Crafts. Page 29

Metal tweezers are a fairly common tool. It is especially necessary when repairing something small, for example, when soldering microcircuits, or repairing mechanical watches. They are very convenient for gripping small screws and other small parts.

When reinforcing foundations or laying walls, it is necessary to lay reinforcement, which must first be bent. This can be done quickly and smoothly only on a bending machine. This is a simple and compact device that you can make yourself.

Aluminum is a fairly low-melting metal from which the necessary parts can be successfully cast at home. Let's look at casting technology using the example of manufacturing a car spacer for the A-pillar.

It is not very easy to bend profile pipes without deforming the cross section.To do this, you need special pipe benders, which are expensive and quite bulky. But such a device can be made with your own hands without much expense, if

Hello, today we’ll talk about distillation. This is distillation, the evaporation of a liquid followed by cooling and condensation of vapors. Accordingly, the product is the distillate or residue.

What do a useless pump have in common with a perfectly working grinder? It seems nothing: the first one is only good as scrap metal, and the second one will serve its intended purpose for a long time. But let's not rush - this unit can become the basis for manufacturing

Not every drill takes hardened and hard steel. In this regard, if it is necessary to drill a bearing race, knife blade or other hardened products, difficulties arise. To solve them, you can make a homemade drill that can cope with

For many decades now, pet owners have been unwitting witnesses to the uncompromising war between their pets and Christmas trees. New Year's beauties attract cats like a magnet - this thing reminds them of a scratching post or a playground

You will have to pay a lot of money for a factory new press. But you can make it yourself using a jack.This will not require anything scarce or expensive, except perhaps some time and hard work.

For the simplest lathe in the store you will have to pay several thousand rubles. But it can be made from a drill without much expense, and you don’t have to be a highly qualified specialist to do this.

Most amateur craftsmen do not have a miter saw, so they cut the profile pipe using a grinder. This is an imprecise tool and often produces uneven cuts, especially if there is no angle available to mark the cut line.

To give an untreated board a perfectly smooth surface, sanding is required. If you do this with regular sandpaper or a hand sander, the surface will be smooth, but not even. To simultaneously achieve the correct plane and remove

We suggest making a Christmas tree toy in the shape of a unicorn together with your children. Everyone knows that the fashion for these fairy-tale creatures has been going on for years and all the girls adore these toys. It's time to please your little ones with a wonderful unicorn toy,

It is not necessary to buy a factory-made milling cutter if there is a need for such a device, because it costs a lot of money.You can make it yourself from a household drill and the simplest materials.

The very first thought when a shovel handle cracks is to replace it. This is the ideal solution, but due to laziness or attachment to the old cutting, it can be reliably repaired in 5 minutes. If there are remains of water plastic pipes, do not even

In the design of this grinding machine, an important place is given to rollers or rollers. The drive roller sets the abrasive belt in motion, the tension roller picks up the slack, the driven rollers hold and impart uniform tension to the abrasive belt.

Hypertensive patients and elderly people suffer from periodic increases in blood pressure. This is accompanied by poor health, and in severe cases can lead to extremely undesirable consequences, including a heart attack. To avoid this,

If you are going to work with bolts that have a semicircular head and a square head, then the hole on the side of such fasteners should be square to prevent it from turning. Bolts of this configuration are most often used in construction

Since the blades of modern kitchen knives are made from special grades of steel, which are usually subjected to thermomechanical treatment, they last a long time without losing their strength and cutting qualities. Of course, that's why they

When making furniture, for example, a dining table, it is necessary to choose a method for connecting the drawer (plank frame) with the legs. Let's consider one of the simple but reliable options on how to do this without using additional fastening

Let's imagine you decided to save money on repairs and decided to do it yourself. Everything is clear with painting and priming the damaged coating, but what to do with dents? Of course, you don’t have a specialized tool. Here to help you

I wanted to use a freon cylinder lying idle. All kinds of lamps and urns are not needed. So I decided to implement an idea that I had been thinking about. I decided to assemble a smokehouse. You can smoke both meat and fish. The cylinder does not take up much space. Its price

Surely many who have ever tried to make a prefabricated wooden frame remember how difficult it is to fit all four corner joints exactly. Under normal conditions, without specialized tools, even after manual adjustment, gaps remain,

Plastic bottle caps can be an excellent raw material for making a cutting board. They are safe for human health because they are made of HDPE plastic, i.e. high-density polyethylene (HDPE).