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A good soldering holder (aka “third hand”), with three, four, or even six flexible holders, is not cheap. The cheapest holder, more or less decent, that I found on the Internet costs about 2.5 thousand rubles. This money, of course, is not

If you do soldering or work a lot with solvents and paints, then your workplace must be equipped with an exhaust hood. If you have no desire or opportunity to spend money on it or the materials for its manufacture, then collect such

You can use a mini circular saw to cut laminate, plywood and other thin sheet materials. To make it, you just need to buy an electric motor and a couple of little things. Despite the simplicity of such a tool, it cuts like a store-bought one.

If you constantly need steel clamps in large quantities, then make this machine. With its help you can bend them out of the strip. This is much more profitable, and the quality of homemade clamps is higher than that of thin store-bought clamps.

To cut long rolled steel evenly, you need a miter saw. For a small workshop it is of no use. To save space and money, you can make a stand for an angle grinder, which will allow you to completely replace this tool.

Holes and cuts of complex shapes have to be finished manually with a needle file for a long time. If you have a jigsaw, you can install a file on it to eliminate manual labor. This is done simply.

A couple of empty plastic canisters can easily be converted into a lightweight, strong, and spacious tool storage box. To make it you need a minimum of purchased parts and time. Everything is done easily, literally in half an hour.

To quickly and evenly weld pipes, rods and other rolled metal at an angle, it is very convenient to use a special clamp. It holds parts stronger than magnets, and is also capable of being adjusted to different joining angles. It's really

Wire scraps can be stripped of insulation and the copper wires can be scrapped. This is done very quickly using a special electric stripper. It can be made in the form of an attachment for a drilling machine.

For fine wood carving, special cutters with a narrow working part are required. They can be made by sharpening ordinary black screws. Such cutters will turn out even better than purchased budget ones, and most importantly, their edges can be given a shape that is convenient for you.

In order to accurately drill parts, not only the absence of runout on the drilling machine and the perpendicularity of the drill are important, but also the reliable fixation of the workpieces. For this purpose, a specially designed vice is used. You can make such a tool with your own hands.

Without a special puller, removing a bearing from a blind hole without damaging it and the seat itself is very difficult. If such a tool is not available, it can be made from available materials lying around in any garage. We offer

To work with large wooden workpieces, a vise with a wide grip is required. You can make them yourself from old shock absorbers and place them directly on the workbench. With such equipment it will be much easier to work with wood.

It is impossible to make a large, perfectly even hole in sheet material with a jigsaw or grinder.To do this you need a special tool, which is easy to make with your own hands. Combined with a drill, it is capable of cutting round holes in plywood,

A good vice is 10 times more profitable to make than to buy. If you have an old screw jack and scraps of plywood, it will cost virtually nothing. A homemade vice made from a jack screw will be much more reliable than analogues made from threaded

The ideas for turning projects are truly endless. It would seem that you can’t come up with anything new, but turners never cease to amaze. This idea is to make a ten-start thread, the nuts on which can be screwed in any direction.

For quick and accurate cutting of metal workpieces, it is convenient to use a miter saw with a broach. Since this is not a cheap tool, you can simply make a special stand for installing an angle grinder on it. Such a device is practically

The problem of storing tools and hardware is acute for most garage or workshop owners. To put all your stuff on shelves, you need to spend a lot on the material for their manufacture. If the funds for arranging a worker

When assembling metal structures from profile pipes, a welding machine or mounting angles and screws are used.The lack of all this at hand is not a reason to abandon the plan, since connections can be made in another way. You

When rewiring polypropylene pipes, the old fittings have to be thrown away, since it is no longer possible to solder them to the new pipe. This is very sad, because American ones, taps and mud pans are not cheap. Using this method, you can

This idea came to my mind completely by accident, but not without reason. The child urgently needed to disassemble the toy to replace the batteries. I rushed to the closet, but the screwdriver was not there. I found a bit for a screwdriver. I took a screwdriver, but the battery was dead....

In the absence of a miter saw for metal, cutting a pipe at 45° in order to weld a 90° elbow from it is very problematic. If you do this with a grinder, then very precise markings are required. You can do it using a regular sheet of paper.

To protect a steel product from corrosion, it can be coated. Blueing has good abrasion resistance, which is superior to paint, and most importantly, it does not thicken the product. Thanks to this, even threaded elements, such as

When working in the workshop, the mess on the workbench is very annoying. You constantly have to rearrange tools, or look for what you need in a general pile.Having an organizer of the proposed design, there will be no more chaos on your workbench.