Garage crafts. DIY garage fixtures: ideas and tips for creating. Other Helpful Ideas

14.05.2020

A garage is more than just a place to park a car. It is also a workshop, and a place of rest, and an interest club. Therefore, the arrangement of the garage should be convenient and thoughtful. In a small area, you need to place a lot of things, and it should be convenient to use them. This will help homemade for the garage. What people do not do with their own hands. From an elementary shelf to a complex device. All this can be made independently. But you need to know how. A few ideas for modernizing the garage and a plan for their implementation in the article.

Homemade for the garage: ideas for arrangement

Arranging a garage is a long process. You can’t do everything right away, you have to constantly modernize something, change, make something new. At the same time, they mainly use homemade products for the garage. It requires less money, and it’s even more fun - making the right thing out of the garbage is worth a lot.

Even in a small area you can fit everything

Tire and wheel storage

Each car owner is faced with the problem of storing off-season "shoes" for the car. Where to stick the tires is a sore point. In general, how tires are stored depends on whether they are mounted on rims or not.

Tire storage methods

So tires with disks can be hung or stored lying down - in the form of a stack, stacking them one on top of the other. For hanging tires, you can use luggage straps, chains, a metal cable with a diameter of 4 mm or more in a polyethylene sheath. Fasten the belts to the ceiling, wall, to the beam located on top.

Polyethylene sheathed cable, ring anchors and tightening clamps

Luggage straps are best attached to rings in the ceiling or hooks on the walls.

Drive pins of sufficient length into the wall, but such that the pin does not stick out of the tire

Not only a pin is suitable, but also a hook with a small bend radius

Another affordable way is to drive pins or hooks with a small bending radius into the wall. The distance between the hooks is slightly more than the diameter of the tires. The length of the pins must be such that they do not stick out of the tire. You can fill them almost under the ceiling so that the wheels fit.

Tires without rims can only be stored standing up. They make special shelves for them. They are usually welded from a profiled pipe. 20*20mm, maximum 30*30mm. You can also use a corner. round pipe it is inconvenient to cook, but crossbars can be made from it - the tires fit and hold better in this case.

Shelf width - 4 times the width of the tire, plus a margin of 10-15 cm for some freedom. Height rear wall- just above the outer diameter of the wheel. The design is simple = the side resembles a right triangle. Having an inverter welding machine, it will not be difficult to weld such a shelf.

Tire storage shelf - a great DIY for the garage

This is a factory version with a completely inhumane price tag. But you can borrow the idea - the crossbars can be rearranged depending on the size of the tires ... you never know

Just welded and painted

Such shelves are usually hung on the wall. But the place must be chosen so that the light does not fall on the rubber - it deteriorates from this. Not the most difficult DIY for the garage, but very useful.

Workplace

Probably the most a large number of homemade for the garage is associated with workplace equipment and tool storage systems. Moreover, shelves and racks in the garage are not the only way to solve this problem. First of all, you need to decide where the workplace will be located. There are three options:

A table or a workbench for a garage is made of boards, sheathed with plywood. Inexpensive, very reliable. If you have a welding machine and reconciliation skills, you can weld a frame from a corner or a profiled pipe. Sewing again is better moisture resistant plywood. This results in a smooth, abrasion-resistant surface. You can, of course, use laminated chipboard, but the laminating layer is quickly damaged.

U-shaped workbench for the garage

To prevent the place from “walking”, you can install shelves under the tabletop or make drawers. Boxes are more convenient, but making them is still a hassle. It is quite possible to make shelves and put boxes knocked out of plywood on them. Plastic boxes and baskets are also suitable. But the walls must be thick.

Drawers can be placed on shelves

By the way, there is a useful idea - to make a rack for storing tools from used canisters. Look for the ones with the handle on top. Further, everything is simple - one of the sidewalls is cut out and in the future this canister is used as a box.

