Homemade tools and appliances. What can you do useful things from?

The various tools needed to work in the garden or when doing repairs in the room are quite expensive. In addition, the master wants to improve them. In fact, in the sheds, on the balconies, in the garage, a large number of all kinds of details seem to be unnecessary. Of these, you can make the necessary working equipment. In this article, we will examine what kind of self-made tools and devices are available, and what can be done from them.

Small parts

Masters, fond of woodcarving, can make for their work a small chisel from the usual knitting needle from the umbrella. It has a semicircular shape, resembling a spoon. Its tip will need to be sharpened and a knob attached to the spoke. It, in turn, is made of polyethylene things that are melted in a heated oven, put in a liquid state in a tin form and pushed into the hot mass of the end of the needle.

Useful self-made tools and devices can be made from a conventional writing rod, for example, an oil can. To do this, remove the ball, insert the rod into the hole made in the bottle from the lighter. Oil on the hose will be fed slowly and portionwise.

Homemade tool for garage

Often, skilled craftsmen arrange a workshop in the garage, as a balcony and a home pantry, in connection with a small area, allow only to store the necessary tools, and that's not all. To work in a garage room, you should always have an extension cord at hand and store it there. This device can be made by yourself. To do this, you need two discs made of plywood, which should be bolted together. On the bolts between the circles, put on the tubes and fasten. The wire will be wound on them. The bolt heads must be drowned so that the handle of the extension cord does not touch them when rotating. On the other side of the coil, cut out a hole the size of a socket cup, which is then placed in it. Secure the box to the drive with small screws. As a handle, you can use a wooden door handle.

Using motors

Making self-made tools and devices, you can use engines from failed vacuums and washing machines. For example, such complex equipment as lathe or grinding machine. For this purpose, fasteners and a shaft are welded to the motor, on which a circular saw, grinding wheels or other devices are mounted. For polishing, you can use an electric shaver, mixer or small fan, attaching a felt to the shaft. If you replace the blade with a drill, you get an electric drill. In the same way, you can make a screwdriver, replacing the shaft on the rod from a screwdriver. The necessary homemade tools and appliances are obtained from plastic bottles. For example, glasses, hangers, funnels, scoops and other items.

Homemade tool for the garden

Most gardeners decorate their areas with annual flowers. It is beautiful and attractive, but during the landing there are difficulties. Small seeds, planted in a row, strongly thicken, as they are sown not in batches. It is necessary to thin them repeatedly, which traumatizes the root system. In this case, a mechanical seed drill, which is controlled manually, will help. The device has a box for seeds, a dispenser, wheels and a handle. Seeds from the body through the cutout fall into small holes located on the rod - dispenser. When moving, the shaft is scrolled, and the seeds in turn fall to the ground. The order is due to the fact that the recesses on the shaft are drilled evenly at a certain distance from each other. Varying the diameter and pitch of the holes, seeds of various sizes can be sown. The brush, located on the front wall of the body, regulates the number of seeds falling into the ground. Wheels of steel are attached from both sides of the rotating cylinder. A few cuts are made along the circumference of the disc, which will allow the steel to bend, creating petals. This will help improve the adhesion of the device to the soil.

Device for cutting foam plastic

When building or repairing a house, a large amount of equipment is needed, which is simply impossible to buy due to the amount of work, as well as a shortage of cash. I have to use homemade machines and tools. When warming the walls of the building you need a device that helps to cut the foam on even pieces. To buy the cut material in the sheets is unprofitable because of the many cuttings that will have to be thrown out. Therefore, buying a foam cube, and making a machine, you can cut the insulation yourself. This requires a small transformer with a power of 250 watts. Also need a nichrome spiral, taken from an electric hotplate and stretched into a string. Spring to tighten the spiral, two pins and a table top. The transformer will incandesce a nichrome thread, with which you can easily cut the foam. It should be noted that the cutting process can not be stopped, since the heated spiral will melt the heater in an unnecessary place. Work with this machine is necessary in a room with good ventilation.

Do not rush to clean the garages and storerooms from broken tools. Fantasize, create, improve, using broken devices. This will save you money and also make a tool for you, and you will need it.