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Magnetic stand made from old magnet, will take care about the safety of various small items — from paper clips and pins to “precisely” small tools and fasteners. It will also help to find them on the floor, covered with a fleecy rug.

Remove the boots helps convenient device, which is a plate under the heel of the Shoe. To protect the heel from damage, sharp edges of the recesses should be rounded, sanded, and even better to glue it with a soft cloth, such as a tall tale. The device can be multiple, with various configurations of Read more…

Drill chuck, in particular manual, is not always able to keep the drill from turning when machining hard metals or release of the cutting edges of metal. It solves the problem of the groove formed triangular a file to the thrust bearing cartridge, and the corresponding drill stem processing in a winepress.   D. Ovchinnikov

In any workshop is the most convenient way tool storage — placing them on a wall stand: and immediately visible, and easily accessible. However, returning after use, is easily confused on which bracket is which tool was. This does not happen, if on the stand to put paint the shadow outline of each of the Read more…

Offer to store small bolts, screws, nails, nuts and washers, and any other such trifle — cell cardboard or plastic container from under the eggs.   V. GOLOVASHIN, Rybnoe, Ryazan region.

A five-liter cylinders for portable gas stoves are easy to use, but to exchange them for sometimes full and not empty. The fact that the wear of the valve stem from the old container for the consumption of the gas disrupts the gearbox. To restore the flow of gas through gaskets is a difficult and Read more…

Developed a lot of tools for punching large diameter holes in sheets of plywood; many of them are rather complicated or cumbersome. I need only a wooden plank to two nails. Hammer them into the tank so that one became the axis of rotation, and the other is a kind of cutter protruding from the Read more…

For pumping nipple balls often use Bicycle pump with a special needle. But it does not matter if it broke or its just not there at hand: with this work well covered by a normal Bicycle nipple off a rubber tube mounted with its threaded shank in the hole of the pump.

To score a long thin nail, and especially copper or brass (e.g., with mounting frames) is always a problem. Will help you in this case, the conventional pliers or a wooden clothespin.