And do-it-yourself garage accessories can be made by any motorist. Such homemade products allow you to competently use the space, choose a convenient place for your tools, and not put them anywhere, and not spend money on buying expensive professional equipment.
Tool storage rack
If the garage has accumulated a lot of tools and other garage fixtures, then the rack will be an ideal place to store them. If it is present in the garage, a lot of free space is formed, and the motorist will not spend a lot of time trying to find the right tool.
The rack is easy to make yourself. Usually it is made of metal or wood, but the first option is too difficult at home, although it is more reliable, so motorists often stop at the second option.
To extend the life of the rack, you need to choose strong woods such as oak or beech for its manufacture. A rack made of such material can withstand a load of up to 180 kg. In practice, this weight is often exceeded. However, it should be borne in mind that the rack on which tools weighing more than 300 kg are stored is a danger to the motorist.
Do-it-yourself garage shelving is easy to make according to the following algorithm:
- The rack supports are made first. To do this, a board 9 cm wide is cut into parts of different sizes.
- For the manufacture of shelves, a thicker board is needed. It is cut into equal parts of the required width.
- On the board, which will be the basis of the rack, mark the points where the spacers will be located. From them to the edge of the board should be 3 cm.
- The top support is attached with superglue, then the shelf is nailed to it. The same must be done with the remaining supports and shelves.
- Then the base of the rack is attached to the spacers with the help of screws.
At the end, the surface of the rack is sanded with sandpaper and oil varnish is applied to it in two layers. It is attached to the wall with anchor bolts located under the top and bottom shelves.
Shelves
If it is not possible to put a rack in the garage, it is easily replaced with shelves. They can be hung at any height and save space on the floor.
First of all, you need to determine where the shelves will be located. The selected area is divided into squares of equal size. At their corners there will be dowels holding the shelves. For a more secure fixation of the shelves, it is better to use dowels with hooks at the ends.
Then holes for fasteners are made in the wall with a puncher. Hangers with lugs are attached to a thin board. The distance between them depends on the markup made earlier. Self-tapping screws are needed to fix metal hangers.
In order to make the bottoms of the shelves, several boards are cut into equal parts. The walls are made from thicker boards. They are attached to the bottom with nails or glue. Finished shelves can be painted or varnished.
Now it remains only to place the shelves on the wall. When installing, you need to make sure that the shelves do not warp and move easily along the guides. For convenience, wooden handles can be attached to the front walls.
Plastic cans can also serve as material for the shelves. To do this, cut off the side wall of the canister.
To make the work look neater, you always need to cut off either only the right or only the left. Then the edges are processed with a file.
After that, the shelves are placed on the wall or used as drawers in the rack.
Tire bracket
A set of tires is the most bulky part of a car, so it's better to make a separate bracket for storing them, rather than trying to find a place for them on a rack with other tools.
For a garage bracket, you need two triangular frames from a corner, which will be interconnected by jumpers from any rolled metal. Frames are attached to the wall. The tires are located perpendicular to the supporting structure, slightly falling between the jumpers.
Drill universal machine
A car enthusiast needs a lot of different equipment, but it is very difficult to fit them all in one garage. To save space, mechanisms are created that perform several functions.
From an ordinary drill, you can make a home-made machine that works like a grinder, lathe, grindstone, circular saw.
For the base of the machine, a board 2–2.5 cm thick is chosen. A drill is fixed on the part where the handle will be attached. The place for installing the drill is selected depending on the size of the circular disc, cutter, sharpening stone, grinding wheel.
To fix the drill, a rigidly fixed threaded stud and nut are used. Fixation rigidity is achieved by using epoxy glue and a two-millimeter pin. Next, a moving sole is created.
Next, a saw blade with a diameter of 15 cm, on which there should be a protective metal casing, is placed on the drill chuck. A slot is made in the frame. If you plan to use a flat cutter rather than a blade, then it will require an expansion of the saw hole or another rectangular slot.
To create a cutting machine, a swivel bracket, a joiner's miter box, guides and a mechanism that will fix the workpiece are placed on a securely fixed surface.