Useful and simple homemade for garage

It is not necessary to make a whole rack - it is still difficult to remember where, what is. But by the same principle, you can make boxes for shelves. By the way, you can stick inscriptions or pictures on the ends (identification is faster with pictures). Such homemade garage crafts bring satisfaction - creating a useful thing from garbage is a pleasant feeling.

Tool storage

The most difficult task is to organize the storage of tools in the garage. It is necessary to make sure that everything is in order, but, at the same time, is at hand and in plain sight. Moreover, closed boxes are suitable only for very organized people who always put the thing they have taken in its place. Otherwise, you will constantly rummage through the boxes, forgetting where everything is. There are several ideas for convenient storage of small items and tools. These are very simple homemade products for the garage.

An ordinary metal mesh will help to quickly solve the problem. A reinforcing mesh made of 2 mm wire, a cage of 10 cm is suitable. Attach it to the wall, bite off some twigs, bend them, make hooks, crossbars, etc. out of them. You can buy special hooks that are attached to the net (available in stores selling commercial equipment), ordinary double-sided hooks that can be bought or made from wire are also suitable.

Grid on the wall - a way to quickly organize tool storage

Screwdrivers are conveniently stored on a special shelf. Take a board, plywood, 10-15 mm thick. The board must be well sanded - so that there are no splinters. Then, in a plane, drill holes of different diameters in one or two rows. If the board is wide enough, you can make larger holes - for chisels or even for hammer handles. Clean all the chips again. Now we need to come up with a wall mount. You can use a regular bracket. Screwdrivers, chisels, and other similar material are inserted into the holes. Convenient, fast, everything.

Idea for storing screwdrivers in the garage

There is also useful homemade for the garage, which allow you to organize storage hand tool. Pliers, pliers, wire cutters, etc. placement is problematic. Can be hung on a net. It is convenient to shoot, but not to hang. But there is a simple solution - attach a narrow board and put a tool on it. To make it fit comfortably, grind off the board on one side. When cut, it should look like an isosceles triangle.

Storage of hand tools in the garage

Another simple idea for storing cordless tools, chargers and spare batteries for them. Make a shelf as in the photo above. Cuts of various formats are made in the lower part, and the upper ones are used as ordinary shelves. The idea is that everything is in one place, quickly gets / installed in place. These homemade garage crafts will make your workplace comfortable. Keeping order will be easy.

Homemade carriers for the garage

Even with very good lighting in the garage itself or during the day on the street, visibility under the bottom of the car is very low. To illuminate the front of work, portable lamps are used - carrying. These are the simplest homemade for the garage. With them, you can start the epic of arranging and equipping the garage space.

The most widespread type of carriers for the garage. Homemade usually make very similar

In the very simple version this is a cartridge attached to a wire, a small screen with a hook can be attached to it. This is such an uncomplicated thing. Light bulbs are used ordinary - incandescent or housekeeper under a standard cartridge. Everything is not bad, except that these bulbs beat very often, you need to look for how to hang them so that they shine in a specific place. In general, the design needs to be improved. There are several modification options.

Unbreakable lamp socket

This plastic bottle shade perfectly protects the fragile bulb of an energy-saving lamp. You can also use an LED lamp, but the incandescence will not work - it heats up too much. The design is ordinary - a cord with a plug and a cartridge at the end.

The main task is to find a plastic vessel with walls made of translucent milky plastic of medium thickness. Transparent will not work - it will not scatter light, too thin walls will not save the lamp from impacts. After you have found a suitable vessel, a trifle remains:

Everything is simple, but such a ceiling allows you to brightly illuminate exactly the right area, the rest of the space is flooded with even light that does not hurt your eyes.

Carrying out LED recessed downlight

The simplest and most common garage homemade products are portable lamps. Without them, it is inconvenient to work not only in a garage pit, but even just on a workbench. You need a flat recessed LED lamp that can be switched on at 220 V. These models are called "pills" because of their shape. Still need a cord with a plug, a piece plastic window sill- to build a lamp. A piece of window sill should be larger than the lamp. Choose your own dimensions. Further actions are:

Everything, homemade carrying is ready. This option is for floor installation. The movable leg allows you to change the angle of inclination. To make it turn over less, a couple of weights can be fixed inside the case (in its lower part).

