Garage

In this review, the author shares a useful idea for the house and home workshop - how to make a flexible screwdriver with your own hands. What is it for? The fact is that in some situations it is not always possible to get to an inaccessible place with an ordinary screwdriver. A flexible one copes with this task without problems.

In this review, the author shows how to make a home-made machine for cutting metal and wood (using an electric drill as a drive). Of course, it should be noted right away that the speed of the electric drill is insufficient for such a machine. If possible, it is better to use an asynchronous motor with a capacity of 1-2 kW.

In this review, the author shows how to make a fairly simple and easy to use homemade knurling tool with your own hands. The tool is made on the basis of clamping pliers. You will also need three rollers and mounts for them, which can be made from pieces of metal. Then they need to be welded to the clamping pliers.

In some situations, craftsmen use grinding tips with Velcro for manual grinding (well, you never know - suddenly there is no electricity, but you need to grind it). To make it convenient to use the grinding nozzle, the author decided to make a holder with his own hands. The material is wood. First of all, using a core drill, it will be necessary to drill two round billets of suitable diameter from a piece of wood or plywood.

If you often use a meat grinder at home or in the country, then from time to time you are faced with the need to sharpen a knife and grill. Actually, there is nothing complicated here. You can sharpen the knife and grill both on the grinding machine and manually, using sandpaper. We recommend reading: how to sharpen a four-blade knife of a manual meat grinder.

In this review, the author shares the idea - how to make a homemade lift for a car out of air bags. This lift works from the compressor. You can do it in just a couple of hours: you only need air bags from the trailer, a reinforced hose, two taps and two L-shaped mounts.

With the help of even a home-made stamp on leather products, you can make various beautiful drawings. In this review, the author shows how to make a stamp for the skin with your own hands. If this topic is of interest to you, then read on. To make a home-made stamp, the author uses a piece of a metal square bar with a cross section of 10 * 10 mm.

In this review, the author tells in detail and shows how to make a compact and quiet mini circular saw for the home workshop with your own hands. Distinctive features of this machine are not only compact size and low weight, but also a low noise level during operation. The mini circular is designed for saw blades with a diameter of 85 millimeters (internal diameter - 15 mm).

In this review, the master shows the manufacturing process of a home-made quick-clamp clamp. It is attached to the workbench. To make a clamp, the author uses a piece of metal 6 mm thick, as well as a steel strip 40 mm wide and a strip 25 mm wide. The first step is to make markings on the workpieces, and cut out the parts that will be required to make a quick-clamp clamp.

In this review, the author shares his advice on how to do it yourself, without using a crane, to move a small building to another place: a bathhouse, a change house or a garage. In this case, the author needs to move the temporary garage in order to build a permanent one in stone in its place. First of all, the garage must be freed from rubbish.

In this review, the author shows the manufacturing process of a home-made conductor, which is useful when welding profile pipes. This tool simplifies the welding of the profile pipe, especially if you work independently. Make it quite easy. For the manufacture of a conductor, it will be necessary to cut a piece of a profile pipe 40 * 25 mm long about 15-16 cm.

Roller bending machine can be used for rectilinear and curved bending of thin sheet metal. Due to its light weight and compact size, such a device is suitable for use both in the garage or home workshop, and directly at the installation site. The first step is to cut off two steel bars and a piece of pipe.

In this review, the wizard shows how to make a Chinese traditional instrument, which is useful in the process of working with wood. To make it, you will need two wooden blocks, a piece of thin metal (for example, you can use a wide blade for a hacksaw for metal), two bolts and two clamping levers.

In this review, the author tells in detail and shows how to make a small bending machine for a home workshop or garage. To do this, you need a piece of channel 120 mm and a building corner. The design itself is quite simple. If you have the necessary tools (angle grinder, welding machine, drill), everyone can repeat this homemade work.

To chamfer plastic sewer pipes, the author decided to make the easiest chamfer for PVC pipes. To make it, you will need a plastic clamp with fastening, two nuts and a washer of a suitable size. A chamfer is made for a specific pipe diameter - in this case, for a pipe with a diameter of 50 mm.

A simple home-made stand for a fishing rod (or spinning) allows you to free your hands in the process of fishing and to avoid their flowing, because sometimes you have to hold the fishing rod for a very long time. You can make such a stand from improvised materials. It will take two pieces of pipe of different diameters, a stud and a nut.

In this review, the author makes a convenient camping case from a metal canister of 20 liters. Barbecue facilities can be transported there. Also, such a homemade suitcase can easily be adapted to something else. First of all, we cut out a part of the side wall of the canister with a grinder. It will be the door.

In this review, the author shows the process of making a home-made clamp for the workshop. The main material is reinforcement. Additionally, you will need: a piece of a round pipe, a bolt with an extended nut and pieces of metal. First of all, the author cuts a piece of a round metal pipe, and with the help of a sledgehammer flattenes it.

In this review, the wizard shows how to make a very simple, but useful tool for your home workshop with your own hands. And it is especially useful for beginner joiners. It will be a conductor for drilling dowel holes. Unlike universal conductors, this device is “sharpened” for a certain size of a wooden bar.

In this review, the author decided to make do-it-yourself tabletop vise with triangular lips. What are they needed for? With this tool, workpieces can be sawed not only directly (that is, at a right angle), but also at an angle of 45 degrees. Homemade vise made of wood. It is advisable to use hardwood: oak, hornbeam or others.