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A secret lock with a hidden pedal will help protect your site from unwanted guests. If the gate is made of a metal profile like a fence, then with such locks it is even impossible to find it, since it does not stand out from the street.

Due to the advent of small-sized, cheap voltmeters in our time, it has become possible to independently manufacture various instruments, devices, probes in order to monitor different quantities. Based on such a voltmeter, you can independently

If the chimney from the stove indoors is a metal pipe, then most of the heat simply goes into the atmosphere. To delay it, you can install a radiator on the chimney. It will increase the heat transfer of the stove, thereby saving wood or coal.

The ingrained dust and dirt in the upholstery of the car cannot be pulled out with a vacuum cleaner and cannot be washed off with a dry brush. It can only be removed using specialized foaming chemicals. In order not to buy such a product, you can make a cheap analogue with your own hands.

When filling the iron with regular water, not distilled water, scale accumulates inside it. Over time, so much of it is formed that steam stops passing through the holes in the sole. In this regard, the iron needs to be cleaned.

Who among us has not dreamed of taking a metal detector with us and going to ancient ruins to look for antiques. All this is very interesting and entertaining. It’s a pity that modern Chinese metal detectors are quite expensive, despite their small

When working in a workshop, you often need to squeeze something so tightly that a regular vice is not enough for it. In this case, you should think about assembling a press vice. If you have an extra hydraulic jack, it will cost little at all,

To route exposed wires neatly, all you need is several packages of cable ties of different sizes, self-adhesive labels, and clear heat shrink tubing. You'll be surprised how much you can make from these materials.

In some cases, it is quite difficult for beginners to understand all the nuances of preparing sausages and deli meats at home. Complex recipes, unknown components and terms, and the length of the preparation process are intimidating

The service life of winter tires largely depends on its quality, but how it was run in also matters. Even very good tires can fail very quickly if handled incorrectly in the first couple of years.

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

Plastic bottles can be used to make crafts of varying degrees of usefulness and functionality. We propose to consider 5 devices that definitely work.

How do you lace your sneakers? I guess the answer is usually. I offer you 5 ways to lace up your shoes in style.

To control a multi-colored LED strip, you don’t necessarily need an expensive programmable controller or a device with a complex circuit.Just three transistors are enough to make an RGB strip shimmer in different colors. No chips

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.

Surely you have this tangle of chargers for various cell phone models in one of your closets at home. They are all working and therefore it is simply a pity to throw them away... The chargers can be put into use and turned into useful devices. Here are two

Do you want to surprise your family with a delicious dish? Then be sure to try making marbled meat slices from chicken and pig ears, which not only turns out tasty and satisfying, but also looks very beautiful on the holiday table. This is good

An ordinary screw jack can be equipped with an electric drive, and it can lift the car with the press of a button. With such equipment, car maintenance will be faster and easier.

You can put a homemade lock on the gate that will latch when it is closed. This is a fairly simple device that can be made in a couple of hours, and it will last almost forever, since there is nothing in it to break.

The construction market offers a wide variety of plasticizers that make the solution more plastic with less water included. In theory, their use should contribute to less shrinkage and increased strength, but is this true?

The idea to make glue from cottage cheese did not come to me right away. Having tried recipes with various components, I settled on the curd-ammonia composition. The main reason was the cost of the final product. And about the ease of manufacture

The most guaranteed and fastest way to propagate roses is to form air layering. It's quick and not difficult, but there are some subtleties that will help make the roots more powerful.

Once you use a spatula, an indelible layer of putty, plasters, and tile adhesive sticks to its blade. Over time, it becomes so thick that the tool simply has to be thrown away. Don't rush to do this, it will help you

According to this recipe, lard or undercuts (lard with meat streaks from the abdominal part) turns out excellent - soft, tender, simply delicious! The thing is that in ordinary salted lard you won’t find anything other than salt in the recipe, but in pickled lard