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To hang curtains, painting, shelf on a wall is not easy. Help out PVA glue or epoxy that can glue the mounting hooks and brackets for non-severe items. For the rest it is necessary to make holes with a drill or a carbide punch and the screws will hold the usual stationery (liquid glass) adhesive; Read more…

Before you drill cylindrical in shape, its surface need to procure under the drill “the hole” — to stake. But not so easy to set the core to such detail. Helps may this simple device, consisting” of two halves: the bottom serves as bed for the most part, and on top of the guide pins Read more…

If there is an urgent need to punch a hole in the tree, but you don’t have suitable drill, you can make… of the nail. Asclepia it on the end as shown in the drawing, and sharpen edges with a file. Such a tool will take any type of wood.   DUDCHUK, S. V. kleschikha, Read more…

The quality of processing lumber a plane largely depends on the sharpness of the blade of the knife (or as it is called, is the glands). And because sharpened part is always from the body of the plane, when storing it is easy to damage. To protect the blade, it is possible to close the Read more…

Like in the “bullseye” target, to get to the center of the end face of the cylindrical body of rotation help simple tool, consisting of only two parts. They can make plastic, metal or solid wood. Made in one rectangular cutout, and the other is a line imposed on the first item on the bisector Read more…

In one of the sets of tips (see “M-K” No. 2, 1983) I was drawn to the shelf of cans. The fact that I have two years successfully used similar stacked “piggy Bank” for storing small parts and fasteners. Collected it also from neatly opened cans, but with spacers from wooden spools from under the Read more…

Many of the works performed on the bench — not the table — associated with the need to check the dimensions. But in many cases far more convenient to do without these devices, it is only necessary to make the measuring instrument the table itself. Stick to the side of the tabletop ordinary tailoring “centimeter” Read more…

Clasp type “burdock”, which is widely used on jackets and other apparel, consists of a strip with a loop surface and pressed against her other band with a dense network of small hooks. Just these last can be successfully used to clean clothes from clinging fluff, hairs and other contaminants. On a wooden block or Read more…

In the old days the cabinetmakers of the port-cities bought the seamen shark skins are covered with keratinized scales krapkowicki flaps allowed us to grind even hard woods. Maybe they have prompted the invention of the abrasive cloth, the appearance of which dramatically expanded the capabilities of processing a variety of materials compared to the Read more…