Crafts. Page 28

To store and carry hand tools, you can make a box from a sewer pipe, and if you try, the homemade product will look no worse than an expensive factory case. This box is moderately spacious, so after filling

A file, especially an old Soviet one, is made of hard steel, so if you turn it into an excellent cutter, the blade will hold an edge well. The whole problem is that, due to its hardness, the file is difficult to process, so if not

When it is necessary to make an element with an angle of 45 degrees from a profile pipe, then usually two blanks are butted at 22.5 degrees, after which they are welded together. This is a very simple and fast method, but not the most beautiful. In the case when it is necessary

By default, a hammer drill is a purely repair tool for drilling in impact mode, knocking out niches, grooves in walls and various dismantling works. However, its functionality is much wider; you just need to install the correct equipment, which

The bolt can be used not only as a fastening element, but also as a blank for the manufacture of various tools needed in the workshop. Let's consider 4 options for such homemade products.

When working with many soft sheet materials, trimming is usually done with a straight edge knife. Without proper skill, such a cut turns out to be curved, since the blade does not enter the material at a right angle. As a consequence, at the end

Winter this year does not particularly please us with frosty days. Especially in the southern regions. Slush and dirt on roads and sidewalks have not disappeared this year since the beginning of autumn. After a walk, or coming home from work, in warm weather, the shoes are covered

With a limited budget, balusters for balcony partitions and stair railings are usually made from profile pipes without the use of decorative forged elements. The result is a practical, but not the most beautiful design. To her

When you burn branches and leaves cut from the garden after a fire, a burnt gray spot remains on the area, on which nothing grows for a long time. Such bald spots look unsightly, so it is better to build a fire not on the ground, but in a portable one.

If you want to decorate the knife blade yourself with an inscription, pattern or small design, it is best to do this using the electrochemical method. It gives a greater guarantee of obtaining the desired result than mechanical engraving by an inexperienced master.

When repairing various power tools, such as an angle grinder, drill, screwdriver, hammer drill or jigsaw, it becomes necessary to change the bearing on the armature. Often he gets stuck and doesn’t want to act. In order not to bend anything, it is better

Having a home pool or garden pond, periodically there is a need to drain water from them, which requires a high-performance pump. If you wish and have time, you can do it yourself. Moreover, the homemade pump pumps water very

Tabletop metal shears are much more powerful than hand tools. They are quite capable of cutting 2 mm thick sheet steel, wire and thin reinforcement. Lever scissors of the lowest quality cost from $100, but a good tool costs several times more

Wood is a very beautiful and useful material for humans. The more wood products, the better for people. You can make them yourself and, if you are smart, they will also become a decoration in every home or apartment.

Bending reinforcement using means not intended for this purpose is physically difficult, time-consuming, inaccurate and unsafe. If you have some metalworking skills, you can make a modified reinforcement bender designed for bending any

Refrigerators of various designs are used to equip the distiller. The most convenient are flow-through devices that allow efficient condensation of steam into liquid in a small volume. Let's analyze the design of an inexpensive homemade

Today I received an order from my mother: to make a trough for chopping cabbage. My parents used to have, I remember, a special trough for this, about two meters long. As soon as the frosts began, the cabbage was cut and the rubles were cut into small crumbs for several hours in a row,

Typically, diamond-type screw jacks are used on passenger cars. Their main purpose is to lift the car to change a wheel. But based on them, you can independently make very powerful vices with high compression force.

In the household, this traditional material is used for fencing, erecting fences, making cages, enclosures, sieves for sifting bulk materials, etc. To reduce costs, instead of buying ready-made Chainlink mesh, you can

Replacing the oil filter is often accompanied by difficulty in removing it. It is extremely difficult to unscrew it only by hand. When faced with this problem, you can very quickly make a simple puller that allows you to easily unscrew stuck filters.

We used to build play structures out of chairs, pillows and blankets. We had our own secret hiding places. Today we have grown up, but we have our own children. So why not help them and build a real children's house? Perhaps this is at least

Even if you have the meager set of simple tools, with some persistence you can remove the pulley pressed onto the electric motor shaft and replace it with a drill chuck. The result is a tool similar to a drill press or drill.

A belt sanding machine can be used for sharpening knives, axes, chisels, sharpening blades, turning workpieces, removing rust and solving dozens of other problems. This is an indispensable equipment, but for a small workshop

There are many design options for manual pipe benders, but the most productive are lever devices. Unlike screw ones, they bend workpieces instantly, although they require some physical effort. Make a bending machine