The cutting mechanism is combined with a circular saw on the base. By the same method, grinding and machine tools are made.
viewing hole
Sooner or later, any car will need repair. And so that its owner does not need to climb under it, they dig an inspection hole in the floor of the garage.
The first step is to make a markup with chalk in the place where the car is parked. In this case, it must be taken into account that the length of the pit should be 1 meter longer than the length of the machine. The width should be sufficient for comfortable work, but less than the distance between the wheels. The depth of the pit depends on the height of the garage owner. Add 20 cm to it.
After calculating the dimensions of the hole and marking, you can dig a hole. The thickness of its walls depends on the material with which its walls will be lined. When using bricks, this figure should be equal to 20 cm, when pouring cement - 12 cm, when installing building blocks - 22 cm.
The walls of the pit need a hydrophobic impregnation that will protect them from moisture. Impregnation is applied to the inside of the material with which the walls are lined.
In front of the pit, steps are made of cement. To make steps of the same size, you need to calculate the height of the rise and calculate their number.
Many men rave about building a comfortable garage, but when the building is finally ready, they think how to make it functional, practical, spacious at the same time.
After all, a motorhome should be used not only for the purpose of storing a car, but also for placing garden tools, tools, additional sets of tires, which will allow you not to clutter up a residential building with these items. To endow such a small space with the described qualities will allow homemade products for the garage: original solutions with a minimum of material costs further.
Arranging a motorhome is not just a one-time selection in the garage with your own hands, pieces of furniture, various storage systems, all kinds of tools, a home master, but a system of measures aimed at rational space planning, giving it high functionality, the maximum level of comfort.
It is important not only to choose the items of the garage interior, but also to arrange them correctly so that it is comfortable to use the space, and the space itself is filled with comfort.
The cool environment inside the garage building is not at all an unattainable dream, but the reality of many experienced car owners. How to do this if there is no big money?
You can think over, design and manufacture unique devices for the garage, which will allow you to rationally solve the issue of storing many items of different size, shape, and purpose inside the building.
Mobile phone alarm.
Do-it-yourself home-made home-made garages allow you to solve many issues related to the storage of specific items inside the motorhome:
- how to arrange tires and wheels so as not to retain the possibility of free movement around the area;
- how to organize a workplace for the purpose of car repair, plumbing work;
- where to store country tools that are important for the economy;
- is it possible to make carriers without owning a drawing, or you can’t do without a homemade scheme for a garage when working;
- how to design a compressor with your own hands: homemade for advanced craftsmen.
We will try to describe the topics raised as detailed as possible below.
Tire and wheel storage
Not a single car owner will be spared the problem of storing off-season "shoes" of his vehicle. Where to put the tires so that they do not clutter up the garage building? If you use the ideas of experienced car owners, solving this problem is not difficult.
The choice of how to store stripper bars is influenced by the nature of their installation. Products with discs should be hung by luggage straps, chains, metal cables with a diameter of 4 mm or stored lying down in piles. Belt fasteners must be of high quality, reliable. They are organized under the ceiling on the wall surface and fixed on the beam located on top.
How to store tires in the garage?
You can also drive pins or hooks into the wall surface, the bend of which is not very large. Products are mounted in increments slightly larger than the diameter of the tire. Choose such a length of pins that such devices for the garage stick out above the tire by 1-2 cm, no more. It’s worth stuffing them not under the very ceiling surface, but a little lower so that the wheels fit in without difficulty.
Tires without rims cannot be stored in piles: only standing. It is better to organize separate shelves by welding a structure from a profiled pipe 20x20 or 30x30 mm. In addition, you can use the corner. The use of a round pipe should be abandoned, as it is difficult to weld with an inverter welding machine.
Make cross bars out of it so that the tires lay down and hold better.
Shelves make the following sizes.
Lead the shelf to the wall where light will not fall on the rubber, otherwise it will deteriorate.
Important! When arranging a motorhome, it is important to adhere to safety rules. If a person is inside the building, opening the doors should occur instantly, without obstacles! No tool storage devices should clutter up the garage excessively, leaving no passage for a person.
