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The scraps of plastic pipes remaining after repairs can not be thrown away, but put to good use. It’s easy to make various devices out of them, from a dust collector for drilling to stands for wall-mounted tool storage.

To quickly and easily remove bearings, you need a puller. It allows them to be dismantled without damaging them, making it possible to reuse them. Making such a device from scrap materials will not be difficult, especially since all the components

Using simple devices, you can easily transform a steel strip into a ring along the wide side. Bending on edge is much more difficult, and not everyone can do it. Having made another simple device, the transformation process

For a small workshop, a full-size bench vise is an unacceptable luxury. They are expensive, and there is nowhere to put them. For the average user, small removable vises are sufficient, which can be removed from the table when not needed. Trial

To cut perfectly even circles from sheet material of various diameters, you can make a milling compass. It allows you to do this as quickly and efficiently as possible at home using ordinary

If you don’t have a puller for bearings, then dismantling them usually turns into long tricks trying to make do with improvised means. Take 1 hour and make a roller chain puller. With it you can remove bearings in 10 seconds.

Every day, when working around the house or in the workshop, there are hitches due to the lack of various little things that you need to run to the store for. Most of them do not have to be purchased, but can be made with your own hands in 5 minutes. Let's see how

Most life hacks are not applicable in real life, as they simply do not work effectively. But among all the variety of such ideas, you can find really useful ones. Let's look at 5 life hacks that really work well.

Novice welders have little experience, so the seams on the structures being welded are unreliable and unsightly. At first, while the required level of skill has not yet been achieved, you can use special conductors. Let's consider

When working in a workshop, the need for clamps constantly arises, and there are rarely enough of them. We offer a method for their manufacture. It allows you to make any required number of clamps with a minimum set of tools.

For sharpening knives and small workpieces, you can make a compact tabletop belt sander. A motor from any broken cordless tool is suitable as a drive for it. With such a drive, despite its small size, this

For precise, controlled sharpening, it is very convenient to use a sharpener with a stop table. It allows you to correctly position the part in order to set the desired angles when stitching. If you don’t have such a machine, you can make a stand for the grinder,

Nothing removes corrosion or old paint as quickly and efficiently as a stream of sand and air. If you have a compressor, then you simply must sandblast it. We offer the fastest and easiest way to make it.

We offer a new selection of worthwhile ideas for DIYers that may come in handy.Each of the proposed homemade designs can be of interest, as it allows you to simply and quickly solve ordinary problems that you have to face.

When welding metal structures from profile pipes, it may be necessary to make the outer corners rounded. They look better and are also less dangerous. To obtain them, there is a special technique.

When welding, it is often important not only the strength of the connection, but the accuracy of the resulting seam. A novice amateur welder has problems with this, since there are no basic skills in guiding the tip of the electrode. At first, while they are not there yet, so that the seam

A hammer is a universal impact tool that can be used to work better and more conveniently if you use a few tricks. Let's look at 6 of them. You may already know about some, but you will probably learn something new.

When working in a home or workshop, you sometimes have to solve problems for which there simply is no special tool. In this case, you need to manage to get out of the situation. Let's look at 4 everyday situations and how they can be solved.

If you have an old hard drive lying around that no one needs anymore, then you can use it to make an excellent miniature machine for your workshop or home.With which you can easily sharpen knives, scissors, screwdrivers, and some special

In the workshop, a lot of dust, shavings and other debris accumulate on work surfaces with folded tools. To erase or vacuum it, you need to remove everything first. This is long and difficult, so you can make a compact, powerful one

It is difficult to make a quality hole in metal with a dull drill. At the same time, it will become very hot, which can lead to damage to the instrument. But with the help of a simple device, any adult can sharpen a drill.

When cutting boards and other lumber manually at a right angle, the saw cut often deviates by a couple of degrees. You can increase its accuracy by installing a miter carriage on the saw. It is made with your own hands from available

Rusty scraps of pipes and other scrap metal, which at first glance seem like they belong in a metal collection facility, can be turned into something useful. We offer 3 great ideas that allow you to make a necessary household tool out of trash. At least one of them is for sure

When working in a woodworking workshop, it is not always possible to prevent the appearance of suspended matter in the air by connecting a construction vacuum cleaner to the machines.It draws in most of the shavings, but a lot of dust remains flying and then gets into the lungs. For