Advice

In the case when working with a drill and the hand key to tighten the Chuck, you’d get a screwdriver with a nail, an extra drill or any metal rod of suitable diameter. As they interact, it is clear from the figure.

Original table lamp can be made in one evening, and it will require only a small sheet of thin iron. He will perform the role of the base, and a lampshade, and a reflector. Enough at one end of the sheet to make cuts and bend the petals — this will be “legs” that prop Read more…

Yes, there is such a need in ski boots in them, the holes for pin mounting when walking without skis instantly clogged. To avoid this will allow the covers of canvas or leather worn on the toe and secured with a rubber ring.   V. GOLOVASHIN, R s b n o e, Ryazanskaya obl.

When you need to hammer a nail near the ledge of the wooden parts, then there is always the danger of damaging it. However, this will not happen if you use any metal or plastic strip installed between the nail and the ledge, it will send the hammer and protects the edge of the part.

If you have a lot of time to measure the volume of the same liquid or granular materials, make the appropriate mark on the measuring circle, glued at the right level strips of adhesive medical tape. At the same time can be done on them and the labels which are specified died.

The shoes often come unstuck the bow of the soles, which if the home repair is difficult to clamp. I made this simple arrangement of plates and a bolt with a nut. Pinched and soaked in it gluing it turns out reliable.

Placing small pebbles around the trunks of potted plants, prevent gullies in the soil when watering. And paste over smooth colorful stones in the pot, turn it into a work of applied art.

A persistent problem with houseplants: how not to let them dry out, when you are a long time absent from home? Have some way to ischislyaetsya to the ground was constantly wet. Here’s one such method: in pots filled with the necessary supply of water, and the bottom hole of the pot is inserted into Read more…

In many miniature clamping devices, from popular with electricians and ham radio “crocodiles” for the temporary connection of the conductor to all kinds of clothes pegs – used twisted or flat spring, which at the wrong time can break. In this case, will help out any band, is wound in the jaws of the clamp, Read more…

The lock bolt is in the mailbox does not always withstand the encroachment of the feeder bullies. Too primitive its form is thin and the iron from which it is made. But if you replace the stock bolt with steel plate cross-section 20×3 mm, bent as shown, so just the box, no one will open.