Workplace
Most home-made garage fixtures are made by car owners in order to equip a comfortable workplace, as well as create a well-thought-out tool storage system.
Different kinds of shelves, smart shelving are the most popular ways to solve this problem, but there are others. Let's describe the sequence of actions, after which any car owner will be able to create a comfortable working area inside the motorhome.
Bearing remover.
At the initial stage, we will determine where to place the desktop with tools.
There are several options:
- Use the entire width of the far wall under it.
This solution is relevant when the motorhome is quite spacious, characterized by sufficient length, the ability to "steal" somewhere around 1.5 m of the main area. The positive side of this solution is the possibility of a compact arrangement of products. Nothing will interfere with the passage along the vehicle in the garage building. The weak point of such an idea is the fact that a person will have to overcome a decent distance to the desktop in order to take a tool when working on the street. - Apply one of the long walls.
This idea suits a wide garage of small length. Place the table, workbench to the left of the entrance and from the side of the driver's door. It will be much easier to take out the current inventory from the garage, but you will need to carefully move along the car. - Corner table.
It is a good option, as it allows you to rationally plan the space of a free corner. Experts advise: you can increase the functionality of the working area by making one side of the table longer than the other. There will be plenty of space in the garage for the car.
Next, you need to understand which table should be designed. You can use the option of boards sheathed with plywood. Such devices for the garage will cost little money, but at the same time they will be quite comfortable.
If the car owner owns welding, you can make a frame from a corner with your own hands, and then sheathe it with moisture-resistant plywood. More expensive materials can be used if the budget allows.
Where to store small tools? Install shelves under the table surface, make drawers. The second option is more convenient, but it is much more difficult to make shelves. You can pick up ready-made baskets made of plastic with thick walls.
On a note! You can use the original idea and design racks for tools from used canisters with a handle on top. Cut out one of the sides, use the canister as a box.
Tool storage
It is very important to organize the storage of tools for the garage, cottage, car service. in such a way that everything lay according to the chosen order, was always at hand, and was quickly available for work.
You can prepare homemade closed boxes, but with such a storage system it is difficult to remember where a particular thing is. If you do not return the tool to its place, after a while it will be extremely difficult to find it: you will need to open the structure and search through the contents of all the boxes.
There are several ideas for storing small things and tools rationally:
Metal wire mesh 2 mm with 10 cm cage
It is attached to the wall surface, biting off, bending some twigs. Having created original hooks, supplementing the cage with crossbars, you can use it for storing small items. Special hooks are sold in stores that can be attached to the net if you do not want to make them yourself.
Making a special shelf for screwdrivers
Take a board or plywood with a thickness of 15 mm. Sand the material well so that nothing remains from touching it. Next, drill one or more rows of holes of different diameters. If the width of the board allows, make some holes large. They fit a chisel, hammer handles.
On a note! Be sure to clean the resulting chips with sandpaper. Such a shelf is hung on the wall using a conventional bracket.
Pliers, pliers and wire cutters
Creating a board for pliers, pliers, wire cutters. Such inventory is extremely difficult to store in a convenient way. Sometimes they are hung on a grid, but this is inconvenient. It is better to attach a narrow board to the wall on which you put the tool. To achieve comfortable use, one side of the board needs to be ground off. Then in the cut it will look like an isosceles triangle, and the tool will sit more securely.
Accumulators and batteries
To store tools on batteries, chargers and spare batteries for them, it is worth making a box with a transverse shelf. Make cuts of different formats at the bottom of the box and insert a power tool into it, and use the transverse shelf, the lid of the box as ordinary shelves.
Homemade Garage Carriers
Even a well-lit motorhome is characterized by one drawback: it is dark under the bottom of the car, almost like at night. To create illumination of this zone, it is worth using portable carriers for the garage. These are the simplest, but very useful gadgets for the garage, which are easy to make with your own hands.
The design of the product is simple: a cartridge with a small screen and a hook are attached to the wire. An ordinary incandescent bulb or a housekeeper is inserted into it. In order not to accidentally break the light bulb, it is important to find a convenient place to hang the carrier.
