Tools and fixtures for construction and repair

Tools are needed always and everywhere: when building or renovating a house, apartment, summer cottage. Any more or less serious business is not complete without these things. It seems that there are no problems: any tool is on sale, go and buy it. And so it is. There is everything in a large assortment. The problem is that the choice is so wide that it is very easy to get lost. What could be easier than buying a paint brush? But when you come to the store, it turns out that this is not at all easy: different brush widths and pile lengths, the pile itself is natural, and sometimes synthetic, and synthetics are made of several types of fibers, which hold the pile together in several ways. The situation is approximately the same with the handle: what material, what length, width, straight or inclined ... Not easy. And this is a brush. How many more sophisticated equipment and fixtures?

If you can somehow figure it out intuitively with a hand tool, then if we are talking about a power tool, it is impossible to do without a minimum amount of knowledge. There are many characteristics, and you need to understand all of them. Otherwise, it may turn out that the purchased tool is not suitable for the work for which you bought it.

The section "Tools and fixtures for construction and repair" contains articles on the choice of different fixtures, devices and tools. And complex, technological, expensive, and simple, uncomplicated, cheap. Correctly selected they greatly facilitate construction work. Good luck!

For some work, you have to tighten a lot of screws. You can, of course, do this manually with a screwdriver, but this requires considerable effort and takes a long time. To speed up the process, you need to choose a screwdriver. There are quite inexpensive models - household ones - which, nevertheless ...

How to use a multimeter to measure voltage

The home craftsman periodically needs to measure the parameters of the circuits. Check what voltage is currently in the network, whether the cable is frayed, etc. For these purposes, there are small devices - multimeters. With their small size and cost, they can measure various electrical ...

Snail Cold Forging Tool - for curling

One way to decorate plots is to use forged products. Fences, benches, gazebos, stair railings and other similar structures look very decorative. Moreover, in most cases, these products are not forging in its traditional sense. Most often this is not done ...

Two-body homemade plow for a mini tractor

When cultivating land, one of the most tedious operations is plowing and preparing for sowing. If you have equipment - a walk-behind tractor or a mini-tractor - everything can be shifted to them, but a plow is needed for plowing. Buying ready-made is too expensive. Prices …

General view of the device for sharpening knives

It is quite difficult to sharpen a knife by hand correctly. It will take some time to develop the habit of maintaining a constant sharpening angle, which is not easy at all. A knife sharpening device can make the task easier. There are factory options. But for good copies you have to pay off a couple of hundred dollars, and this is clearly ...

Nail lining, film or vapor barrier to the crate, upholstery or chipboard to furniture - all this can be done by a construction stapler. This device is also called staple gun, stapler, nailer, staple gun and tacker.

Miracle shovel Digger

There is a lot of work in the garden and in the garden, but the most exhausting one is digging the land, cultivating it and removing weeds. They begin to dig ahead of time, in small sections, since the load is too large. Reduce the complexity several times and at the same time speed up the process by at least ...

Tap and die

To cut an internal thread on a part, you must first drill a hole. Its size is not equal to the thread diameter, but should be slightly smaller. You can find the diameter of the drill for the thread in a special table, but for this you also need to know the type of thread.

Small manual bending machine for self-production

A lot of products are made from sheet metal - drainage systems, shaped parts for sheathing roofs covered with corrugated board or metal tiles, ebbs for a basement, corners for structures made of corrugated sheet, etc. All this can be done by a special bending machine - for sheet metal. How …

This is what a screw auger looks like

When building a house and arranging a site, it is often required to make round holes in the ground. They are needed when arranging a fence - for installing poles, when building gazebos, installing arches and other light household structures. The same pits, but with a larger diameter and depth ...

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