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Text Fairy: copy text from an image on Android

Copy text and paste it into the message - what could be easier? Every smartphone owner knows how to perform this simple operation in a browser or document. Let's complicate the task. Let's say you need to forward a passage to another user

An easy way to fix a drop-down socket

Sometimes a sturdily and reliably fixed in a nest is too spacious. Then the electrical outlet is difficult or even impossible to fix in it through the retractable legs available in its design. Not even their help

How to make a handle for a tool from a plastic pipe

Sooner or later, the hand tool wears out. Craftsmen, scoops, chisels or knives, all this familiar to us equipment suffers from damaged handles. But replacing them is easy and short-lived. In this case, you do not have to cut wooden halves for

How to make a loop on a cable

In the trunk of a car there is often a skein of steel tow rope. At its ends, hooks are usually placed. Under load, when towing, they can break, after which their heavy fragments accelerated by a spring-loaded cable fly into the car,

How to colorize any black and white photo in 1 minute

Hello friends! Today I want to share with you one very amazing online service, with which you can absolutely free to colorize any black and white photographs in almost a matter of seconds. You don’t even need to register (link to

How to check the water meter yourself and why you need it

Once I changed the water meters in my apartment, the time has come so to speak. He didn’t change it himself - he called a locksmith from the housing and communal services. He replaced, it means everything seems to be as it should: water runs the meter believes there are no questions. A month later, it's time to take readings and

How to crimp a tip with a nut

All material objects that daily surround us are intended for something. A spoon is needed to eat, a hanger - to store clothes in a closet, a book - to read ... But what if you look at familiar things from a different angle?

Screwdriver gear from a broken grinder gearbox

Any instrument has its own deadline. But this does not mean that it needs to be thrown into the landfill, because some of its parts can still be used. For example, as in today's case with a failed grinder (angle grinder). Let's try to make it interesting

How to make a simple laser level from a pointer

In construction and decoration, accuracy is essential, which can be perfectly observed with the laser level. This is an expensive tool, so buying it for a one-time repair is not practical. For small jobs, you can make a level yourself from

Repair of the plastic handle of scissors

The most effective repair of plastic on the example of manual scissors, in which one of the handles broke due to excessive force. I will talk about a way to repair broken plastic products. This method will allow them to be used as intensively as before

Do-it-yourself wire rope casting

Often there is such a problem - a boss has come off at the end of the cable, fixing it on the gas handle. Usually the problem is solved by replacing the cable assembly, but you can try to restore the latch, which I did with pleasure.

How to simply and evenly increase the hole in the washer

Typically, the internal mounting hole in the washer for the nut is only slightly larger than the diameter of the bolt, and with all the desire to quickly remove it, it will not work, because even a slight skew leads to jamming of the bolt in the thread. Me on my homemade workbench

Wood milling cutter for through and blind blind holes

Imagine that you are facing a specific task: to make a dull hole in a tree under a bearing. To press it in, you need a certain diameter of the cutter, not the fact that a tool of this size will be in the store. Therefore, it’s easier and cheaper to do

How to accurately drill a side hole in a round workpiece

Sometimes in the manufacture of various homemade products, it is necessary to drill a hole that is ideal in accuracy of location on the side of the tube or rod. To do this without preliminary preparation and tools will not work. Main difficulty

Making a cache with a spare key on a car body

Somehow, my friend left the keys in the ignition, got out of the car, slammed the door - and the alarm went off, blocking access to the salon. It happened on the track, it was snowing, and nothing more relevant than breaking the glass of the back door did not occur to him.

How to make a simple handle for a broken knife

I have a folding knife with a ceramic blade. He repeatedly helped me out on trips to the country and on picnics. Perfect sharpness of the blade, which does not require sharpening, hygiene and lightness. In general, I became attached to him. After all, it happens that with some

We increase the efficiency of the trimmer: we change the fishing line to a chain from a chainsaw

Being the owner of a gas trimmer, I drew attention to the fact that the fishing line, even the thickest, does not cope with young shoots (especially there are a lot of it around tree trunks). You can use knives, but they are not suitable for thin grass (a

How to make a ring glass cutter

The holes in the glass are cut with special tools: drills, countersinks, crowns, some of them with diamond spraying. Sometimes you need to drill one or more holes in the glass. In order not to make an expensive purchase, you can perform

Five Ways to Unscrew a Bolt with Torn Edges

The edges of the bolts round up over time, which is especially the case with soured and rusted bolts that cannot be unscrewed. Trying to do this, people often themselves additionally turn the edges, rendering not only the bolt heads unusable, but

5 ways to sharpen a knife without a sharpener in the field

It is more convenient, productive and safer to use a sharp knife, which can only be achieved by sharpening correctly performed. When working with a blunt tool, you have to put a lot more effort than is required for the

How to make an effective wire stripper

With a large amount of work with electric wires (replacing highways, repairs, etc.), you can not do without a special device to expose the ends of the wiring. There are special mechanisms that facilitate this time-consuming process, but few people know what five

Fast sharpening chainsaw chains grinder

From time to time, the chain of the chainsaw dulls, especially with serious amounts of work to cut old wood.In addition, when the notches on one side are blunt more than on the other, this leads to deviations from the straight line of the cut and can cause

How to restore a knife if the handle breaks off

Sometimes the knobs of the handle break off at the knives, especially if they are made of plastic. It is a pity to throw out the knife plate, especially when the blade can still serve for a long time. We will first discuss two ideas for restoring a knife handle, and then

How to peel boiled eggs quickly: 4 proven ways

It can be very difficult to peel eggs cooked on a salad so as not to remove half the protein along with the shell. This is unpleasant for several reasons. Firstly, the lesson is time consuming. And, secondly, half of the product goes into the bin.
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