It is also important to choose the location of the light bulb so that the light emitted by it is directed in the right direction. In other words, the system can be improved, and how, we will tell further.
Unbreakable lamp socket
It is important to provide for every little thing in the garage: everything for car repair must be safe. Therefore, it is worth modifying an ordinary cartridge, giving it unbreakable qualities. Make a kind of lampshade from a plastic bottle that will reliably protect the fragile bulb of an energy-saving light bulb.
You can also apply an LED lamp to such a lampshade, and the incandescent lamp will heat up and melt the plastic.
To create a plastic lampshade, you will need to do the following:
- find a translucent bottle with walls of medium thickness;
- organize a window in it 1/4 of the diameter of the bottle itself;
- cut off the neck so that a lamp can be mounted inside the product, but in such a way that the screwed bulb presses it against the cartridge;
- assemble the design, try it out.
Carrying out LED recessed downlight
We continue the rubric "tips from a garage DIY". Another way to refine the usual carrying for work in the garage pit is to replace the incandescent lamp with a flat LED recessed lamp powered by a 220 V network. And we will tell you how to do this from a regular product.
Drawing of an LED lamp.
You will also need a cord with a plug, a piece of plastic window sill, slightly larger than the lamp itself, for mounting a light fixture.
The dimensions are chosen by the car owner at his discretion, and the sequence of work is as follows:
- on one side, cut a hole in the window sill, the diameter of which is smaller than the diameter of the lamp body;
- remove the standard fixture of the device;
- thread the wire through the window sill cells, bring it out into the organized hole;
- connect the lamp;
- glue it to the base;
- cut strips of plastic from the window sill and glue the sidewalls with them;
- bend the bracket from a piece of tin, screwing it with screws to the lamp.
Outcome
The main idea when arranging a building for a car, a country house, which should be followed in work, is rational space planning. Place items in such a way that they are at hand, stored in order.
Interesting and useful homemade products in the garage will help to do this. Then the cottage, the garage will always look neat, and it will be comfortable to be inside the building.
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For the rational use of space, communications and do-it-yourself garage accessories from improvised materials are used. It is necessary to use the walls, the underground level in the process, place it indoors, organize normal lighting.
Homemade garage fixtures
For comfortable operation of the premises intended for storing cars, you should follow certain recommendations:
Depending on the dimensions of the building, the area occupied by equipment, fixtures, communications should not be more than 10 - 20% of the dimensions of the garage floor.
Storage areas, racks, workbenches
In 80% of cases, do-it-yourself garage fixtures are built to store accessories, tools, and car equipment. It should be noted that the most bulky parts of the car are sets of winter / summer tires, depending on the season.
The main nuances of these structures are:
The width of the pit should allow the driver to drive into it without lighting.
Lighting and ventilation
In garages, parallel lighting circuits are more often used. One lamp allows you to use a specific area, several devices are turned on during a major repair, a visit to the cellar. The minimum power consumption is provided. Daylight devices have a large resource.
Cars use poisonous, harmful fuels and lubricants, so do-it-yourself garage ventilation devices are becoming relevant, allowing you to create air exchange. The inflow is organized from below:
- garage - vents in masonry, protected by bars;
- cellar - a pipe from the garage or from the street.
The hood is mounted under the ceiling of the cellar, the roof of the garage or has the form of air vents in the main walls at the highest points.
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Useful do-it-yourself garage accessories can be made from used utensils, inventory, materials left after construction. For example, by gluing the lids of plastic jars horizontally / vertically, the owner gets a convenient transparent dish for equipment or hardware, which is always at hand.
Homemade machines
From the power tool, you can also assemble fixtures for the garage:
- drilling - a drill fixed with clamps in a fixture that moves with a gear along a rail;
- cutting - clamped in a similar way with an angle grinder with a tool for metal or wood;
The advantage of the machines is more precise positioning of the tooling relative to the workpiece. The equipment turns out to be collapsible, the drill and angle grinder can be removed mono, used for its intended purpose.
