Do it yourself - with your own hands. Page 56

When laying metal pipelines and welding metal structures, complex connections must be made. Situations of welding three profiles in different planes are common, for example, when creating shelving. When installing heating systems

To turn beautiful handles for tools, chair legs, balusters for railings and other wooden products, a homemade lathe is enough. The cost of its production when purchasing materials from a metal receiving facility will be very low. IN

For the doors of outbuildings in a country house or farmstead, it is not necessary to spend money and buy factory-made locking products. If you have basic plumbing skills, you can make them yourself from waste materials and almost without spending money.

Not every carpenter has all the necessary tools.So many problems have to be solved by cunning, adapting other machines for this. Let's look at a couple of carpentry hacks that work great.

Slate is not only a material used for its intended purpose. This material is excellent for building fences. The main advantage is that slate has good resistance to cold, deformation, corrosion, and

Typically, the simplest converter from 12 to 220 V is built on one transistor and a transformer with a three-terminal primary winding. By positive feedback, the generator on the transistor is excited and generation occurs. From the secondary winding

To process the edges of wooden blanks or insert various furniture fittings, you need a router. There is no point in buying it for those who use this tool occasionally. For amateurs, a homemade router is better suited. It's easy to

Any building, and especially residential buildings, needs a blind area. It is necessary to prevent rain or water draining from the roof from penetrating under the building and harming the foundation. This work is not technologically complex, so it is

When making structures from profile pipes, they often have to be connected at different angles.Cutting by eye leads to large errors and the joints turn out flimsy and unsightly. Below is a very simple markup method:

There are quite a few recipes for pickling lightly salted cucumbers, and sometimes choosing the perfect one is incredibly difficult. If you want cucumbers to quickly (literally in a couple of hours) become lightly salted, while still being aromatic and crispy, then feel free to

Many car enthusiasts use special polishes to care for the instrument panel and plastic door cards. They are able to perfectly clean deep pores and create an antistatic layer on the surface that prevents dust from sticking. At

In a home workshop there is always a use for a spot welding machine, but the simplest of them in a store costs from several thousand rubles. If you remove a transformer from an old microwave oven, you can make such a device yourself using

A pole pruner may be needed to trim top branches or harvest the tops of trees. A tool like this on a long shaft can cost $100 or more. So, to save money, it is better to do it yourself by repurposing an old pruner.

In the event of a rodent infestation, conventional spring mousetraps cannot cope, since they need to be recharged after each operation.Few people will wake up every couple of hours to do this. In such cases, a homemade trap will be more effective.

Capacitive batteries for electric bicycles or electric motorcycles are very expensive, so it is cheaper to make them yourself by connecting 18650 batteries together. But to ensure that such an assembly does not fail, jumpers must be welded to the batteries. This is done

Dust accumulates in the seams of paving slabs, from which weeds then grow. They not only spoil the appearance of the paths, but also destroy them. Plant roots undermine the tiles, sometimes even causing them to crack. To avoid this, with

When installing fences, gates or gates, you want to highlight the outer posts by decorating them with a knob. This can be done in different ways. We offer a technology for creating a top on the edge of a pillar from a 100 mm profile pipe by bending it.

Blueberries and lingonberries can be collected very quickly if you tear them not with your hands, but using a special food processor and comb. Similar devices are sold, but they are made of hard steel, so they crush the berries. The proposed homemade device

There are dozens of ways to make fire using improvised means, most of which require a lot of time, effort and concentration.You can even start a fire using a slightly modified empty tin can. After completion it turns into

Elements twisted into a spiral from a steel strip serve both as part of the power structure of window and door grilles and as a decorative decoration. Making them using universal tools requires two people and frequent heating.

It’s impossible to pick cherries from the thin upper branches with your hands, but that’s where the berries are the best. You can only reach them with a special device. It won't be difficult to do it.

It happens that just before fishing it turns out that some equipment is missing. Now I will tell you what to do if you suddenly find that you are missing a sliding feeder. Straighten the wire, holding one end in a drill chuck or

To install a fence or trellis under grapes, posts are required. The cheapest and most durable solution would be concrete ones, but they don’t cost a penny. If you want to save money, then make them yourself.

Straight arms and a little intelligence allow you to invent a variety of tools and devices to improve your life. We offer 3 ready-made ideas that are easy to implement.At least one of them may be useful to you in the near future.