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…
When talking about the amateur constructor E. Kulikov, it should be noted that all the units and mechanisms he has made are designed to ease the labor and daily life of rural residents. Let us touch upon one of the problems annually solved by village residents, and by those who live in most Russian settlements Read more…
Nowadays, you can buy any tool, any mechanism. However, all of this costs a considerable amount of money. For the maintenance needs of the technical school where I teach, a compressor was needed. But the price range for compressors of Chinese manufacture (far from the best quality) started at eight thousand rubles and increased depending Read more…
Most amateur constructors are constrained not only in space (usually they have only a small corner in their apartment for pursuing their favorite hobby), but also in time (they can dedicate themselves to this only late in the evening or early in the morning, when all household members are asleep). Some work can be done Read more…
It’s useful to supplement the arsenal of metal-cutting machines in a home workshop with a pendulum saw. It can be mounted on a workbench, next to bench vises, in which the workpiece to be processed is clamped. The working tool of the saw is an abrasive disc. It can handle steel bars, angles, pipes, sheets Read more…
Sometimes even a reliable electric drill fails. As statistics show, failures occur not so much in its mechanical part as in the electrical part. But while there are many published tips on restoring the power cord, replacing worn brushes, a faulty switch, or fixing other simple malfunctions of household appliances, including on the pages of Read more…
I’m sure many amateur car builders face the problem of glazing the body when building their vehicle. Most of them solve this by “tying” themselves to the sizes and shapes of automotive glass used on production models. I, however, took the risk of equipping my “jeep” with triplex-type glass, cut to the required dimensions myself. Read more…
A woodworking machine in a personal household will never be in the way, and when building or setting up a house or dacha, it is simply necessary. However, not everyone has the opportunity to purchase one. Moreover, the machines available for sale don’t suit everyone in everything: either the dimensions are too large, or the Read more…
When my family moved to a far from new estate house with a land plot, I faced the problem of its thorough renovation and construction of outbuildings. It was clear that such work could not be handled with hand tools alone. Therefore, I decided that before starting construction, along with a concrete mixer, I would Read more…
