To keep your home comfortable and convenient, you need sophisticated technology. It greatly facilitates domestic work, but certain skills and knowledge are necessary for its maintenance. Not everyone knows all the possibilities of modern tools and do not fully use them. If you change them a little, you can get convenient home-made tools for the workshop.
If you gradually acquire models of popular brands, they will turn out to be durable and reliable assistants. In addition, devices are needed to locate and secure the blanks during processing. In the country, it will be a joiner's workbench.
As the inventory of the home master accumulates, it should be sorted into groups:
- metalwork and carpentry tools;
- appliances;
- electrical equipment.
Do-it-yourself appliances allow you to place everything : racks, drawers and cabinets. Keeping your equipment clean and tidy makes it possible to create a comfortable working environment and ensure long-term safety of tools.
Homemade woodworking tools
Woodworking is most common in the household. Useful home-made tools for the workshop primarily include a workbench. It should be comfortable in height. Its lid is located at the level of bent palms. If you need to raise it, from the bottom on the dowels set the bars of the desired thickness.
Production of a modern workbench
The classic workbench consists of a cover with front and rear vise. This design is more suitable for manual work. It is poorly adapted to work with power tools due to the fact that the workpiece can be difficult to fix. You can buy a modern compact workbench MASTER cut 1000 worth 12 thousand rubles, which is folding. You can install hand tools on it: a circular saw, a jigsaw and a milling cutter. But then it will have to be redone. The Festool MFT 3 workbench has good characteristics. However, the price of 30 thousand rubles makes you think. The master will be able to make home-made appliances for the home workshop that work just as well.
To make a workbench, you need even plywood without knots. The thickness must be at least 20 mm. By installing a jigsaw on it from below, it will be possible to saw boards and small bars along, across, at an angle, as well as complex curved profiles. The tool performs additional functions of circular and band saws.
First a countertop is made. An arcuate groove is cut in it to install a guide for the workpieces, which can be mounted at any angle. A guide with a slot is also made under the jigsaw. Its width is selected according to the size of the sole of the tool.
Sawn boards from plywood and stick them to the countertop to give it rigidity. The legs of the workbench are made of bar. You can make a metal frame, and then attach a countertop to it with screws. Then the design will turn out easy and strong. The guides below are attached to the countertop with furniture nuts.
The jigsaw is installed at the bottom of the workbench - upside down. Only the nail file is visible from above. For the convenience of using a jigsaw, an additional switch is installed. The guide should also be easily removable so that the tool file can be easily replaced. For easy access to the underside, the countertop can be hinged.
A workbench takes up little space and can even be installed at home. For this, it is made folding so that it can be easily disassembled and put into a closet or pantry.
How to make a workbench for a summer residence
To work in the country or in a country house, you need a powerful workbench. The countertop is knocked together from a thick edged board up to 2 m long. It will not be superfluous if it is additionally fixed with self-tapping screws. Below the perimeter, the countertop is sheathed with timber. The table legs make a square section of 120x120 mm. They can be buried in the ground or attached to a reinforced concrete base. The whole structure is treated with an antiseptic and covered with drying oil.
When the workbench is installed, do-it-yourself fixtures are mounted on it: guides, workpiece mounting devices and power tools.
How to make a pipe bender with your own hands
In the farm, it is necessary to have a device for bending metal pipes and profiles. The simplest home-made tool for bending pipes with a diameter of up to 20 mm is a steel plate with welded pins. By inserting a workpiece between them, it can be bent to the desired curvature. In such simple devices, the pipe is crumpled at the bend. To prevent this, it is necessary to densely fill the pipe with sand. It will also help to heat it with a blowtorch, which any master has.
Instead of pins, 2 profiled rollers and a locking element are used to improve the quality of the bend. You can also make a special profile from a steel corner and plate and fix it on a workbench with a solid base. In the picture, the structure is attached directly to the boards. You can make it portable by mounting it on a steel sheet and securing the bottom of the countertop. Then the pipe bender, which is rarely used, will not interfere with carpentry. A portable device, like other home-made workshop accessories, can be used in a garage. It is convenient to fix it there, and it may be needed not only for pipes.
Homemade Circular Saw
Brand machines have high prices, and a homemade tool for a home workshop is quite suitable for a private user. It can be a circular saw made on the basis of manual, cheaper models.
The workbench for circular must be stable. A bed with a slot for a disk is mounted on the countertop. As a material, a sheet of metal or solid wood that is able to withstand heavy loads is best suited. It has a small thickness, which makes it possible to use most of the disk and saw products of sufficient thickness. In addition, the tool itself and the fixture for machine tools are attached to the bed. The guide rail is made sliding on steel or aluminum rails, or is fastened with clamps.
A hand saw is installed at the bottom of the countertop on the bed. You can also use a grinder or drill, but they are not so effective and do not allow the use of the entire working area of the disk. The mount can be anything if only it is reliable.
When working with a circular saw, remember that it has high revolutions and that safety rules must be observed.
Homemade Bow Saw
Homemade woodworking tools can be very simple but effective. These include a bow saw. Thin blade makes it possible to quickly cut a large log. It is easy to replace with a new one when the saw becomes dull. A beam saw can be made independently from 3 blocks of durable wood. Two handles with cuts at the ends are connected in the middle by a cross-beam using a thorn-socket connection. The blade is inserted into the slots and fixed with two nails. On the other hand, it is stretched using a rope loop thrown around the handles and twisted by a knob.
How to sharpen a knife
Manual sharpening for knives is more effective, since a strong cutting edge is obtained. To facilitate the process, a home-made device is widespread. It is a rod with a clamp for a bar, a base for fixing the knife and a rack for adjusting the angle of installation.
When the reciprocating movement of the rod with a bar fixed on it, the blade is sharpened. The abrasive surface is pressed against the blade only when moving from the heel to the tip. By slightly changing the design of the base of the knife sharpener, you can also edit the edges of carpentry tools.
Homemade Garage Accessories
The garage is not only a place to hide a car, but also a workshop where you can store tools and carry out repairs.
Shelves and shelving
Do-it-yourself order in the garage . To do this, make a rack, which is usually placed on top. Then it will not interfere with movement inside. From below, a small workbench is installed for work, in which tools are also stored. It is most convenient to place everything near the rear wall of the garage. Then the side passages will be free.
The viewing hole is laid out with brick or concrete is cast, and then closed with a lid so that it does not interfere with the passage.
Puller manufacture
Normal work with the car is done using a standard set of tools. Craftsmen make special equipment. A puller is often required to tighten bearings. The most convenient is a three-valve design. A standard device may not be enough. If you make a puller with your own hands, it will last for many years.
Small devices are made of steel sheet 10 mm thick. A pattern is made on it and the legs are cut out with a gas cutting. They are processed on an emery machine, adjusting the size. The core is turned on a lathe from a round log, the foot holders are welded, the thread for the winder is cut and the necessary holes are drilled. The paws are held on bolts with a diameter of 8-10 mm.
The work of making a puller requires working skills with many tools. Helpers may be needed here. A convenient solution is the manufacture of removable legs of the desired configurations, which can be changed on the product purchased in the store.
Conclusion
Home-made tools for the workshop can solve many problems in the household and auxiliary household with minimal effort and cost.