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Using a couple of large bearings and some scrap metal, you can make a compact manual bending machine for bending thin tubes, strips, round timber and rebar at an angle or making radius fillets. The proposed design is simple in

If the cutting tool is made of bad steel, then ordinary hardening in water will not save it. To correct its softness and increase wear resistance, it can be cyanidated before hardening using yellow blood salt, also known as

To seal cracks in walls, interpanel and inter-tile seams, it is convenient to use a refillable sealant gun. It allows you to squeeze out a solution, glue or sealant in place, which minimizes the consumption of materials, speeds up and makes work easier.

When working with reinforcement when pouring a foundation or reinforced belt, it has to be bent at different angles. If you use only a hammer and anvil, the preparatory process before pouring concrete will take days. Speed ​​up multiple times

If necessary, it is possible to extend the electric motor shaft with a threaded rod. This method will help even if the shaft does not extend beyond the bearing at all. It is necessary to drill a hole in the motor shaft for the stud. To do this exactly without

When making furniture, you may need to bend the slats or bars at 90 degrees. The outer radius of such a connection is rounded, and most importantly, it does not have an open sawn end, so it looks very neat. To obtain such a bend

To make heat-shrinkable PET tape, you need a bottle cutter. Such a tool can be made on the basis of a steel angle, and it will allow you to obtain tapes of different widths.

To decorate your area, you can make a palm tree from brown and green plastic bottles. This is not at all difficult and quite interesting, besides, the bottles will be put to good use and not thrown into a landfill.

For outdoor cooking in a cauldron, you can make a portable stove from old rims.This is much easier than making brickwork, and besides, such a stove can be hidden when not needed or taken with you on a picnic.

To cost-effectively protect grapes from being eaten by birds, you can make pinwheels from plastic bottles. They rotate in the wind and create glare, thereby scaring pests. In addition to practical benefits, homemade bottle spinners are

Standard shop hoes are made of carbon steel, so they quickly rust and require frequent sharpening, which is further complicated by the rather thick blade. You can make an “eternal” and comfortable hoe, and at the same time save money

There is always a job for a small anvil in a home workshop. You can use it not only to straighten nails or make staples, but also to perform some blacksmithing operations - forge a blank for a kitchen or hunting knife, flatten

In addition to its main purpose, a regular bolt and nut can also be used as a material for the manufacture of various devices. Let's look at a few of these homemade products that may be useful.

To decorate your area, you can make a decorative garden windmill from plastic bottles. It's very easy and fun.This homemade product can be made together with children. If you use colorful, bright, saturated plastic bottles, then

Summer is the season of berries and fruits, but the entire harvest may be lost due to annoying birds, then I will tell you how to make a simple homemade product to get rid of flying pests. Also, with its vibration along the rod, it perfectly repels moles in the ground where

To install threaded rivets, you need a special tool. In most cases, its purchase is impractical, since the need for it arises extremely rarely. In this case, you can make a rivet holder for a threaded rivet with your own hands.

To improve the opening in front of the steps, block the entrance to the landing, or to solve other problems, you can install a partition with a honeycomb lattice. It looks very dignified and neat, which makes it hard to believe that it can be welded

If you forget to close the window or door at night, you may find that by morning the whole house is infested with mosquitoes. During the day they hide in various crevices, and by night they fly out and terrorize all household members. To quickly get rid of them, you can place them in

In Finland, in addition to a regular cleaver, a lever cleaver with a shifted center of gravity is also used for chopping firewood. Due to its design, when immersed in a log, it moves to the side, due to which it splits with less effort.

To light wood or coals, you must first chop wood chips. Using only an axe, this takes quite a lot of time each time. In addition, it is difficult to aim evenly with an ax at such small firewood, which is why the wood chips often do not split all over.

The drip irrigation system allows rational use of water and maintains constant soil moisture near the root system of plants. Due to this they grow better. But the main value of such a system is that plants can be left without

If you need to water beds or tree seedlings with a garden hose, you need to use a sprayer. Without it, the stream of water hits close, so you have to get close to each plant; in addition, it erodes the soil and can break

When laying large-format tiles, even with the SVP system, the seams often come apart, since it is difficult to move it with the adhesive after the additive. To prevent this from happening, you can make a reverse hammer. It is convenient for them to lay tiles even under the wall, where the usual

A trimmer line can be made from a regular PET bottle at home. Having the skills to cut PET tape, this will not be difficult at all. In terms of durability, homemade fishing line is inferior to purchased fishing line, but it is free. Sometimes it’s easier to do it than to go to