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At home or at the dacha, a winch will be completely useful. But it costs a lot of money in the store. However, you can make it yourself from a windshield wiper gear motor, and this does not require special knowledge, skills or expensive materials.

Any matter can be solved much faster if you know the technology. We offer a selection of useful tips for the home handyman. It includes recommendations for issues that we may encounter at home or in the workshop.

High-quality soldering of aluminum parts requires special electrodes, argon welding, special equipment and tools. This is due to the fact that the aluminum surface is instantly covered with an oxide film and its tinning is practically

You can make many excellent tools and various devices with your own hands in just 5-10 minutes. Sometimes such homemade products then serve faithfully for decades. This collection contains 7 useful ideas from old masters that you will want

It would seem that a jigsaw is a very simple tool that can only be used to cut workpieces according to previously drawn markings, thereby obtaining a very direct cut. However, there are a few tricks that you may not know about. They allow you to do

Every person with straight hands knows a lot of tricks that he uses when doing this or that job. This collection contains 7 fresh life hacks that you most likely haven’t thought of yet. There is a lot of useful information here for different occasions.

Little tricks when performing carpentry and plumbing work allow you to complete the tasks more accurately and quickly. Often you can save a lot of time by using improvised materials, which initially at first glance are not suitable for use.

The remaining sections of plastic sewer pipes after repair can be used to make various devices. This is a convenient and easy-to-process material that is not afraid of moisture. So if you have scraps, you can do with

Often, home-made devices of original design turn out to be more convenient than factory-made analogues, or at a lower manufacturing cost they are completely as good as them. That is why many often make the necessary devices with their own hands,

Many people have heard about welding with a graphite electrode, which can be removed from a regular AA battery. Usually they perform spot welding of thin sheet metal, up to a tin can. But a graphite electrode can also weld straight seams,

With the help of a simple attachment, a belt sander turns into a grinder. This kind of equipment is very easy to make in just a couple of hours. The beauty of the attachment is that you don’t need to damage the tool, and the machine can always be removed,

How nice it is to fix something broken, thereby saving on replacing it. This collection includes 3 ideas for simple, quick renovations. All of them are easy to repeat even for a completely inexperienced person.

If your old blender is outdated in aesthetic and moral terms, and for these reasons turned out to be unnecessary in the kitchen, then it can be easily and at great expense converted into a mini-drill (Dremel) and used in a home workshop in another

The price of a manual router starts from several thousand rubles and its purchase will be quite burdensome for the family budget, especially if it is used occasionally. If necessary, you can use a router without difficulty and with a minimum

Sometimes at home, in the country, or even in production, there is an urgent need for a strong and reliable connection of two profile square pipes in the absence of welding equipment. It is quite possible to do this and cope with such an operation

An electromechanical hacksaw allows you to cut workpieces even more accurately than a miter saw with a broach. It is simply irreplaceable for certain particularly important jobs, as it leaves a thin, even, string-like cut. Make an electromechanical hacksaw

Many ideas have to be abandoned due to the lack of a tool for this, for example, a welding machine. If you need to make some kind of frame or stand from a profile pipe, then this is possible even without welding. Let's consider method 5

In some situations in a home workshop or even at work, it becomes necessary to connect a profile square pipe with a round pipe that is obviously larger in cross section. This can be done in different ways. Let's consider one of them,

When making a homemade drill press, router or CNC router, you may need to directly install the chuck onto the thin shaft of a 775 series motor. For this you need a special adapter. It is made from a regular bolt.

For a novice welder, the process of welding thin metal no more than 1 mm thick will not be an easy task. The lack of skills in managing the energy of an electric arc will inevitably lead not only to melting of the electrode metal, but also to through

Almost any problem can be solved in dozens of different ways. And many of them are completely unexpected. Let's look at 6 cool workshop ideas that allow you to do ordinary things in a new way.

Not everyone has a good whetstone that can quickly sharpen knives. And to use it, you need the appropriate skills. But you can sharpen knives to razor sharpness with much more affordable means - emery

You don’t have to spend money on buying latches for utility room doors at home or at your summer cottage. They are easy to make with your own hands from waste metal, and this does not require special knowledge and skills.

Rarely does the welding process take place under ideal conditions - often something interferes: objects or parts located nearby, tight spaces, insufficient lighting, difficulties in securing the parts being welded, etc. In this case, some kind of