Support the work piece on the table, the workbench, impact glue sticks, drill the plate pack — in these and many other cases not to do without clamps, but not one, but several and different sizes. The simplest ones you can make yourself from a steel strip and a bolt with a nut. The dimensions of the brackets and the size of the bolt specified for the purpose. Through the longitudinal slot in one of the shelves bracket bolt with nut can be moved to the optimum position or to use with a bracket of a different size. So when tightening do without the wrench, the bolt head radial drill through hole under the rod, the knob and nut to protect from turning the notched lock washer.
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KERN-MARKER
Punching in the sheet material of large diameter or curved forms used by drilling on the contour. However, the punching of the centers of the “contour” hole requires accuracy and is time consuming. Much faster the work will go if the core is to equip a retractable pointed foot with locking screw. Sticking with it Read more…
“MULTI-LATERAL” RACKING
Usually it is used in the kitchen for hanging towels or crockery fully under cups and glasses. However, the capabilities of this design don’t end there. For example, if you attach such a multilateral hanger in the wardrobe, it will immediately find its place ties, belts, straps. Here the hanger is convenient for the fact Read more…
HOLDING MAGNET
Though served the old speaker, and his ring magnet is still strong. Use it for hanging tools. Hold it firmly on any metal surface, for example, repaired the machine, so that the necessary hand tools will be always at hand and small fasteners do not get lost in the grass. Under full wooden Cabinet, rack Read more…
TABLE SHELF
Book required at the moment for work, must be always at hand; however, the folded stack on the table, they interfere, and use them uncomfortable. Make a simple table shelf, and you’ll forget the inconvenience. Missing parts not required: two cutting boards or sheet of chipboard and three wooden rod with a diameter of about Read more…
REMOVABLE SWING
If in the yard there is a horizontal bar, it is easy to make a removable baby swing. On the posts, under the crossbar are attached two thick steel plates with U-shaped groove. Lateral pipe swing, equal in length to the distance between the posts is inserted into the grooves from above. She accidentally jumped Read more…
THE DRAFTSMAN NOTE
A short pencil is more convenient to work with the knob-extension of thin-walled tube. But in this case to use the stylus fails. Offer stick “Shorty” end of another pencil. The connection to the PVA to be robust enough. You can also do two-way pencils: colored or with different hardness of the lead. A piece Read more…
THE SOLDERING IRON IS A NEW SOLDERING IRON TIP
In the practice of Amateur radio is the most time consuming and delicate work — installation of components on the Board. I propose to do to upgrade the soldering iron. Instead of the regular sting set thin tube, for example brass shank from the barrel for charging gas lighters. (Of course, removing it from the Read more…
THE CONDUCTOR-THE COMPASS
Drill without marking the large diameter hole allows this simple fixture. The pilot hole on the end of a piece of wood-a compass will not allow the drill nor “collapses” in the direction nor to deviate from a perfect arc, whose radius is set by the distance to the axis. Uniform spacing between perforations is Read more…
TRUCK-TRUCK
Usual shopping trolley is easy to adapt for transportation of bulk household items, if using metal corners or tubular elements from the old clamshells to increase cargo area, and if necessary to build also the front wall, as shown in the figure.