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If, when soldering the pipeline, there were not enough couplings with external threads, you can cut it directly on polypropylene. This method is not suitable for a house or apartment, but if you are making an irrigation system for a garden or lawn, then the method is completely justified.

If you need to reliably and hermetically weld pipes of different diameters, you can use the old proven method by narrowing the end of the larger one. The resulting connection will not only be reliable, but also beautiful.

Hello! Today I will show you how to make a bar stool without nails or glue. We will make all connections using plastic bottles. Plastic bottles can be used as heat shrink. If you heat them up, they will shrink in size and

For a small workshop, a factory belt sander is too bulky. Instead, it is better to get a homemade attachment for an angle grinder, with which you can perform the same types of work.

To organize an irrigation system, you may need a couple of dozen sprayers. In order not to buy, you can make them yourself.

In order for the cut sewer pipe to fit into the socket, it must be chamfered. As a result, preparing each trim takes time. If you make a pipe cutter of this design, then each piece will immediately have a chamfer.

When storing threads in a box, they constantly unwind and get tangled. As a result, it takes a long time to untie the knots. If you switch to storing threads in a bottle, you won’t have any more problems with them.

If it is necessary to prepare wooden round dowels, you need to prepare a special round pin machine for this. It can be made from ordinary steel strip.

When repairing flywheels, pumps, drive pulleys and other mechanisms, it may be necessary to remove a pressed-in bearing that cannot be reached with any hand tool. A homemade puller will help you get out of this difficulty.

A quality large roughing cutter for wood turning can easily cost $50 or more. Having no desire to buy this tool for that kind of money, you can make it yourself.

After major holidays, wine corks remain. Nobody needs them at all, so they go in the trash. But in vain. Cork corks are an excellent material that allows you to create very beautiful non-trivial

Old pliers with a broken handle can be converted into a hole punch for punching tin and thin sheet aluminum. This tool is useful when installing blind rivets and performing spot welding.

When performing welding work, it may be necessary to fill a fairly wide seam. For a non-professional welder, this is an almost impossible task. In fact, everything is not so difficult if you use one trick.

For those who do not have a workshop and have to work directly in the apartment, an important parameter when choosing electrical equipment is its noise level. Finding such a tool is not so easy, but much of what you need can be done with your own hands, to

When pulling out potatoes with a walk-behind tractor, it is optimal to use a potato digger with a rumble. She puts all the tubers on top, so when collecting them you don’t need to dig into the soil with your hands. You can make a very simple digger with a rumble yourself.

Smooth plastic bottles are the best to unravel into ribbons, but with curly ones, difficulties arise. To avoid this, they can be straightened, removing all the relief. To do this you need to make one simple device.

Those who like to make fun of their friends will appreciate the idea of ​​a comic ax of a non-standard shape, in which the blade and butt are swapped. Despite its unusual nature, it is quite functional and can be used for its main purpose.

Wood processing is a multifaceted job. Each stage has its own nuances. And if to harvest the wood directly you need machines, chainsaws, and transporters, then to dismantle solid wood boards you cannot do without a sawmill. Everyone is doing this

Right in the middle of summer cottages you can find old, de-energized concrete power line poles, which energy companies have no intention of removing. In this case, all worries about their removal fall on the shoulders of the site owners. Mainly the problem

To reduce the cost of construction, doors for a utility room or bathhouse can be made with your own hands. To save even more, this can be made from old previously used boards.

Standard steel vise jaws leave deep dents on round and profile wooden workpieces, so you have to wrap them with rubber every time, which is inconvenient. If you have a router, you can make aluminum prismatic linings on

The circular disk is made of excellent steel, so you can cut a small, fully functional camping hatchet out of it. It will come in handy when fishing, on a picnic, and will also help out at home, for example, when cutting up chicken. The cost of a used saw blade is

Wing nuts made of non-ferrous metals are very rare, and you can’t buy ordinary steel ones in every store. If you can’t get nuts of the right size, you can simply cast them from aluminum. It's not difficult at all, you don't even need to cut into them

If you don’t have a garden auger, you don’t have to go to a hardware store to buy one; you can weld this tool yourself. To do this, all you need is an old circular blade and a couple of worn-out reciprocating saw blades.