You will agree that cooking shashlik outdoors in rainy weather brings little pleasure. A simple canopy will help avoid inconveniences and enjoy appetizingly smelling meat, and its construction does not require professional carpentry skills. I saw this design last autumn in one of the village yards. The basis of the canopy consists of six vertical Read more…
This machine will become your assistant if you are engaged in modeling or simply love to tinker. Even at home, there is often a need to cut a rail and plane it or sharpen a tool — all these operations are “within the power” of the machine I made. It is small — dimensions 80Х180X360 Read more…
This wall-mounted cellular shelving unit is very convenient for storing a supply of various drinks in bottles — from mineral water and wine to yogurts. They are visible, easily accessible, and take up little space. Blanks To make such a shelving unit, the Bulgarian magazine “Napravi sam” recommends using smoothly planed boards 20 mm thick Read more…
An old but wise folk saying goes: “Bread is the head of everything.” However, storing it in advance is a hopeless task. It goes stale and dries out very quickly, or even gets moldy and becomes unfit for consumption. And as is known, fresh bread is especially tasty. But people have not yet found a Read more…
When there is no permanent gazebo on a summer cottage for rest on a hot summer day, the only salvation from the scorching sun is a large “beach” umbrella. The undeniable advantage is that the umbrella can be installed anywhere you want to organize a rest area, where a table with chairs or just a Read more…
Greenhouses are, of course, not a whim or a fashion, but a necessity that many have struggled with. After all, these structures, covering a plot of land with glass or film, allow not only to plant seedlings in the ground earlier, but also (which is no less important) to protect the growing plants from acid Read more…
A circular electric saw is a very useful thing in any household. In terms of usefulness, it is probably in second place after an electric drill. About the design of the electric saw: it couldn’t be simpler. Its basis is a DAO-A type electric motor from a washing machine. The electric motor doesn’t have to Read more…
Indeed: how to remove combustion products from a stove without a good chimney? Without it, there will be no necessary draft either. There are three main types of chimneys — wall-mounted (inside capital brick or stone walls, also called wall chimneys); root (brick risers standing separately from the stove); mounted (directly on the stove top). Read more…
My fifth-grade grandson recently came to me with a request: he needed to come up with a project for 3D printing, the kids from the internet would download toy soldiers, but he wanted to make something useful – could I help? A tin can caught my eye. – Try to find the center of a Read more…
It happens that a stud or tap gets cut off or broken, remaining in the hole. An unpleasant situation, but not hopeless. A proven technique will help: the hole needs to be drilled out to a larger diameter that allows extracting the fragment, cutting a thread in it, and screwing in a bushing for a Read more…
