Lifehacks for the home: take it and do it

Varnish assistant

Using nail polish you can not only protect your favorite tights from arrows. There are other useful life hacks. Threads are dipped in varnish to quickly thread them into the eye of a needle. The varnish is used to seal mailing envelopes and screws in loose glasses, as well as buttons that are about to come off, but there is no way to sew them on.

If the glass is cracked, you can coat it with colorless varnish on both sides before the technician arrives. If you cover the bottom of metal bottles or tubes with clear varnish, they will not leave rust marks on the bathroom shelf.

Option to design a sports steering wheel yourself

We'll look at how to make a sports steering wheel yourself below. For it, you need to take material for the future case - leather is better.

You should measure the exact dimensions of the steering wheel. For more convenient work, it is better to remove it. Wrap with film, then tape. Mark future seams with a pencil. Divide the workpiece into several parts, then label each of them with numbers.

Transfer the dimensions of the blanks onto paper, then onto the material. Sew with thread yourself or using a sewing machine.

Then you should pull it onto the steering wheel, it should be pulled tight. The seams that tighten both sides are called sports seams.

The entire steering wheel is tightened using these seams, then the necessary places are glued with glue. Thus, we get a sports steering wheel.

For residents of country houses

Living outside the city, people often eat outdoors. Place the dining table under a fruit tree, bask in the sun and dine in good company - what could be better?

Only annoying ants can interfere, which will definitely climb onto the table, closer to the delicacies. To prevent this from happening, place the table legs in basins of water (photo).

Features of the “Do it yourself” format in Russia

In European countries, DIY hypermarkets primarily sold products with which customers could independently complete renovations in an apartment or do something with their own hands, following detailed instructions.

In Russia the situation is slightly different. The DIY format, popular all over the world, based on an objective assessment of Russian realities, could be called “Do it for me.” This is due to the fact that most projects related to home improvement are entrusted primarily to professionals who fulfill all the wishes of customers. The owners of an apartment or country cottage themselves only choose the accompanying finishing materials and interior items.

However, today there is a stable trend, similar to Western countries - the popular “home” DIY format is beginning to gain wide popularity in all regions and regions of Russia. Residents of cities and rural areas increasingly prefer to make practical things with their own hands rather than spend money on expensive goods. According to statistics, the increased attention of modern buyers is attracted not only by goods or technologies for home repair and improvement, but also by DIY gifts, the demand for which increases on the eve of major holidays.

Notebook Stand

To prevent your favorite laptop from overheating, of course, you can spend money and purchase a special stand. But it’s better to save money and use a regular egg carton for three dozen.

Turn the box over and place the gadget on it. The cooling pad is ready. If desired, the box can be decorated at your discretion.

Folding workbench options

In the media of mass information, self-made home masters publish a large number of different self-made drilling tools. Optimal options for folding installation according to the foldability of preparation and consumption:

Springy.
Based on a steering rack.
With belt drive.
Mini versat.

Springy

The spring plays the main role of the rotation mechanism for moving the drill. The following tools and materials are required to produce a spring assembly and any workbench.

Tools

electric brewing unit, which operates as a daily power cut;
electric drill;
bream;
pipe bender;
installation tools – pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammer, etc.;
cutting machine;
sander.

Materials

steel water pipes;
metal sheet 8 - 10 mm thick;
steel smuha zavtovshki 2 - 3 mm;
hardware (bolts, nuts, washers);
welding electrodes;
spring;
pen.

The preparation of parts and the folding workbench is carried out in several stages:

The frame is cut from a metal sheet. The larger the surface area, the more stable the control will be. Best of all, it will be a square of 50 x 50 cm. The metal sheet can be fastened to the table or workbench with bolts through the holes.

A section of pipe approximately 400-500 mm long is welded into the frame. This is how the bench stand is formed.

The pipe section bends in the shape of the letter “C”. Weld couplings to the ends of the frame, the diameter of which would fit the tripod (stand).

Place a spring on the stand. Then the frame clutch is lowered onto the tripod. A washer is welded to the lower coupling to rest against the spring.

