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Good, powerful door hinges can be made without using a welding machine. To do this, it is enough to have a drill and a grinder. Moreover, as the main material for a homemade loop, you will only need a small piece of profile pipe.

A whetstone is one of the most convenient tools for sharpening a knife, but not everyone has it. In its absence, you can restore the sharpness of the blade in alternative ways, using various available materials and tools. Let's consider 4 similar

Motorcyclists, owners of walk-behind tractors, and other equipment, often encounter a broken gas or clutch cable. Usually the boss comes off, and the length of the cable allows it to still be used if it is restored. We offer a reliable way to

Many housewives do not like long cooking times.But in order to pamper your family with something tasty, you don’t have to stand at the stove for hours. You can make a quick, airy dough and fry thin, sweet sticks. Dessert is perfect as a

For safety and economic reasons, it is better to keep the gates and doors of utility rooms near the house or on a summer cottage closed. To do this, you need valves, which can be bought in a store, spending a lot of money, especially when

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.

Ginger root has wide uses in medicine and cooking. It is used as an additive to tea and fruit drinks. And in dried form, the root will be an excellent addition to meat and fish dishes. In order to always have ginger in your home, do not

Painting with a paint roller is much faster than with a brush. But there are tricks to speed up the process even more. For your consideration, we offer several ideas for washing the roller after work, and how to upgrade it for painting pipes or large

There is probably no person who has not soiled his hands or his clothes with iodine and brilliant green. While they are more or less washed off from the skin, it is almost impossible to remove them from fabric. However, there are ways that allow you to remove them 100% without leaving a trace.

Carrot seeds are very small, it is difficult to sow them at the required intervals, and later they have to be thinned out. To avoid this, it is permissible to prepare for sowing on winter evenings. To do this, lay out toilet paper and glue seeds to it.

This multimeter attachment is very easy to make and extremely useful in operation. Using it, you can check not only the performance of parts, but also find out the operating voltage or drop. The device supplies high

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.

Fried crucian carp in a frying pan is an appetizing and satisfying dish with a golden crispy crust, which is suitable for everyday and festive feasts. It is a pleasure to cook such fish, the main thing is that it is fresh, without the smell of mud and

In the spring and summer, a large amount of dry grass, leaves, branches, especially after pruning trees, and other organic debris accumulates in a courtyard or country house. To remove such cargo, you will need to hire transport, which costs a lot of money.

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

On a farmstead or summer cottage, it is often necessary to fence off the area, assemble cages or enclosures for keeping animals, etc. Buying chain-link mesh in a store will require considerable expenses. But you can make it yourself using a simple mechanism,

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.

Purchasing ready-made gypsum wall tiles, depending on the quantity required, is associated with large monetary costs. But you can cast it with your own hands if you first make an appropriate mold from silicone, and for this you do not need

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.

One of the most effective ways to combat mosquitoes and other insects is bait lamps. Unlike aerosols, they do not poison indoor air, so they can be used in living rooms. It is enough to screw such a lamp into the socket

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,