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Today I received an order from my mother: to make a trough for chopping cabbage. My parents used to have, I remember, a special trough for this, about two meters long. As soon as the frosts began, the cabbage was cut and the rubles were cut into small crumbs for several hours in a row,

The handle made of cork tree bark is ideal for equipping hunting and fishing knives, which have a blade with a tang. It is always warm, slightly elastic, and does not sink, so a knife dropped into water remains on the surface. If desired, her

Typically, diamond-type screw jacks are used on passenger cars. Their main purpose is to lift the car to change a wheel. But based on them, you can independently make very powerful vices with high compression force.

In the household, this traditional material is used for fencing, erecting fences, making cages, enclosures, sieves for sifting bulk materials, etc. To reduce costs, instead of buying ready-made Chainlink mesh, you can

I don’t know about anyone, but clasps on necklaces or chains always irritate me terribly - fastening a carabiner or clasp is a real problem. Especially if he is very small. It’s easier for women in this regard; they have nails. And the fat ones

Replacing the oil filter is often accompanied by difficulty in removing it. It is extremely difficult to unscrew it only by hand. When faced with this problem, you can very quickly make a simple puller that allows you to easily unscrew stuck filters.

We used to build play structures out of chairs, pillows and blankets. We had our own secret hiding places. Today we have grown up, but we have our own children. So why not help them and build a real children's house? Perhaps this is at least

Even if you have the meager set of simple tools, with some persistence you can remove the pulley pressed onto the electric motor shaft and replace it with a drill chuck. The result is a tool similar to a drill press or drill.

A belt sanding machine can be used for sharpening knives, axes, chisels, sharpening blades, turning workpieces, removing rust and solving dozens of other problems. This is an indispensable equipment, but for a small workshop

There are many design options for manual pipe benders, but the most productive are lever devices. Unlike screw ones, they bend workpieces instantly, although they require some physical effort. Make a bending machine

Metal tweezers are a fairly common tool. It is especially necessary when repairing something small, for example, when soldering microcircuits, or repairing mechanical watches. They are very convenient for gripping small screws and other small parts.

When reinforcing foundations or laying walls, it is necessary to lay reinforcement, which must first be bent. This can be done quickly and smoothly only on a bending machine. This is a simple and compact device that you can make yourself.

There is a renewed interest in vinyl. It conveys nuances of music that are inaccessible digitally. But the sound quality deteriorates sharply due to dust on the surface, which is aggravated by the tendency of records to accumulate static electricity.

Aluminum is a fairly low-melting metal from which the necessary parts can be successfully cast at home. Let's look at casting technology using the example of manufacturing a car spacer for the A-pillar.

It is not very easy to bend profile pipes without deforming the cross section. To do this, you need special pipe benders, which are expensive and quite bulky. But such a device can be made with your own hands without much expense, if

Hello, today we’ll talk about distillation. This is distillation, the evaporation of a liquid followed by cooling and condensation of vapors. Accordingly, the product is the distillate or residue.

What do a useless pump have in common with a perfectly working grinder? It seems nothing: the first one is only good as scrap metal, and the second one will serve its intended purpose for a long time. But let's not rush - this unit can become the basis for manufacturing

Not every drill takes hardened and hard steel. In this regard, if it is necessary to drill a bearing race, knife blade or other hardened products, difficulties arise. To solve them, you can make a homemade drill that can cope with

For many decades now, pet owners have been unwitting witnesses to the uncompromising war between their pets and Christmas trees. New Year's beauties attract cats like a magnet - this thing reminds them of a scratching post or a playground

You will have to pay a lot of money for a factory new press. But you can make it yourself using a jack. This will not require anything scarce or expensive, except perhaps some time and hard work.

For the simplest lathe in the store you will have to pay several thousand rubles. But it can be made from a drill without much expense, and you don’t have to be a highly qualified specialist to do this.

Most amateur craftsmen do not have a miter saw, so they cut the profile pipe using a grinder. This is an imprecise tool and often produces uneven cuts, especially if there is no angle available to mark the cut line.

To give an untreated board a perfectly smooth surface, sanding is required. If you do this with regular sandpaper or a hand sander, the surface will be smooth, but not even. To simultaneously achieve the correct plane and remove

We suggest making a Christmas tree toy in the shape of a unicorn together with your children.Everyone knows that the fashion for these fairy-tale creatures has been going on for years and all the girls adore these toys. It's time to please your little ones with a wonderful unicorn toy,