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Hydropress
The simplest design is obtained from a car hydraulic jack. For pressing out / pressing in bearings, pressing / compressing parts, you will need to build a frame and a removable movable stop. The frame consists of 4 channels welded to each other. At the top, the structure is reinforced with stiffening ribs (kerchiefs), at the bottom, transverse corners are added to give the frame stability.
The stop is pulled up in the normal position to the upper crossbar of the frame by powerful springs. A hydraulic jack is installed between them, as necessary pressing the stop to the lower crossbar of the frame. The force of the press is regulated by a jack, the dimensions of the working area are selected depending on the size of the workpieces.
And finally, a few more examples of useful things for the garage.
Many car owners use their garage as a workshop, gradually filling it with practical devices that facilitate car repair and maintenance. Many of them can be made independently using the recommendations presented in this article.
Many garage workshop fixtures can be made on your own, the video below shows some of them.
Garage homemade products are devices that greatly facilitate garage life, in addition, they work no worse than factory machines. Having equipped your workshop with such devices, you can independently make the necessary parts for cars, as well as various crafts for home or summer cottages.
Video homemade garage tools and fixtures
It is difficult to predict in advance what devices may be needed when carrying out car repairs, however, there are some homemade products, some are used most often. Some of them can be seen in the video below.
Drawings of homemade devices
A pipe bender is a useful household appliance that allows you to bend a metal or polymer pipe at a certain degree. Bent pipes are often used in the construction of greenhouses and greenhouses, installation of heating and other needs. Using the presented drawing, a manual pipe bender can be made independently.
A vise is a practical device used when performing plumbing work. With its help, it is possible to securely fix the part requiring metalwork in a certain position.
This device consists of several parts:
- base plate;
- 2nd lips - mobile and not mobile;
- lever;
- drive screw.
With the help of small-sized metalwork vise, the drawing of which is presented above, it is convenient to sharpen and other processing of small parts.
The presence in the home workshop of a CNC milling machine allows you to perform a number of woodworking tasks.
A homemade milling machine consists of several components and parts:
- bed;
- calipers designed to move cutters;
- caliper guides;
- spindle with installed cutter;
- microcontroller or switching board with microcircuits that automate the operation of the machine;
- electric motor with power supply;
- drivers responsible for transmitting commands from the controller to the electric motor;
- vacuum cleaner for collecting sawdust resulting from the operation of the machine.
A do-it-yourself CNC milling machine allows you to perform engraving and milling work.
Homemade car repair tools
The windshield wiper arm puller is a special tool that facilitates the process of removing the wiper arms. You can make it yourself from a piece of reinforcement, a six channel and a dozen bolt. To do this, using a drilling machine, make holes for 14 and weld 2 nuts on both sides of the hole and a handle from the reinforcement, screw the bolt into the workpiece and, putting on heat shrink, screw in the threaded rivet. The tool is ready.
Another version of the device for shooting wiper leashes is shown in the photo below.
Another useful home-made device with which you can manually re-roll the wheels yourself. Another version of this device can be seen in the photo below.
When carrying out serious car repairs, as a rule, you can not do without a lift. A factory-made device is not cheap, and is not needed very often, so it may well be replaced with a home-made device.
Homemade machines and accessories for the garage
Having made devices for tire fitting and balancing, you can independently perform these works, significantly saving money on car maintenance. In addition, such devices will come to the rescue if it is not possible to come to a specialized tire fitting.
In your garage workshop, you can equip a universal tire fitting machine using improvised materials - metal pipes and a hub.
When doing various crafts for the home, it often becomes necessary to drill an even hole. This is difficult to do with a conventional drill, but if you make a stand for a drill, such as the one shown in the photo, then drilling without distortions will be much easier. This design can be made from various materials. For example:
- from metal;
- from wood.
Using the diagram below, you can independently make a drilling machine from a drill.
The use of a home-made press will allow the garage workshop to manufacture products by pressing. It is possible to make such a device from a hydraulic jack fixed at the top of the bed, which in turn is welded from improvised materials. The pressure in this case is directed downward.
