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If, when joining round pipes, the saddle is precisely cut, the welding seam will lie flat and the connection will be strong. Not everyone can make a cutout with a handy tool, and the factory model is expensive. But you can assemble such a cutter yourself.

In garden ponds with insufficient circulation, fish die due to a lack of oxygen dissolved in the water. This problem can be solved with an aerator, but, as a rule, such a device is excessively productive for small bodies of water, and besides,

To join two pieces of angle at right angles, almost all welders cut the workpieces at 45 degrees. The result is excellent, but only if the trimming is done with a miter saw. When you have to cut with a grinder, then

In the manufacture of parapets, stair railings, fences and other metal structures, various decorative strength elements are used. The use of such artistic forging products is very expensive. However, you can do

When it becomes necessary to insert a tap into a container with a narrow neck, difficulty arises because your hand cannot fit into it. As a result, it is not possible to insert the fitting from the inside. There is really no way to solve this in a normal way, but there is a small

Often, when repairing a car in a garage or disassembling household appliances, it is necessary to remove the bearing from the shaft or remove it from the seat. This can be done with an expensive factory puller or using a homemade analogue assembled from hardware.

I decided to put together a column from what I had. I went through the workshop and collected components. The speaker will serve as a phone music amplifier. She will play louder than the last one. So, it will be wireless. I found one column in the deposits. It seems from

Situations when guests spill wine on upholstered furniture happen in every family, when friends and relatives gather for another celebration. As a result, after the holiday I will have to not only completely clean the apartment, but also clean the upholstered furniture.

If you want to build a terrace using pillars made of crooked round timber, a problem arises with their installation. The irregular geometry of such supports looks very interesting and advantageous against the backdrop of a country house site, but creates

When doing carpentry you need a lot of clamps, especially when gluing. A good tool is expensive, so you can’t buy it in the required quantity. However, you can make a high-quality clamp with your own hands, and for a symbolic price

Usually, in a home workshop, tabletop machines are not of their first youth. Often they have missing or damaged nameplates with factory data or operating modes. It’s a small thing, but it spoils the appearance of the machine and makes its image unfinished. Fortunately,

Experienced gardeners have noticed that trees of the same variety and age planted in the same year begin to bear fruit at different times. Some have a harvest after 2-3 years, while others don’t even have it after 5 years. It's all about the conditions in which

For reliable protection, the cable is often pulled not in a thin corrugated pipe, but in HDPE. This allows you to protect it from almost any negative impact. The only problem is that HDPE pipes do not have wire for drawing, like in corrugated pipes, so

There is always a job for a benchtop drill press in the home workshop. The problem is that the factory model costs from 15 thousand rubles. But you can get by at much lower costs and make your own version of the machine, which in its own way

There are thousands of small household tasks that can be done faster and better if you use a few tricks. Let's look at 6 life hacks useful for the home handyman. You will definitely take at least a couple of them into service.

Varietal trees can be propagated without grafting, simply turning excess branches that should be pruned into seedlings. It is so simple and quick that from one mother tree you can make a whole young garden in a season. Try this one

In addition to its main purpose, hacksaw blades for metal can be used in other ways. Moreover, in this use case they will be no less useful. So if you have broken or dull blades lying around, you can find

A folding beach chair is usually either bulky when folded or very flimsy and uncomfortable. If you want it not to take up much space during transportation and at the same time not to tend to break during use, it is better to make it your own

There is no more convenient machine for grinding and sharpening than a belt grinder. They can bring planes to perfection. Such machines are not the cheapest, so not everyone has them in their workshop. If you are not ready to buy a grinder, then make it your own

As a rule, a coffee grinder is always in a visible place in the kitchen. It grinds not only coffee, but also various grains, cereals, cereals, and spices. As a result, over time, food residues accumulate in the coffee grinder due to moisture. In addition, from the steam, which

There may be situations in life when it is necessary to break tempered glass. Many of them are very strong, so this can only be done with a hammer or sledgehammer, but not with a stone. However, they are almost 100% likely to break from

Full-fledged good bench vices are expensive, and cheap ones are extremely unreliable. If your budget is limited and you don’t want to buy a useless vice, then you can weld them from scrap metal. This requires a minimum of materials and time.

After using soda, vinegar, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, bleach and even rust removers, the old stains in the toilet could not be removed. I accidentally came across a life hack that said that you can clean rust

Not everyone has a compost heap or worm farm in their country house to process food waste from the kitchen. In this case, in order not to accumulate them in a bucket or container, where they will emit an unpleasant odor until they end up in a landfill,