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Imagine that you are faced with a specific task: to make a blind hole in a tree for a bearing. To press it in, you need a certain diameter of the cutter; it is not a fact that a tool of this size will be in the store. Therefore, it is easier and cheaper to do

Creative people are characterized by individuality. A bright, memorable image, like the cutting of a precious stone, can highlight the artist’s talent and make him recognizable among his admirers. Today we will talk about unusual painting technology

Usually, unnecessary or excess plantings are removed manually, using common means (shovel, hoe, ketmen, etc.), with a lot of physical effort and time. At the same time, you can make a homemade uprooter to remove small

I have a folding knife with a ceramic blade. He helped me out more than once on trips to the country and on picnics.Impeccable blade sharpness that does not require sharpening, hygiene and lightness. In general, I became attached to him. After all, it happens that with some

Hi all! I am retired and love to tinker in my home workshop. I assemble various devices with my own hands, implement life hacks, and sometimes experiment. Like any home craftsman, I never throw away used hardware -

Electricity creates comfort, but becomes dangerous if there is a power failure. A short circuit of potentials sharply increases the current beyond the permissible value. The wires overheat, which can lead to a fire. Decline

How to make a square hole in any workpiece? Anyone can drill a round hole, but sometimes you need to make a square hole. I needed to make a large square hole in a round piece to

Have pests, mice and rats multiplied in your personal home or garden? It's time to declare war on them! Of course, the easiest way is to use poison, but rodents quickly get used to it, and in addition there is a danger of poisoning pets and birds. Spring

Many people have unnecessary old chainsaw chains lying around, from which they can make a kind of milling cutter attachment for an angle grinder for processing wood, which is needed on the farm.

There was a need to process a large piece of wood, for example, to create a sculpture for the garden or a chair from a stump. With a regular chisel, all this will take months to do. A branded instrument is not cheap, you have to go somewhere and buy it. After

Small cracks in wood are not dangerous and are natural. It’s bad when the defect reaches a width of 3-5 mm and spreads in length over the entire surface. Moisture that gets into the crack leads to wood rotting. The bark beetles that have settled there will undermine it from the inside.

A cordless angle grinder is a rather specific tool, and it is not advisable to purchase it without a specific amount of work (that is, for amateur purposes). However, if you have a regular battery-powered screwdriver and an old grinder,

The need to cut internal threads in the holes of wooden parts may arise when performing various types of work, for example: when assembling furniture; when constructing shelves or stands in utility rooms or garages; during assembly

Sometimes the handle linings of knives break off, especially if they are made of plastic. It’s a pity to throw away a knife plate, especially when the blade can still serve for a long time. First, we will discuss two ideas for restoring a knife handle, and then

Mice and rats accompany humans everywhere.They destroy food and crops in dachas and fields, carry viruses of severe infections and even gnaw signal wires in devices.

The start of the next cycling season is just around the corner, and speaking of the proverb about the sleigh and the cart, it would be a good idea to prepare your bike for it now. Not every locality has a bicycle service, where “experienced” (sometimes) masters, for a “symbolic”

A hair dryer breaking down is quite a rare case, since there is nothing special to break; it consists of a plastic case, a motor with a propeller, a heating element made of a nichrome spiral, and a switch. Well, a couple of screws. And they change the hair dryer by buying a new one,

The familiar steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Pure iron is malleable and soft, its scope of application is limited. A variety of rolled steel and steel products vary significantly in hardness and ductility with different heat treatments...

Sometimes, in a country house, garage or home, it is necessary to weld two pipes so that the end part of one fits tightly, without gaps, to the cylindrical generatrix of the other. Only in this case the connection by welding or soldering will be strong and

There are many descriptions of how to make your own knife sharpening device. Most of the proposed designs, in my opinion, are too large or difficult to replicate. Of course, you can buy the finished product at

For the strength of the connection and long service life of wooden products, such as chairs, tables, cabinets, shelves and others, tenons are used as fasteners, reliably connecting the bars to each other through holes called sockets. Making a nest for spikes

Small 2-stroke single-cylinder engines of low power are widely used in everyday life. They are used on chainsaws and motor mowers, in motorized ice drills and gas-electric units. And also in other models of equipment.

The need for a simple and reliable home hiding place is obvious. It's easy to make a false bottom in a desk drawer yourself. This is a very effective hiding place.

The combat bayonet for the legendary AK-74 entered service in the 60s of the last century and since then has remained a reliable soldier’s assistant not only in the Russian army. At the same time, not everyone, even those who served and went on guard, know what