TACTFUL CUTTER

For more than twenty years a reader of “Modeller-designer”. Thanks to the magazine made a lot of operational machinery: mini tractor, tillers, circular saw, trevaresse, welding machine, trailers for walk-behind tractor and car… you name it. Publications appreciate the main idea, and to the nodes and the dimensions are roughly, because they are very dependent on the availability of materials and capabilities.

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DRILL ON THE TABLE

DRILL ON THE TABLEThere was a time when to the store to buy any device, especially metal cutting machine tools was difficult. And was expensive, and a run of outlets had. Today to buy such a product just just pay. But the homebrew is still not translated, offering a new design made based on their capabilities. With the technical creativity of Feodor Nikitovich, Kuhtenko our readers are already familiar (see “M-K” N° 6 – 2012). This time we offer the more complex its design – drilling machine, constructed primarily from what the designer had on hand, though without turning and milling operations has not done.

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FOLDING BENCH

FOLDING WORKBENCHIn cramped urban apartments to find the place bulky bench is almost impossible. Well, my folded takes up very little space. In addition, it is light enough to carry in the summer the garden area and continue to work on the air. The workbench is made of two separate parts: removable bench Board and folding table base.

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AGAIN – DOWEL

DOWELRepair of apartments are usually not restricted to pure cosmetics. Frequently time some alterations, additional equipment: build utility cabinets, replacement of cornices, hanging shelves, mirrors, hangers. And this inevitably confronts us with the eternal problem: how it is fastened to the walls? Everyone has experienced domogala my favorite techniques: someone drilling holes with a drill with pobeditovym a drill, others prefer carbide punch and hammer. Well, if you need to attach something to a thin wall – for example, the current incabin boxes or cupboards? Industry in this case offers nothing to the house master. For ordinary walls, you often need something more reliable than sagaydaka over time, the wooden plug or plastic plug.

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THE CORNER OF THE CALIPER

CORNER - CALIPERIt turns out that the caliper can be removed not only linear, but also angular dimensions, for example, the amount of taper or slope of different parts. To obtain such a tool, improving, for example, is known to many caliper type SHC-1 (“revolver”) with a probe of the depth gauge. The limit of its linear measurements is 130mm, which will fully satisfy the business needs of Amateur Craftsmen.

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A JIG SAW, BUT A LARGE

THE JIGSAW BUT GREATThough the proverb States that the red hut not angles, but the frame would remain just a frame, if the house is not decorated wooden lace Welt (sawn) patterns in the boards window casings, shutters, eaves. To revive this Russian national tradition is now trying not only woodworking workshops, cooperatives or factories, but also individual developers — if they erect a country house, cottage or garden house. A good helper in this laborious work can be a simple machine is a mechanical jigsaw. As actuator to match even the motor from a sewing machine.

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TABLE PLANER

TABLE SURFACE

In a makeshift planer front Desk with adjustable height work surface allows to provide the desired chip thickness. And this is the quality and processing performance. In this design of machine front table is raised or lowered in an inclined guide for moving by means of the lead screw.

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TIERED TOOL KIT

MULTI-TIERED TOOL KITThe most common variant of a tool box like the pros, and Amateurs tinkering — usually just a wooden box with carrying handle. Respectively, and its contents, as a rule, is what is called bulk: tools, fasteners, accessories— all mixed up. Not out trying to make a branch or attach additional boxes to use is still uncomfortable. Appeared in the sale of imported boxes with embedded sections, allowing you to restore domestic order, but their price is often more than any power tool.

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PIPE? We will CUT!

PIPE? We will CUT!Cut the pipe threads have not only a plumber. Many people today are forced to learn the profession of home wizard.
But in each case there are certain difficulties, to overcome which requires skills, otherwise much time will be spent in vain, and materials in waste. For threading the plane of the die must be strictly perpendicular to the axis of the part. However, the more dice, the harder it is to fulfill this condition, especially at the beginning of operation when most needed, because plasmodesmatal not to need much pressure.

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A QUIET KID

QUIET

Most Amateur designers are constrained not only in space (usually for doing something they have only a small area in the apartment), but also in time (to devote to this they can only the late evening or early morning when the household is asleep). Some work can be done quietly, but this operation, like drilling holes, connected with considerable noise, and basically it makes gear drills, both electric and manual, although often large cutting speeds and power tool is required.

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