Another version of a homemade press, the design of which involves mounting a jack at the base of the bed. In this case, the process of pressure is produced upwards.
With the help of a home-made press, you can straighten, bend sheets of metal, compress cardboard, fasten individual elements. The video below demonstrates how to make such a necessary device yourself.
Tool storage in the garage
The presence of order is the key to comfortable use of the workplace in the garage. Special organizers are designed to ensure this order in the workplace, allowing you to conveniently store and easily find the tools you need. You can make such devices yourself, using improvised means.
A simple and affordable way to store hand tools is a wall organizer made from tin cans attached to a plywood sheet. In addition, several hooks or nails can be nailed to it in order to conveniently hang measuring and electrical tools. In the absence of cans, PVC pipes of various diameters, cut into pieces and screwed to a sheet of plywood or chipboard, can be used as holders.
It is even easier to make a special tool for storing screwdrivers. To do this, you need to take a wooden block and drill holes in it of the right size. Fix the finished holder on the wall. On the same holder, you can organize a storage system for chisels and a chisel. It is enough to cut special holes in a wooden blank. In the same way, you can make a holder for power tools by sawing the appropriate holes in a wooden shelf.
An interesting way to store tools is suggested in the photo above. Its principle is based on the use of magnetic tapes attached to metal strips. With the help of such a system, it is convenient to store drills, keys and other metal tools.
Convenient and practical organizers for storing screws, bolts, nails and other small things can be made with your own hands from transparent plastic jars with lids. So that they do not take up space, you should attach them by the cover from below to the shelf. This and other ways to store tools allow you to efficiently use the space in the garage and everything you need at hand.
The video below demonstrates how to set up a simple and convenient tool storage system in your workshop or garage.
Homemade woodworking tools for the home workshop
Homemade milling machines can perform one or more operations. Preference, of course, is given to multifunctional devices that save space in the garage workshop. With their help, you can:
make recesses of a certain shape;
drill holes
make grooves;
process workpieces.
The simplest milling machine can be made on the basis of a drill. To do this, it is fixed on a steel profile or in a plywood case, and a rotating clamp is placed opposite it. Processing of details is carried out with the help of special cutters held by hands.
Homemade lathe
Making a lathe with your own hands allows you to make dishes, interior decor and furniture from wooden blanks. Such a device will become an affordable alternative to industrial models, and will help to realize their creative potential. A homemade lathe can be made from individual components and parts:
- an electric motor used as an electric drive of the machine;
- the headstock, which can be an electric grinder;
- tailstock made from a drill;
- stop for incisors;
- transverse guides;
- frame made of metal profiles or beams.
The headstock and tailstock of the lathe are the main working elements, between which a wooden blank is placed. The rotating movement from the electric motor is transmitted to the workpiece through the headstock, while the tailstock remains static, responsible for holding the workpiece. If you equip a home-made lathe with additional devices - a baluster, a trident, a copier and others, then its functionality will increase significantly.
The video below demonstrates how to make a lathe with your own hands.
If you need to drill precise holes in metal, plastic or wood parts, experienced craftsmen recommend using a drilling machine. Unlike a drill, which vibrates strongly during operation, such a device provides a high-quality result, regardless of the material and thickness of the workpiece. You can make a simple drilling machine yourself by using the same homemade drill, but installing it in a vertical position on a frame made of furniture board and attaching it to a metal rack. If necessary, such a machine can be equipped with an asynchronous motor.
As a rule, home craftsmen do not stop at the manufacture of the machines themselves. Very often they work on improving existing equipment.
The video below demonstrates useful accessories for a lathe that expand its functionality.
Homemade metal fixtures for the home workshop
These do-it-yourself fixtures for the home workshop are designed to facilitate the metalworking process. They are usually made from improvised materials and tools.
Among the most popular devices, it is worth highlighting:
- pipe benders;
- presses;
- vise;
- milling, locksmith, turning, drilling and thicknessing machines;
- devices for sharpening drills, knives and other tools.