Attach the carry cord to the ceiling

Conveniences are made up of little things, and very simple homemade products for the garage help in this. For example, you can remove the cable from a portable lamp that is always tangled under your feet. Carrying is usually done with a cheap cable. It is not the most flexible, does not fold well, its coils on the floor fall under your feet. In general, it is inconvenient to use. You can protect yourself and carrying - hang the cable from the ceiling. The solution is simple but very effective.

Here's a "suspension" to the ceiling for carrying, you can do it yourself in an hour

Two anchors with a ring at the end.
Cable tie.
Clamp clamp.
Metal cable. The length depends on the size of the garage - it is necessary from one wall to another.
Steel/plastic rings or steel wire and a piece of pipe to make these rings.
Carry with a long cable - its length is about twice the length of the garage.

The cable is pulled along the long side of the garage. It is more convenient - not far from the "working" wall, where a workbench or other equipment is located. Little work:

Well, that's all. You can use. With such a device, the carrier can be pulled to any end of the garage, while the cable does not get confused and does not cling. Convenient, takes little time.

Do-it-yourself garage compressor

A compressor is needed in any garage. And by the way, this is not the most difficult homemade for the garage. A low-power compressor for a garage for inflating tires and other small jobs can be done with your own hands from auxiliary materials. For example, from the compressor from the refrigerator. For this you will need:

refrigerator compressor;
a sealed container with thick walls (you can use a flask from a fire extinguisher, a small gas cylinder);
safety valve 8 atm;
manometer;
fitting;
oxygen hoses with couplings (choose the length based on the size of your spare parts);
base for the compressor - a thick board, a piece of plywood will do.

In order not to pump any muck into the tires, it is also advisable to put a filter - to separate oils, dust and other contaminants. Scheme homemade compressor presented in the photo.

Scheme of a homemade compressor

The compressor must be equipped with a starting device. We plug it into the network, look into which tube air is sucked in, mark it. You can put a car filter on it - clean air will be pumped.

We assemble an oil separator receiver from a cylinder and a safety valve. To do this, we cut two fittings into the cylinder - for air inlet and outlet. At the inlet we put a safety valve to it with the help of an oxygen hose we connect the compressor outlet.

Homemade compressor for a garage based on a compressor from a refrigerator

We put another car oil filter on the outlet of the oil separator receiver - to remove the oil completely. We connect the filter to the pressure gauge, and from it goes already a hose that is connected to the busbar through an appropriate adapter.

Assembly completed. But in order to carry this device comfortably, everything needs to be fixed in some way. You can weld the frame to size, attach wheels and a handle for easy transportation. One of the compressor options for pumping wheels is described in the video. There is no receiver, but the oil filter performs its functions. You can do it this way, but with a receiver, the design is more reliable.

Since the compressor in the refrigerator is small, it can take a long time to inflate the wheels. It can be made more powerful by installing two compressors that will run simultaneously. Accordingly, the pressure will build up twice as fast. But in such an installation, a more solid security group is required. Such homemade products require a little more equipment, since the circuit is still more complicated.

When creating, almost any owner strives to do something with his own hands, whether it be shelves for parts, a workbench, a gate, ventilation or heating. We will talk about this in this article, namely, how to create all these same garage homemade products.

Lift gate made with my own hands, much better and more efficient than conventional gates on the leaves.

After all, everyone knows how much trouble these sashes cause in winter period when ice accumulates on them, and on the platform behind the gate - a lot of snow. All this gives a lot of difficulties when leaving the car from the garage.

Therefore, such homemade products in the garage as lifting gate on one sash, will be very convenient. The gates are equipped with a special device, thanks to which they rise. It is not necessary to apply great efforts when lifting, since the total weight of the gate is compensated by 2 cylindrical springs.

