Crafts. Page 7

It takes a lot of time to thinly roll out the dough for pita bread, tortilla or pizza, and your hands fall off after a couple of dozen pieces. In large industries, this is done not with a rolling pin, but with a hydraulic press, squeezing the dough ball into a thin

Many people make special bottle cutters that are used to cut PET bottles into ribbons. The latter are then used as rope, for weaving cords and various crafts. This tape is durable and also has heat-shrink properties.

It is very convenient when the door or gate latches itself when closed. For this purpose, there are many designs of locks on sale, but none of them can boast of such reliability as the proposed homemade latch. It's trouble-free

Potato chips can be prepared at home, but to do this, the peeled tubers need to be cut very thinly. Doing this with a knife is difficult and time-consuming. If you make a combine of the proposed design, then using it to cut potatoes into the thinnest

It is not necessary to buy factory latches in the store for a gate in a farmstead or country house, as well as for the doors of outbuildings, especially when you need several of them. You can make the latches yourself from leftover metal that is no longer good for anything. With this

Although the effectiveness of cutting metal with a plasma torch is beyond doubt, cutting out a perfectly straight circle with it is not at all easy. This requires decent qualifications and time. But if you make a simple device based on magnetic

The seeds of many fruit trees germinate in the spring and quickly turn into young trees. If they are not removed in time, the garden will soon turn into an impenetrable grove. It is best to pull out such seedlings along with the roots. Since they are

Sometimes it may be necessary to bend a relief part from sheet metal, perhaps even with a concave or convex pattern. This could be a box lid, decorative trim, etc. In production they are obtained by pressing between dies. But there is

When arranging a landscape, there is often a lack of beautiful large stones, near which shrubs or flower bushes look great. Such blocks weigh hundreds of kilograms, so there is no way to deliver them to the site on your own. IN

The respirator provides reliable protection of the respiratory system from the penetration of pathogens, dust and pollen that cause allergies. At first glance, this is a complex device that you can only buy. In fact, it’s easy to make it yourself

A jet or rocket stove is superior in many respects to other types of solid fuel stoves and is quite competitive with them. It is beneficial to use it in a country house or in a small garden house. This oven is simple,

During installation and repair work of pipelines, clamps are used, consisting of two halves, tightened together with two bolts. This is a very reliable, comfortable mount. A self-tapping screw or screw can be welded to one of the halves of the clamp, thereby

It is more convenient and reliable to close the doors of outbuildings in a country house or farmstead with a homemade lock, which can be made from scrap metal if you have basic skills in handling metal processing tools.

It is very difficult to bend a pipe at a right angle without crushing its internal diameter without a special machine. Choke constriction from bending is undesirable, especially when it comes to installing heating systems and plumbing. If you are laying a pipeline then

At a dacha or farmstead, a chain-link mesh may be needed for a variety of purposes. In order not to spend money on the purchase, we will make a simple machine with a manual drive for weaving it from steel wire, which will save a lot of money. Metal for

The doors of a cabinet or cabinet can be closed not only using a purchased lock, but also homemade locks with a secret. Their advantage is that they do not have a key in the usual sense, which can be lost. But at the same time, open such a lock without knowing

A belt grinder is the most convenient universal option for grinding and sharpening. It can be used to process flat parts, make bevels on knives, and sharpen almost any tool. In the factory version, such equipment is cumbersome, and

To assemble and join floor boards, door panels, long wall shelves, etc., the workpieces must be compressed along their entire length and with the same force. Purchasing something like this in a store will cost a pretty penny. If desired, some

For modern window accessories you have to pay a decent amount of money and it’s not a fact that they will suit you. But you can make them yourself from inexpensive and accessible materials. Homemade products, characterized by reliability and durability, are quite simple

Tasteful sconces in a modern style with quality sockets inside cost a lot of money. Considering that you need at least a couple of them, it makes sense to save money and make the lamps yourself. This can be made literally from scraps

Usually, to bend a steel strip “on edge,” they use a simple device, which does not provide accuracy in one go and requires fine-tuning. It also requires good physical preparation. But you can make a device in which

In construction stores, folding stops of the “goat’s leg” type are sold, the main disadvantage of which is hard contact with the floor. As a result, the door leaf, when fixed, seems to bump into a leg and “rears up.” Due to additional load

You don’t have to go to the store to buy profiled square PVC pipes. They can be easily made from round PVC pipes, especially since they are cheaper than profile ones of comparable size. Let's consider three simple ways of such transformation to implement

The tongue-and-groove box corner joint is neat and reliable. But it can also be made more powerful if you prepare the grooves with a dovetail router. To do this, you will need to assemble a special conductor.