With their help, a home craftsman can make practical devices for a summer residence, a garage, and also equip a comfortable home. Examples of useful machines and devices in the household can be seen in the photo below.
Homemade cutting machine for metal
How to make some useful household appliances, the video demonstrates.
Having adopted the presented recommendations and drawings, any home craftsman will be able to make useful gadgets for the garage and machines for his workshop, arrange an ergonomic space in it, and realize his creative abilities.
A variety of accessories for a private garage, designed and manufactured in-house, allow for better and more efficient car maintenance. Their creation requires minimal financial costs. At the same time, home-made equipment, in most cases, is in no way inferior to expensive factory counterparts in terms of its capabilities.
Stand for an electric drill - simplify the drilling process
In a private garage, over time, more and more various tools and equipment used to service a vehicle appear. The owner should ensure their convenient and rational storage in such a way that the most necessary devices are always at hand, and rarely used ones are hidden away. To solve this problem, you need to draw an elementary sketch and create shelves or on it. There are a lot of ready-made options for such designs on the Internet. And it’s not difficult to come up with a shelving system yourself.
More problems arise when any rare garage DIY is required. For example, many car owners use an electric drill when servicing a car and doing various household chores. Often, with its help, it is required to make perfectly even holes with axes strictly perpendicular to the plane of the workpiece. Anyone who has tried to achieve such a result knows that it is not at all easy. As a rule, holes are obtained with distortions. A stand for a drill allows you to solve a similar problem. To build it with your own hands, you need to stock up:
- a bar or a calibrated tube;
- a platform from a milling cutter (manual), which has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time due to its deterioration;
- sheets of plywood.
It is allowed to use another suitable platform as a base for the rack. The main thing is that it be even and have areas where you can install new long guides. The function of the latter in our case will be performed, as you already understood, by metal bars or calibrated tubes. The process of building a rack is really simple. Let's describe it.
First, we cut out a box from a sheet of plywood. It must be done clearly according to the geometric parameters of the available drill. Then it is necessary to fix our power tool for drilling holes in the box prepared for it as securely as possible. Fixing is best done using special wing nuts. After that, we make two holes in the box and pass tubes (rods) through them - guides. We mount a handle on top of them. With its help, we will move the drill to drill holes vertically.
Advice. If you want to control the depth of drilling, it is advisable to additionally equip the structure with a quick-clamping latch. It will play the role of a drill limiter. All the described works for a more or less experienced home master will not cause the slightest problem. And in the end, we get easy-to-use and very useful home-made equipment.
Mini knife sharpening machine - reliable and compact
Now let's try to make a device that will allow you to sharpen kitchen and any other knives. We act like this:
- 1. We take an unnecessary sheet of metal (in any garage, it is always lying somewhere in the corner and waiting in the wings).
- 2. We fix a threaded bolt in its lower part, and weld a small corner on top of the metal plate.
- 3. We put a nut on the bolt thread. It performs the function of a hinge for the lateral movement of our device. With it, you can change the angle of sharpening knives.
- 4. We weld another one to the described nut. We got a ready-made hole for the stem in the bolt. It is easy to make from thin wire.
The clamp in the machine is the top of the sheet. We make two holes in it. We attach a clamp to the bed. Then we cut another hole. It must be through (common for the plate and the clamp). Next, we make a thread in the bed, taking into account the length of the bars for turning. They are optimally made from artificial diamonds. More wear-resistant and at the same time quite inexpensive product in nature does not exist. And we will make clamps for bars in a couple of minutes from a piece of ebonite or plexiglass.
It remains only to drill an additional hole on the plate, placing it away from the knife, and cut the thread for the bolt with which the tightening will be performed. A compact and high-quality sharpening tool is ready! We put it on a shelf in the garage and use it as needed. Machines made according to the described scheme can be taken with you even on a hike. Such garage sharpeners weigh a little, take up a minimum of space.
Crane-beam for the garage - we will facilitate the repair of the vehicle!
Maintenance and simple car repairs in a home garage are greatly simplified if there is a crane in the room. Look at the photo below. It shows how convenient and useful a garage structure can be constructed without much effort.