Work is carried out thanks to a system of levers with springs and rollers that open along the guides. It is thanks to this system that the sash is raised. In this case, the compensating springs are turned outward, and the upper one goes inward (rolling back along the guides).

Construction details: gate frame, opening mechanism, lifting leaf. The assembly mechanism is easy and convenient.

The gate box is assembled quite simply with the help of 2 vertical bars and 1 horizontal one. Vertical bars have a length of 2300 mm and a section of 120x80 mm. Horizontal bars have a length of 2750 mm and exactly the same section. They are connected to each other thanks to squares and metal plates. In the opening, the box is fastened with metal pins having a diameter of 10x200 mm. AT concrete base the lower ends of the racks of the box are deepened by 20 mm.

The sash is made of a plank shield (which is sheathed on the outside with sheet steel), a corner and a frame with ribs. The shield is attached to the frame with furniture bolts with metal strips. The frame is made of rolled steel and has dimensions of 2500 × 2100 mm.

Gate mechanism

When lifting top part the gate moves under the ceiling along the guide rails. The rails consist of steel angles, having a length of 2100 mm and a size of 40 x40 x 4 mm.

The fully fabricated rail is attached at one end to a steel plate for further attachment to the vertically positioned racks of the box. At a distance of 120-150 mm, a section of the channel is attached to the other end of the guides. The guides must be located strictly horizontally. This is achieved by placing a washer between the beam and the channel.

The gate lift is adjusted by means of a spring-tensioned screw. It is important to ensure that the sash is always in a fixed position. The gates are closed with special locks, which are located in the corners of the gate leaf. A handle is provided at the bottom and in the middle, having a height of approximately 20 mm.

Apart from garage doors, homemade for the garage - it's also all kinds of shelves for storing tools. They can be either large, mounted in the far wall of the garage, or small, located on the sides of the room.

Do-it-yourself garage shelves

The simplest and most elementary shelves can be made using cables, which are sold in various hardware stores. They have high strength for hundreds and thousands of kilograms. Sold in a variety of sizes and diameters. Each shelf is held on 4 such cables.

The next detail that is necessary in the manufacture of shelves is a piece of metal or plastic tube. It is necessary to determine the distance between the shelves of the rack. They are fastened with special bushings with a locking bolt. The bolt is screwed into a threaded hole. As a result, the shelf rests on all 4 bushings (on each side).

Such shelves are highly mobile and light, both in terms of weight and in terms of changing the width. You can change the width to whatever you want at any time. However, it is worth remembering that they require good and durable ceilings.

For those shelves that will be attached to the walls, you can use a wire with a thickness of about 4-6 mm, which is sold in any stores that sell metal in coils or cut. A kind of "herringbone" is made along the width of the interceiling space. Accordingly, two identical "Christmas trees" are needed to mount the shelves. For one side and the other.

It is best to make these Christmas trees at the same time (for greater symmetry). You can use the shelf itself as a template. If you create these Christmas tree pendants with some margin, then in the future it is possible to remove or insert additional shelves. Mounting to the wall is carried out thanks to self-tapping screws, brackets or capercaillie.

Perhaps, at first glance, the fragility of this design may seem, but this is not entirely true. In fact, they are very strong and durable. None of its elements can be changed from such a triangle. The angles and lengths of the sides are quite strong and, moreover, elastic.

Making a workbench

In the garage, in addition to various work related to the car, many also produce locksmith, carpentry and other repair work. That's what a workbench with a vise is for. Of course, it is much easier to use an industrial workbench, but a workbench is also used.

The sizes of workbenches and workbenches can be completely different. The height should correspond and have to the convenience of the work performed. The best height is considered when the worker makes it at the level of the center of the palms of the lowered hand.

Making a workbench with your own hands is quite simple. In this case, smooth boards having a thickness of 4-5 centimeters are used. The boards are connected to each other in width. Main constituent parts a workbench is considered to be a recess with a wedge, an emphasis, holes with pegs.

