What if you look at familiar things from a different angle? A spoon can be turned into a collecting lens, a hanger into a convenient holder for a picture on the wall, a book into a weight or counterweight.
Nut - crimper
To reliably connect the welding cable to a power source or consumer, an aluminum or copper tip is used, for crimping which a special tool is required - crimping pliers or a crimper.
But if it is not at hand, then the crimper can be successfully replaced with an ordinary hexagonal steel nut. Moreover, the larger the cable cross-section, the larger the size of the hardware should be.
To do this, clamp the nut in a vice and cut it into two equal parts with a grinder.
Then, putting the tip on the bend of the stranded wire, wrap it around the nut halves and, placing it between the jaws of the vice, gently squeeze until the parts fit together almost without gaps.
After removing the improvised crimper (nut halves), we make sure that the tip has reliably and firmly crimped the bend of the stranded wire, providing the necessary electrical contact, which is very important for the high-quality operation of welding equipment.
Hacksaw blade - sandpaper cutter
Due to its layered structure, it is not at all easy to carefully tear off a piece of sandpaper from an array without special tools, especially when it is fabric-based.
To facilitate and refine this operation, it is convenient to use an old blade for a hacksaw for metal as a technical “assistant”, preferably a double-sided one, which has greater rigidity.
To do this, it is necessary to place volumetric washers under the steel strip to ensure a guaranteed gap, using screws of suitable size, and screw it with an electric drill or a hand screwdriver through the holes at the ends to a wooden wall or board.
Now it is enough to insert the sandpaper from below between the wall and the canvas, grab it from above with the other hand and pull the top edge down until the strip of sandpaper bends over the top edge of the canvas and, holding the sheet from below, begin to tear off the desired piece from one edge of the strip to the other. In order for the tear line to be smooth, it is necessary to hold the bottom edge of the paper in one position, without moving upward.