We will make a transverse bar from a pipe with a cross section of 10 cm, supports for it - from pipes of 11 cm. Important! Homemade racks are recommended to be made from square profile pipes with dimensions of 10x10 cm. They will provide the fixture with good stability. We attach the bar to the supports with M16 bolts (you can also take other fasteners), we fix the bevels and the base with a 10x10 cm corner.
In the nearest construction store, we purchase a lifting cable. We take the rollers for it from the drive mechanism of the elevator doors. Notice! The rollers must be well fixed. This operation is best performed using a narrow (5 cm) metal strip. The lifting of objects on the crane-beam will be provided by a worm hand winch. And don't forget to attach another set of rollers to the uprights. They will allow you to easily move the beam crane around the garage.
Do-it-yourself compressor - homemade for advanced drivers
Workbenches, hanging shelves and other useful crafts for and storage of inventory can be built by any motorist. It is more difficult to make machines and special equipment with your own hands. But with the right approach to business, it is really possible to cope with such tasks. Let's assemble a compressor that can be used to purge the components and mechanisms of a vehicle, paint a car, and control tire pressure.
We will need a 10-liter air receiver (a device with a slightly larger or smaller volume will do), a refrigeration unit (old, not used for a long time), and also:
- adapters;
- inexpensive filter regulator (feel free to buy the cheapest one);
- oxygen manometer for the receiver;
- fastening clamps;
- hose (approximately 200 cm), designed for 20 bar pressure.
The compressor assembly process is elementary. The receiver has outputs at the bottom, in the middle and at the top. The lower one is necessary for draining oil and condensate, the middle one is for installing a pressure gauge. A stream of compressed air is supplied through the upper consumer. We connect all the required elements to the outputs of the device, fix them with clamps. We connect the filter regulator to the receiver panel. Next to it there will be a button to start the unit. The maximum pressure of the regulator on a homemade device should not exceed eight atmospheres, the minimum - two.
It is advisable to additionally equip the compressor with an emergency valve. This inexpensive element will guarantee the completely safe operation of a homemade device.
The made compressor will be placed near the wall on a rack or shelf. It will not interfere when moving around the garage, being at the same time always at hand by a home craftsman. Advice. The old compressor must be well cleaned of rust before use. And then buy an aerosol can of paint and paint the unit.
Pulley for adjusting the speed of homemade machines and other crafts
We will briefly describe other popular tricks that are easily made from old tools and unnecessary things. Let's make, for example, a pulley for any machine tool available in the garage. The material for its assembly can be textolite, metal, plywood sheets. The last option is the easiest:
- 1. We cut out two larger circles and one smaller one in a plywood blank. The holes made in diameter must correspond to the cross section of the shaft installed on the machine.
- 2. We put all the circles on the screw, use the nut to tighten them firmly. Instead of this fastener, a good glue is allowed. It will securely fix all the elements in a single design.
- 3. Additionally, we tighten the details of the craft with screws.
- 4. With a file or sandpaper, we process a home-made pulley, apply a couple of layers of drying oil to it.
- 5. After drying, we put the made device on the cartridge of any mini-machine (let's say an electric drill). And we use the tool for our own pleasure, because now we can choose the speed of its rotation and control the load on the electric motor of the unit.
If necessary, actually make a toothed pulley. To do this, it is enough to cut narrow grooves (tubules) in a small circle. This part of the operation must be completed before assembling the pulley.
If you have an electric jigsaw that is not being used due to a broken saw blade holder, there is no need to send it to a landfill. There are little tricks to give the instrument a second life. On its platform, it is really possible to assemble a simple desktop jigsaw. We take a square of metal, solder a bolt into it. We get a new file holder! Solder it to the old holder.
Then we make a stationary desktop. We take a plywood sheet, cut it to the size of a jigsaw. We attach a wood rack to the back plane of the working surface (we use hard varieties), we install furniture legs on the front. Next, we mount the working structure on a suitable base plate. Use the restored and improved jigsaw for health.