The emphasis is needed to hold materials during the work performed (planing). It is fixed with screws or nails at some distance from the edge on the left side of the table. It looks like a wooden plank about 10-12 centimeters wide, about 20 centimeters long and about 2 centimeters thick. The boards rest against the emphasis with their ends when planing.

The recess is necessary in order to clamp materials in a vertical position. In this case, all materials are attached thanks to the wedge.

Holes with pegs serve for the necessary stop when planing boards with a planer, cross-cutting material and some other processes. At a certain distance from the rear edge, holes are drilled along the entire length of the workbench. The pegs inserted into them are stops, so it is important that they are of small height. Ideally, for products of different heights, you need to have pegs of different sizes.

Directly the workbench table is mounted on 4 legs, which are connected to each other by bars. After it is covered with drying oil to prevent drying out.

Room heater

Do-it-yourself homemade products for the garage are not only all kinds of fixtures for equipment and repairs. It can also be devices for heating and ventilation. Consider an example of equipping a garage with a special stove, which is essential in the winter season.

It is known how often in winter it is necessary to warm up the transmission, and sometimes the antifreeze (with severe frosts). The situation is greatly facilitated when a special heating stove is used, which consumes not so much fuel and at the same time maintains the engine temperature at the desired level.

The principle of operation of such a stove is based on the flow of chemical processes. Heat is released not due to fuel combustion, but due to the fact that on the surface of the heating element, fuel vapors are oxidized by air oxygen.

Stove scheme

The stove consists of a burner, a fuel tank, a cloth or asbestos wick. A heating element is placed in the burner in the form of two metal meshes and a frame impregnated with a catalyst. The wick supplies fuel from the tank to the burner itself. The upper part of this wick opens evenly under the mesh, and the lower part must be on the bottom of the tank.

When pouring fuel into the tank, care must be taken that it does not spill out into the outer part. Fuel should only be inside for safety reasons. After filling the fuel tank, wipe it thoroughly with a dry cloth.

The heater is started at a distance of 25 meters from the machine. It is ignited according to the following principle. First, 50-100 ml of fuel is poured onto the grid of the heating element. Next, it is lit with a match. After the flame goes out, the fuel vapor is sucked from the tank to the heated surface. In the presence of a catalyst under the action of oxygen, they begin to oxidize. The temperature gradually rises and flameless combustion begins.

Often hot spots spread gradually, with a corresponding increase in temperature. Flameless combustion does not immediately cover the entire working area of the burner. If you do not stop this process, then it will continue until all the fuel runs out.

In order to make the heating element, long-fiber asbestos is used. Within one hour, it is impregnated with a catalyst from a solution of platinum chloride or a cobalt-chromium solution. For 100 g of asbestos, 1000 cubic centimeters of solution are needed. The resulting mass is dried, pulled and calcined. The result is a dark and loose asbestos mixture. It is evenly scattered through wire meshes. And for a burner with an approximate surface of 10 dm², the catalyst consumption is about 300 g.

Rules for operating the heater

Keep oil, dirt and water out of the work surface. Compliance with simple technology in the production of the heating element and proper operation will ensure the operation of the device for many years.

Homemade for the garage: ideas for arrangement

Tire and wheel storage

Tires without rims can only be stored standing up. They make special shelves for them. They are usually welded from a profiled pipe. 20*20mm, maximum 30*30mm. You can also use a corner. It is inconvenient to weld a round pipe, but crossbars can be made from it - the tires fit and hold better in this case.

Shelf width - 4 times the width of the tire, plus a margin of 10-15 cm for some freedom. The height of the rear wall is slightly higher than the outer diameter of the wheel. The design is simple = the side resembles a right triangle. Having, it will not be difficult to weld such a shelf.

