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When a bolt or stud breaks off and remains deep in the hole, the situation seems hopeless. This happens if: you apply excessive force to the key; the hardware turned out to be defective (for example, the presence of an internal microcrack); there was a delay

Some factory-made tools are sold without handles, so you have to purchase them separately, or craftsmen make handles with their own hands. These can be hacksaw blades, files for wood and metal, reamers, etc. Sometimes

I think that sooner or later every master begins to get annoyed by the lack of a normal workplace. So it was with me: the room allocated for the workshop looked more like a warehouse or just a cluttered closet, where all the tools were spread out

Who hasn't experienced the irritation of searching for a particular wrench in a bench drawer or special box where they are usually located in a chaotic mess? There is an opportunity not to spoil your mood, improve your culture

Just a super device for quickly cleaning the workplace. We drilled, sawed, ran a magnetic brush and in a couple of seconds removed the metal shavings in one motion. A very convenient and necessary thing. Collects the smallest granules, which is why

When you do something on your desk, good lighting is very necessary. I used a fluorescent lamp. Its light was enough for all my needs. While putting things in order in the workshop, I successfully broke my lighting. Working with ceiling lighting is very

I like the old big, heavy speakers that were popular in the 90s. Despite their advanced age, they still sound pretty good and produce good bass. I recently came across a couple of these speakers in poor condition, but I

Threaded connections are quite reliable and efficient. They are considered one of the most common and cost-effective. However, when exposed to vibration, there is a possibility of weakening them. This can often be seen in the example of nuts, arbitrarily

When working with emery, there is always not enough light. I cover the garage light with my body and a shadow appears on the workpiece.Initially I used a carrier, even used a headlamp. I decided to make the task easier and make permanent lighting.

If you've ever driven small screws into hardwood, chances are you've experienced them breaking at the worst possible time. The result (for example, when installing a piano hinge) is a double problem:

Many industrial products use rivets as a way to securely and quickly fasten an assembly that will not be disassembled in the future. Rivets are often used to join thin sheet metals. If you need to remove a rivet and not

Many craftsmen consider the presence of such a brush to be a relic of the past, preferring modern tools. However, a real specialist understands the real advantages of such a product and always keeps it at hand. However, for some operations

One of the necessary attributes of a home craftsman is a small anvil. It will be useful to anyone who likes to do everything on their own: often you need to level some piece of iron, which requires a flat and heavy surface on which you can safely

Hi all! Today I will show you how to get a three-phase network from a regular single-phase 220 V network, and at no particular cost.But first, I’ll tell you about my problem that preceded the search for such a solution. I had a powerful Soviet tabletop circular

Surely in your garage, if you search hard, you can find broken pliers that are high time to throw away. This master class is precisely about the fact that you don’t need to do this, but you need to turn an unnecessary thing into a very useful tool,

Hello, my little blacksmiths, today we’ll talk about the main part of the forge, that is, the forge. It is here that the workpiece is heated to the required temperature before forging, hardening or other heat treatment operations. And our forge, by the way, is capable

You can make a very convenient manual belt sander from an angle grinder with your own hands. With the help of such a tool it is good to sharpen an ax, knives, etc. Treat the surface at any angle, giving it a flat plane. In general, the one who

I am sure that many of you have found antique knives, forks, dishes, etc. in your life. So I, sorting through the rubble in an old barn, found a kitchen cleaver, or rather its blade, since the handle had long rotted. It was in a terrible and almost unusable condition.

Hi all! I will tell you how to make a very convenient key for the chuck of your drill, drilling machine or hammer drill. The original key that comes with the kit is extremely inconvenient.It is very difficult to tighten the drills and when changing the drilling tool frequently

You can make a very useful and simple thing for your workshop in just a few minutes - this is a clamp from a piece of profile. It can be used to fix workpieces made of both metal and wood. So if you suddenly need to clamp

A folding aluminum ladder in a hardware store in my city is not cheap. That’s why I decided to take this master class to make a wooden staircase that would be just as good as a store-bought one, and maybe even better. Either way it's not true

A very simple stand for an angle grinder can be made from just a few pieces of a rectangular profile in a couple of tens of minutes. And in the end you will get an excellent cutting machine with which you can cut metal workpieces smoothly and quickly.

Holders that are very easy to make yourself make life a lot easier. Hung at various levels above the workbench, the entire tool is always within arm's reach. The search takes a minimum of time and effort. I think,

The penetrating lubricant that will be discussed is many times superior to the most common WD-40, which everyone loves to use when unscrewing old, rusty bolts and nuts. Very often, when trying to unscrew a rusty threaded