Lifehacks and useful tips. Page 40

Good advice and a useful trick on how to shorten a bolt, stud or screw. The fact is that if you cut the threads in the usual way, you will no longer be able to screw the nut back onto the threads. All this happens due to the fact that the threaded turns are wrinkled.

Let's imagine that you are faced with the task of hanging a toilet paper holder. The toilet is tiled, which makes the task much more difficult. What should I do to carefully drill a hole without breaking the tile? I'll show you the way

Anyone who has ever changed a bathroom faucet from an old one to a new one has probably encountered a problem: how to unscrew the faucet eccentric and replace it with another one. The matter is certainly not tricky, take it and twist it, but with the wrong approach, especially

Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a kitchen sink without a convenient, modern faucet. This device allows you to adjust the temperature of the water in the tap to the desired value. Although lever-type faucets are becoming popular, many people use

Where the holes in the slate come from, when there are no trees or tall buildings nearby from which something could fall, remains a mystery to me personally. And yet it is a fact. Nowadays there are many varieties of different adhesives for sale.

A friend asked me to sharpen a knife that had been used in the kitchen for 3 years for a variety of tasks: chopping frozen meat and poultry bones. The blade made of steel 95X18 did not withstand the tests, and several chips appeared on the cutting edge, and the first 50 mm from

Hi all! I decided to show a test of a carbide drill, which can be purchased for about $1. It is popularly known as a “feather” (feather drill) and was originally intended for drilling tiles and tiles. In practice already

Aphids are a headache for many summer residents. And not only summer residents, our indoor “green pets” can suffer the same misfortune: just open a window or window in the summer. In most cases, the root cause of aphids is domestic

Hollow interior doors require more careful handling, due to their lightweight design, compared to solid ones. Well, if you didn’t protect such a door from impact, say, when moving furniture, then a good one will certainly appear in it.

If you decide to repair broken headphones, a Bluetooth headset, or any other device that has a thin and small microcircuit, you will need a soldering iron with a thin tip. But sometimes it happens that it is this very sting, due to

How to drill a hardened file into a light one? A very simple method that will be useful to you in life. A little trick of using a tool for other purposes or not quite for its intended purpose. A short master class on drilling hardened steel.

An incredibly simple tip, thanks to which your meat grinder will serve for a very long time without sharpening the knives. It is enough to follow the simplest rule when reassembling the meat grinder, which will save the cutting edges of the knives from becoming dull.

In our time of modern, multi-blade, electric and even electronic (smart) razors, the fashion for such a tool as a straight razor is returning. After purchasing it, for those who want to start using this wonderful tool for the first time

Polycarbonate, as a material for a greenhouse, is undoubtedly the best option.Lightweight, holds heat well and is relatively inexpensive. In any case, cheaper than glass. But polycarbonate has one significant and significant disadvantage: it is very fragile

Using the method we will discuss, you can remove dents not only on ordinary untreated wood, but also on varnished furniture, parquet, etc. In general, the method is widely applicable to almost any wooden surface, which is good news.

Every person more than once in his life has encountered such a nuisance as metal corrosion, or, more simply put, rust. There are many ways to combat this scourge, but not all of them are quite effective. Having tried several of the methods and

The most popular method of sharpening a knife at home is sharpening on a whetstone. Everyone undoubtedly knows this method, but most people still do not know how to do it correctly. We will figure out how to do it correctly without extra effort and without

Often, most people are afraid to unscrew the nut of the oblique strainer. The fact is that such a filter is usually located immediately after the tap on the riser, and this place is very important. Since a mistake can lead to

The simplest way to increase the signal level of your cell phone in a few minutes.You will need absolutely nothing other than a piece of wire of a certain length. This method will definitely help in difficult life situations.

There is a great need to drill a hole of small diameter, for example, in a circuit board for radio elements or somewhere else. A screwdriver is usually used for this. And if you decide to clamp a thin drill into its chuck, then it’s unlikely

Bitumen stains on a car's paintwork are a real problem that needs to be dealt with in a timely manner. The body becomes especially actively contaminated with resin with the onset of warm weather, when road workers begin their favorite “pothole repair”. Fine

Almost everyone has the most common soldering iron with a copper tip. This simple and useful tool is needed not only by specialists involved in radio electronics. It is also often needed on the farm, for example, to solder two wires or

This is not only the best, but also the easiest way to remove super glue from almost any surface. This method can remove not only fresh, fresh dried drops, but also adhesive residues that are several days old.

The problem of licked edges of a screw for a Phillips screwdriver has long been known to everyone. There are few solutions to how to get out of such a situation and remove a broken screw.I will only offer you seven that I personally had to use. Unfortunately not