A tire storage shelf is a great DIY for the garage. This is a factory option with a completely inhumane price tag. But you can borrow the idea - the crossbars can be rearranged depending on the size of the tires ... you never know A tire rack in a garage with limited space. No tires - you can fold the shelf

Workplace

Probably the largest number of garage homemade products is associated with workplace equipment and tool storage systems. And it's not the only way to solve this problem. First of all, you need to decide where the workplace will be located. There are three options:

Full width of the far wall. If the garage is long enough and it is possible to "steal" about 1.5 meters. Dignity - everything is located compactly, at hand, does not interfere with walking along the car. The disadvantage of this solution is that you have to carry tools far if work is carried out on the street.
Countertop and many drawers. The main thing is to remember where everything is.
Along one of the long walls. This arrangement is chosen if the garage is wide, but not long enough. It makes sense to place a table and a workbench to the left of the entrance - from the driver's seat. But this is not critical. The disadvantage of such an arrangement of the workplace in the garage is that you have to move with some caution, but it is more convenient to bring in / take out tools on the street.
The main thing is to place the tools correctly
Taking one of the corners. This is an intermediate option. Moreover, one of the sides can be made longer, the other - shorter.
Putting a desktop in the corner of the garage, and putting a sofa next to it is not a solution to the problem. Taking two adjacent sides is a great idea.

A table or a workbench for a garage is made of boards, sheathed with plywood. Inexpensive, very reliable. If you have a welding machine and reconciliation skills, you can weld a frame from a corner or a profiled pipe. It is better to sheathe again with moisture-resistant plywood. This results in a smooth, abrasion-resistant surface. You can, of course, use and, but the laminating layer is quickly damaged.

Tool storage

Grid on the wall - a way to quickly organize tool storage

There are also useful homemade products for the garage that allow you to organize the storage of hand tools. Pliers, pliers, wire cutters, etc. placement is problematic. Can be hung on a net. It is convenient to shoot, but not to hang. But there is a simple solution - attach a narrow board and put a tool on it. To make it fit comfortably, grind off the board on one side. When cut, it should look like an isosceles triangle.

Homemade carriers for the garage

In the simplest version, this is a cartridge attached to a wire; a small screen with a hook can be attached to it. This is such an uncomplicated thing. Light bulbs are used ordinary - incandescent or housekeeper under a standard cartridge. Everything is not bad, except that these bulbs beat very often, you need to look for how to hang them so that they shine in a specific place. In general, the design needs to be improved. There are several modification options.

Unbreakable lamp socket

Everything is simple, but such a ceiling allows you to brightly illuminate exactly the right area, the rest of the space is flooded with even light that does not hurt your eyes.

Carrying out LED recessed downlight

The simplest and most common garage homemade products are portable lamps. Without them, it is inconvenient to work not only in, but even just on a workbench. You need a flat recessed LED lamp that can be switched on at 220 V. These models are called "pills" because of their shape. You also need a cord with a plug, a piece of plastic window sill - to build in a lamp. A piece of window sill should be larger than the lamp. Choose your own dimensions. Further actions are:

Attach the carry cord to the ceiling

Here's a "suspension" to the ceiling for carrying, you can do it yourself in an hour

Two anchors with a ring at the end.
Cable tie.
Clamp clamp.
Metal cable. The length depends on the size of the garage - it is necessary from one wall to another.
Steel/plastic rings or steel wire and a piece of pipe to make these rings.
Carry with a long cable - its length is about twice the length of the garage.

The cable is pulled along the long side of the garage. It is more convenient - not far from the "working" wall, where a workbench or other equipment is located. Little work:

Well, that's all. You can use. With such a device, the carrier can be pulled to any end of the garage, while the cable does not get confused and does not cling. Convenient, takes little time.

Do-it-yourself garage compressor

refrigerator compressor;
a sealed container with thick walls (you can use a flask from a fire extinguisher, a small gas cylinder);
safety valve 8 atm;
manometer;
fitting;
oxygen hoses with couplings (choose the length based on the size of your spare parts);
base for the compressor - a thick board, a piece of plywood will do.

In order not to pump any muck into the tires, it is also advisable to put a filter - to separate oils, dust and other contaminants. The diagram of a homemade compressor is shown in the photo.

