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If you have an old Compressor sitting in the workshop, especially one that has been around for years quietly doing its job, it is worth asking a slightly uncomfortable question: what does the inside of the tank actually look like?
And is it still safe to use?
My workshop doesn’t have any built in lighting, and working by lamp light was really hard work due to all the shadows created by the lamps.
I couldn’t find any information about whether you could use LED strip lights to effectively light a workshop, so I made a video all about it.
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Part 2 of a 4 part series where I show you how to make your very own CS:GO C4 Prop…
In this series I will walk you through how to 3D print a CS:GO C4 game prop, including download links for all the 3D files as well as the full source code for the Arduino software that makes it work.
In this episode we look at the 3D model for the prop in Fusion 360, talk about the hardware, how to 3D print it and how to put it all together.
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Making a Demagnetizer From an Old Motor Without Letting the Magic Smoke Out – PART 2
Making a demagnetizer from a salvaged motor sounds delightfully simple right up until you remember that mains electricity and motor windings can turn a cheerful workshop project into a small electric heater in very short order. The basic idea works, but the trick is getting a strong alternating magnetic field
1mm Is Not a Mil
Here is a funny little trap in engineering that can catch you out if you are not careful. I had always assumed that a mil was simply a casual way of saying millimetre. In the UK, that is how many of us use it in the workshop. If a part
How the US Inch Was Based on Metric, and Why the Inch Changed Size
It sounds a bit daft at first, but there was a time when an inch was not quite the same inch everywhere. If you were in Britain, one official inch was used. If you were in the United States, the official inch was ever so slightly different. Not enough to
How to Make a Tool Demagnetizer from a Dead Food Processor Motor – PART 1
I needed to make a tool demagnetizer for a very simple reason. I’d done something a bit daft. A while back I was measuring some rather enthusiastic neodymium magnets with my nice Mitutoyo calipers. As you can probably predict, that was not one of my finer moments. The calipers became
Easily set lathe tool height with a quick method using basic tools
If you want to Easily set lathe tool height without faffing about with elaborate gadgets, this is a handy method to keep in your back pocket. It is quick, uses tools most lathe owners already have, and is especially useful in a home workshop where you just want to get
Upgrade mini lathe friction dials in 5 minutes flat
If you want to Upgrade mini lathe friction dials without turning it into a heroic engineering project, this is one of those little jobs that pays back immediately. It is not a massive fault, and the lathe will certainly work as supplied, but it is exactly the sort of small
How to Sharpen a Drill Bit by Hand Without Power Tools or Grinders
If you want to know how to sharpen a drill bit without dragging out a bench grinder, this is a simple little workshop method that works surprisingly well. It is not meant to replace proper grinding for badly damaged drills, and it is not about producing some mythical perfect drill
Flattening a Plane Sole: Should You Do It With the Iron Fitted?
Flattening a Wood Plane Sole is one of those subjects that seems to attract a surprising amount of firm opinion. Ask whether you should flatten a plane with the iron fitted or removed, and you will usually get two confident answers that completely disagree with each other. The common claim
Mixing Hammerite Paint: How to Make Any Colour You Like with a Simple Colour Wheel
Mixing Hammerite Paint sounds obvious once someone says it out loud, but for quite a while it genuinely did not occur to me. I needed a pale green for a restored Abwood milling vice, and later for my hand shaper project, only to discover that the standard Hammerite range is
MAKE YOUR OWN CS:GO C4 PROP - PART 1
In this four part video series I show you how to make your very own 3D printed Arduino based CS:GO C4 Prop.
Arm the device by entering the bomb code, the countdown to zero begins… Will the terrorists win? Or will CT defuse the bomb in time and be home in time for tea and medals?