Advice

Often in the manufacture or repair of furniture made of particleboard require dowels of circular cross section. Manually with a knife to whittle them long, and the diameter of turns of equal length. I propose to make dowels from wooden slats, for example, a cross section of 9×9 mm punch cuts a hammer through a Read more…

To cut sandpaper with scissors should not be as abrasive material will quickly dull the tool. I suggest doing it with a knife. Need to put sandpaper abrasive layer down, and on its back side to scratch a line with a knife. This trail can effortlessly break or break the sheet.

Remote nodes of the tape I smeared with homemade butter. which made from plastic bottle pipette from-under eye drops and medical needle from a syringe. Bottle thoroughly washed and dried. The stopper-cap on the thread secured with a cotton flagellum soaked with glue BF-2. Nose put on the medical needle. Machine oil oiler brimming with Read more…

Plastic pill bottles medicine make excellent caps, signal lamps. The holes in the chassis are drilled on the diameter of the blanks. Caps, painted diluted capelike pasta from ballpoint pens, pasted in them (see Fig.).   A. SIBIRYAKOV, student of 6th CL., g. Novosibirsk

If chairs, armchairs and other furniture with metal or thin wooden legs, they can damage floors, especially linoleum. This will help avoid rubber (for example, from a wheelchair cane) or plastic caps which should be worn on the legs. By the way, thanks to the additional tabs in the caps to eliminate differences in the Read more…

In search of reserves of living space and additional features of the interior, our attention is increasingly attracting ceiling: more and more decisions related to trillenium and slabs. To the suspension was more reliable, I suggest drilling one hole for the bracket or mounting rod, and two under counter angles to each other.   V. Read more…

Intractable loosening the tubular connection experienced craftsmen heated with a blowtorch. Almost the same effect can be achieved and more domestic. Spraying the connection with boiling water of an ordinary kettle, due to thermal expansion can “evict” even rusted the pipe joints.

Wrong strike with a heavy hammer can cause serious injury to the hand holding the chisel. Yes, and a hell of a kick in the arm unpleasant. This work will facilitate and protect a simple removable handle (see Fig.), bent from steel strip and fixed at the top of the tool with the bolt-ladder. It Read more…