Do it yourself - with your own hands. Page 52

A home handyman may need round wooden sticks for his work. Finding ready-made ones for sale is problematic, and not everyone has a lathe. Let's share a simple way to make pegs from improvised materials. The main material will be

Everyone thinks cable ties are disposable. This was originally intended, but they can be easily unzipped without cutting and then reused many times. To do this, you just need a regular safety pin (or any sewing

Sometimes you need to fasten steel cables to a wall or ceiling, but there are no special fasteners at hand. For a home craftsman, this is not a problem; using available materials and ingenuity, the cables are easily attached exactly where necessary.

It is quite difficult for a novice welder to simultaneously monitor the correct fixation of the parts to be joined and the start of the welding process. Usually, when the electrode touches the welding site, the fixation is broken. To make the welding process easier, you can do

Many people know that potatoes are used to prepare many delicious and healthy dishes. Let's talk about one of them today. It will take very little time and a small set of ingredients to prepare it. But you will get something wonderful

Power tools are often not suitable for fine woodworking. It removes too much wood at once and is difficult to control. However, if you make such a mini router, you will be able to accurately and efficiently even engrave on

Typically, sealed bearings are simply replaced with new ones, without lubrication or repair. But why buy a new bearing if the old one is fully functional: it has no obvious rolling motion, but simply began to creak or whistle due to the drying out of the lubricant inside the cage.

Amateur carpenters often experience an acute shortage of good lumber from deciduous trees. The products on sale are mainly coniferous boards and bars. If you require a more noble tree, you can make a simple

Woodworking is a great activity that can be just a hobby for a pleasant pastime or a craft that brings not only positive emotions, but also income. In any case, a true master must have

Weeds appear in the cracks between paving slabs. They not only spoil the appearance of the paths, but also destroy them. The roots of plants undermine the tiles, as a result of which they begin to protrude upward, sometimes even cracking. In this regard, with

Making an even cut with a hand-held circular saw is not so easy. Due to the heterogeneity of the wood and for other reasons, the saw always tends to move to the side. Of course, you can buy a guide bar in a store, but a factory branded product is priced

Beautiful food can't only be found in a restaurant. Desire and a little imagination will give the dish a completely different look. I share my secrets to increase your appetite and mood.

You can, of course, buy a factory clamp, but you need to pay money for it. But such a device, no worse than the factory one in terms of functionality, can be made by yourself without special training and at a meager cost.

An ordinary concrete garden path is reliable and moderately expensive, unlike paving slabs or stone. However, it does not look so impressive.An alternative in this case could be a concrete path imitating stone.

To clean small steel parts from rust, you can make a simple tumbling chamber. In it they will be mixed with sand, which will effectively remove the corrosive layer. This device can be made easily, literally in 5 minutes.

Soldering SMD components with a conventional soldering iron is a very complex process. If you have a similar job to do, but you don’t have a commercial heat gun, then make it yourself. To do this, you just need to make a small upgrade to your soldering iron.

A cordless screwdriver is a useful tool that can greatly simplify your work. But if you know certain tricks, then working with a screwdriver will be easier and simpler.

You can make a wonderful handmade chair from unnecessary boards, logs and old tires; all you need is desire and a set of tools. This chair will look great both in the backyard and in the garden. And thanks to shock-absorbing

Clamps are always useful for tightening hoses, but you don’t always have the right one at hand. In such a situation, clamps can be made independently using wire and simple tools without using a clamp.

I decided to make a Powerbank and not just any, but a large one. There are a lot of these in stores. It won’t be difficult to assemble one like this yourself. I have an assembly of batteries connected in parallel with 18650. The total capacity of the batteries is 20000 mAh. I have already

In a home workshop you have to process large ceramic tiles, long metal pieces, lumber, which without reliable fixation are not only difficult, but also dangerous to work with. You can make a universal clamp without a special

An interesting device is made in the form of a simple discrete regulator and is designed for a two-stage increase in electrical power supplied to a light bulb or other load from a direct current source. At the moment of applying voltage

If you put sun-dried tomatoes in bags and put them in the freezer, then the preparations will be stored for about a year. Moreover, due to their size, they take up extremely little space. Recently, it has become very popular to dry tomatoes and season them

In the workshop there are a lot of useful little things scattered everywhere. As a result, you have to search for them for a long time. It is much more convenient to store such little things in one place. We offer a folding box design that is easy to make with your own hands.