NOT ONLY THE VISE

NOT ONLY VICEOf course, treating detail at home, you can keep it and just hand, but it is better to use a vise (if they exist of course) — this will increase the usability and reduce the risk of injury. However, the vise can always help — so varied are the details with which to work. In these cases, the help of simple devices. Some of them we provided in the proposed collection.

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THE FRAME… FROM THE BOARDS

FRAME... FROM BOARDSThe desire to build the house occurred to me simultaneously with the receipt in the middle of 1980-ies of land— coveted six acres. Problem how to build a house: brick or wood— it was not. Brick and concrete walls rather tired and in town. Naturally, the choice fell on the hardwood. Only here what type to prefer: chopped (log, Brusova) or panel-frame— this question remained open. All agreed the case.

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BEE DINING ROOM

BEE DINING ROOMDesigned and manufactured by me bee feeder resembles a school pencil case. The side and rear walls made of planks with cross section mm 60×10 each of them with the 4-mm deviation from the upper edge chose a circular saw, the groove depth of 4 mm the width of the groove was done such that the valve is cut from a glass, entered into it freely. Given its front wall height is 8 mm less than the side and rear.

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BURNER FOR GAS-FLAME BRAZING

BURNER FOR GAS-FLAME BRAZINGPropano-butane mixture, which is filled in cylinders for household gas stoves, in optimal conditions, burns in air with a flame temperature up to 1200 °C. It is sufficient to work with “hard” (sredneivkino) alloys: copper-zinc (brass), silver. But to get a flame, the burner must provide good mixing of gas with air, that is, feeding them at a specific ratio — no more and no less! For easy work with small parts torch should be fine, but at the same time steady and fairly hot.

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LENS FOR… MOBILE PHONE OR POCKET KVN

Mobile phone with an optical nozzleIn the early XIX century the French scientist Augustin Jean Fresnel has created an unusual lens, which are not brushed solid piece of glass with a spherical surface, and a set of individual adjacent to each other concentric rings of small thickness, having a cross-sectional shape of the prisms of the special profile. This he achieved small thickness and light weight lenses. Fresnel lens in the past, have found application mainly in large lighting fixtures type marine beacons and today is actively used, for example, in projectors, in viewfinders of cameras and flashbulbs. Small thickness of such a lens allows you to release them in the form of plastic transparent rulers bookmarks, which are usually used by people with low vision read small text.

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FLOORING OF DURABLE WOOD

FLOORING SOLID WOOD

Every day we use a huge amount of things and have almost ceased to notice them. But it turns out in the production of minor things at first glance hides a lot of interesting and informative. Entertainment “Conveyor MK” reveals the secrets of making the most ordinary things at first glance. Tonight, the FLOORS are of hard WOOD.

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RECORDERS

RECORDERS

Every day we use a huge amount of things and have almost ceased to notice them. But it turns out in the production of minor things at first glance hides a lot of interesting and informative. Entertainment “Conveyor MK” reveals the secrets of making the most ordinary things at first glance. Tonight, the RECORDERS.

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