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Using a fairly powerful electric motor, you can assemble a belt grinder. One of the main difficulties in this case is the manufacture of the drive pulley. Many people make it from plywood, gluing it in several layers. This is the easiest way, but such a pulley

Usually, to bend a steel strip “on edge,” they use a simple device, which does not provide accuracy in one go and requires fine-tuning. It also requires good physical preparation. But you can make a device in which

In construction stores, folding stops of the “goat’s leg” type are sold, the main disadvantage of which is hard contact with the floor. As a result, the door leaf, when fixed, seems to bump into a leg and “rears up.” Due to additional load

The performance of a circular saw due to lengthy settings, including marking, when cutting at 90 or 45 degrees, drops significantly. If you have a homemade, not very complicated device, these operations will be much faster and easier.

Connecting steel rings usually cost much more than the rod from which they are made. In this regard, in order to save money, it is better to make such products with your own hands. To do this you will need a simple ring bending machine.

A TIG welding machine is significantly more expensive than a conventional inverter. For the average user, such equipment is inaccessible. Let's look at how you can very cheaply convert a welding inverter to TIG without purchasing an argon cylinder.

Not everyone can afford to have a metal lathe in their home workshop. But if there is a need for a pulley on an electric motor shaft or for other purposes, it can be made without a lathe, using only universal

In carpentry, even having a large arsenal of power tools and machines does not allow you to do everything perfectly. In addition to equipment, various tricks are required. Let's look at 5 of them.

The file blade becomes clogged with small sawdust. As a result, it stops working and just slides across the surface.To return the tool to its effectiveness, you need to clean out its notches.

Metalworking work often requires precise marking of circles on sheet steel. An ordinary compass is of little help here, since its needle cannot be fixed in such a way. To do this, you need a specific tool that is easy to make with your own hands.

Many types of welding work are best done using TIG welding. But this is too expensive equipment for an amateur who can usually only afford an inverter. If you have one, it can be easily converted to TIG if necessary.

Cutting almost all materials with a jigsaw is accompanied by the formation of chips. To avoid them, you can make a special pad for the sole of the instrument. It will also allow you to use a simple parallel fence mounted on the edge

Often a screwdriver breaks down before its motor fails. In this case, its entire parts can be used to make another tool, for example, a circular saw. Of course, they cannot cut large boards, but for plywood

Under the band saw blade, sawdust is packed onto the pulleys. Since they contain resin, they stick together and form a solid mass. This changes the geometry of the pulleys, causing the cutting blade to turn out a little. This gives unwanted beating,

A vice in a home workshop will never be superfluous. They can be used to process both metal and wooden workpieces. Since buying a vice in a store is associated with significant costs, it is better to make them yourself from junk

If the jointing machine begins to “drive” defects, then the problem is most likely in the knives of its working part. Sharpening them is not an easy task and requires high qualifications. But having made a simple but reliable device that any adult can do, with this

To smoothly bend profile pipes at 90 degrees, some experience and separate calculations for each size are required. But any adult can handle this task if he has a special marking tool that can be reconfigured to any

It is almost impossible to drill with a drill at a strictly right angle simply by holding it in your hands. If you need to make precise holes, then you should install it on a stand. Many brands offer similar devices, but even the most

To bring wood blanks to perfection, you can attach a sanding thicknesser to the drilling machine. It is cheap to make and quite simple, but very useful. If you have a drill press, then be sure to

In the absence of a sharpening machine, many basic tasks have to be completed longer than is possible with its help. If you are faced with the need to buy a sharpener, but you have a drill, then just make it based on it. It's very simple

The quality of welding work strongly depends on the preparatory procedures, including the fixation of the workpieces being welded, which can be disrupted by touching the electrode. To eliminate this negative, there are magnetic holders, a set of which

If you only have a drill press and no lathe in your workshop, this is an easy fix at almost no cost. You can make a simple attachment that turns a drilling machine into a lathe. Its functionality is sufficient to

Standard factory-made knurling rollers may be excessively large for processing small workpieces. For small parts, it is better to do the knurling yourself using wheels from lighters. Those are made of very hard material, so

If you have a drilling machine, but no sharpening machine, then you can make this attachment. It allows you to obtain a drum and disk sharpener using a drive from a drilling machine.This is a very practical solution that is inexpensive to manufacture.