With black metal, 40 mm wide, it is important to chop. It is important to open the installation doors.

An eyelet is welded to the upper part of the stand to hinge the end of the support.

At the bottom of the frame, drill a hole for hinged fastening in the middle of the frame. A later groove is cut at an important plane to move the hinge. Secure the middle part of the vazhel.

A hole with a passage diameter of 42 mm is welded to the protruding side of the support frame. All standard electric drills have the same diameter of the body neck.

At the end of the day, it is important to dress or weld the handle, hand-holding the hand.

Insert the electric drill into the hole and tighten the bolt connection. The workbench is ready for work.

It is necessary to understand that such a folding bench scheme is not a dogma. This is an insurance option for the work of a compressed spring. There are structures like the reciprocating arms of an extended spring. You can also use the wine table.

Based on steering rack

This is a simple version of the design of the bench based on the steering rack. The steering bar can be found at a car dismantling shop. The rack is a metal strip with a toothed surface, placed in the body. To prepare a bench, you will need a set of tools - the same as in the spring version.

Materials

steel roll - 50 x 50 mm;
metal sheet 8 - 10 mm thick;
welding electrodes;
steel smuga 40 x 2 mm;
car steering rack;
steering wheel axis shank;
flywheel;
metalvirobi.

Staged collection

Cuts of bundles are boiled at once, forming a box-shaped frame.

The stand is welded to the metal sheet frame.

Attach parallel to the steering rack to the rack, a vikorist section of blackened steel.

Insert a section of the kerma shank axis with gear into the side hole of the rack body.

The flywheel is welded to the free end of the shank.

The flywheel can be repaired as if it were an old one. At the end of the drop, the flywheel can be prepared with your own hands. For this, two sections of smooth reinforcement are welded in the shape of a cross. Handles are installed at the ends of the flywheel.

Brackets made of steel are welded to the steering rack body. The lower bracket is equipped with a ring rim with lugs.

As an excuse, stretch the neck of the electric drill.

Attach a clamp to the top bracket to strengthen the drill body.

Install the drill.

The maximum height of the tip of the drill above the bed is set in the range of 120 – 150 mm.

In order to manually control the switching on and switching of the instrument, the life switch should be opened with a single-contact switch.

Video of assembling a workbench based on a kerma lath:

Belt driven

Such a design is used if the cartridge drive operates behind the pass transmission mechanism of the wrap around the adjacent electric motor. The motor is placed on the same frame with a clamping drill chuck. Behind the help of the belt, the wraparound rotor is conveyed to the motor through the pulleys to the cartridge.

The device of the frame movement unit can be applied to the above-described options by the design of the worktops or, depending on the resourcefulness of the home master.

Mini verstat

For robots with different parts and different circuit boards, you need to manually craft them with a small drilling machine. For this purpose it is necessary to add a chuck for fastening drill bits ø 0.5 – 6 mm. A 12-volt motor is selected in the engine compartment.

The fastened engine with a cartridge installed before the rotary assembly of the machine can take many different shapes. The main thing is that the workman’s hands are practically not occupied with drilling. This gives freedom for precise placement of other parts and boards under the drill.

Kinder box

Do not rush to throw away the plastic egg that contained the Kinder surprise. With its help, you can not only save children's Chupa Chups, which the baby did not eat right away (video).

Put your headphones in them. This way they won't get tangled up, and the next time you want to listen to your favorite music, you won't have to spend a lot of time trying to untangle them.

Lazy steering wheel made by yourself

We’ll look at how to make a lazy steering wheel yourself below. To mount the lazy bar on the steering wheel, you need to choose a place to mount it.

Then, using a clamp, you should select the diameter of the car's steering wheel. In this case, seals will come to the rescue. Basically, it is installed in places at ten and two o'clock, at eight and four o'clock, and also on top.

If you use it every day, the second option is perfect. It will be more convenient to drive and change gears.

It is important to secure it correctly so that it does not slip. It is also worth choosing the thickness of the seal correctly, then the handle will not have deviations.