unpleasant smell,

A trimmer is a special tool. Its purpose is to control weeds, bush stems and lawn grass in places that lawn mowers cannot reach. Is it possible to drill holes in various materials with a brush cutter? Today we will look at one of

For ease of use, some tools need to be magnetized.These are primarily screwdrivers used for tightening small screws. It also happens the other way around, when it is better to demagnetize the tool so that metal shavings do not stick to it.

Not even all experienced housewives know how to quickly chop onions correctly. In addition to making your eyes water while slicing, the pieces turn out uneven, and at the end of the job there is a lot of vegetable waste left behind. There are several secrets that will help solve everything

Positioning the workpiece relative to the tool, in our case, a drill, is a responsible and difficult operation. To make it easier and more precise, you can assemble a homemade laser pointer based on two linear lasers

You can cut a circle in sheet metal using metal scissors, making precise cutting, and having extraordinary skills. You cannot do without additional processing of the edges. You can also use a hand tool – the HC2 EV Malco drill attachment

Sooner or later, depending on the quality (hardness) of the water in the water supply system, the shower head of a bathtub or shower stall may become clogged. Water begins to flow outward through some holes, while through others it stops flowing altogether or only drips.

Nowadays many acoustic speakers are sold that have a card reader.You can install a memory card or USB flash drive. This is of course great, but what if someone wants to listen to music from their phone? You need to pull out the card and insert it into

The engine from a brush cutter is an excellent power unit for dozens of useful homemade products. It is used to make mini motor cultivators, boat engines, snowmobiles and even sprayers for gardening and garden plants. Let's consider the manufacturing option

A workbench without a vice is nothing more than just a table. A carpenter's vice is a necessary tool for every craftsman. They provide reliable fixation of wooden and metal parts during processing. The design is based on

Physics is an exact science with its own laws, which can be demonstrated through spectacular experiments. Let's look at 6 interesting experiments. 1. Generating electricity from temperature differences...

This need quite often arises when you need to drill a hole in a place that is difficult or impossible to get to with a conventional drill. If you install a drill chuck on an angle grinder, then thanks to the angle gear, you can

If there is no DVB-T2 television signal of sufficient strength, it becomes necessary to use an antenna with an amplifier.Such equipment can be easily assembled with your own hands from purchased parts, the cost of purchasing which will be about 1 dollar.

A conventional turnkey jaw chuck on drills and screwdrivers often begins to jam after prolonged use. It becomes more difficult to tighten and release the drill bit, which is caused by corrosion of the internal clamping mechanism and its subsequent

The TAP subscriber splitter is an installation element used to create branches from one TV trunk to several consumers, while maintaining a pass-through signal. With its help, the television signal from the main cable is divided between

A frying pan is used more often and more intensively than other utensils for cooking. It mainly fries foods at high temperatures. Therefore, even with the most careful handling of these kitchen utensils and constant washing after each

Not every car owner or master has the opportunity to have a spacious garage or workshop and store all the tools and small spare parts in it, and this causes a lot of inconvenience. Sometimes the rooms are so small that it is impossible to place ordinary

When the land is not taken care of, all kinds of weeds, shrubs and trees grow wildly on it.Moreover, even cultivated plants begin to run wild - one can no longer expect any benefit from them, but they create many problems. Removing such “game” manually