The compressor must be equipped with a starting device. We plug it into the network, look into which tube air is sucked in, mark it. You can put a car filter on it - clean air will be pumped.

We put another car oil filter on the outlet of the oil separator receiver - to remove the oil completely. We connect the filter to the pressure gauge, and from it comes a hose, which is connected to the bus through the appropriate adapter.

For the rational use of space, do-it-yourself communications and garage accessories from improvised materials are used. It is necessary to involve the walls, the underground level in the process, to place machines inside the room, to organize normal lighting.

Homemade garage fixtures

For comfortable operation of the premises intended for storing cars, you should follow certain recommendations:

the tool must be as accessible as possible;
storage areas equipped with shelves / racks are much more convenient;
workbenches, viewing hole, do-it-yourself home-made machines and accessories for the garage expand the possibilities of the car owner;
the cellar allows you to save the space of the site;
the quality of lighting depends on the performance of work, minor repairs.

Organization of workspace inside the garage

Depending on the dimensions of the building, the area occupied by equipment, fixtures, communications should not be more than 10 - 20% of the size 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.

Tire storage rules

It is more convenient to store wheels on brackets of the following design:

two triangular frames from a corner, connected by jumpers from any rolled metal;
triangles are attached to the wall, the wheels are installed perpendicular to the supporting structure, slightly falling between the jumpers.

Wheel storage brackets

This is the most economical option for storing rubber in the off-season. The most demanded by motorists are straight and corner workbenches. The lower space is usually filled with shelves or drawers, on the tabletop are grinding machines, vise.

Homemade garage workbench

An example of organizing a corner workplace

A folding workbench can be very convenient

Wood is a versatile material for both workbenches and shelving

It is easier to build a wooden workbench on your own, but it has a smaller resource than an analogue from rolled metal that needs to be welded. If corners for shelves are not laid in the load-bearing walls during construction, it is easier to make racks from rolled metal or lumber.

Homemade garage shelving

Use for glass bottle racks

Built-in wardrobes are very compact

Original hanging shelves are suitable for storing long items

The design and layout of shelving inside each garage is too individual to follow general guidelines.

Observation hole and cellar

An inspection hole becomes a necessary device for a garage with your own hands. Moreover, the owner does not have to do all the repairs himself. Underground communication can be used in the following cases:

inspection of the running, steering, braking system before a long trip;
an oil change that saves money and does not take much time;
minor repairs, which allows the qualification of the owner.

Inspection hole in the garage

The entrance to the cellar is more convenient to arrange from the pit, as this will allow you to concrete several steps instead of using a ladder.

Cellar under the garage

The main nuances of these structures are:

swelling of clay soils is harmful to underground structures;
therefore, all elements of the pit and cellar are insulated with polystyrene foam from the outside;
in the underlying layer before concreting, backfilling of the sinuses of the pits, sand or crushed stone is used;
along the perimeter of underground structures at the level of the sole, drains are laid to collect and drain water.

The width of the pit should allow the driver to drive into it without lighting.

Lighting and ventilation

In garages, parallel circuits are more often used. lighting fixtures. 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 by LED lamps. 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.

Ventilation of the garage and cellar under it

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.

Related article:

Do-it-yourself ventilation in the garage. From this publication you will learn why garage ventilation is so important, what air exchange schemes exist, and installation nuances.

Other Helpful Ideas

Useful do-it-yourself garage accessories can be made from used utensils, inventory, materials left after construction. For example, by gluing lids plastic cans horizontally / vertically, the owner receives a convenient transparent dish for equipment or hardware, which is always at hand.

Device for storing small parts, tools, hardware

Interesting PVC Pipe Screwdriver Storage Rack

Homemade machines

From a power tool, you can assemble home-made machines and accessories for the garage:

drilling - a drill fixed with clamps in a fixture that moves with a gear along a rail;

Drilling machine from a drill

cutting - clamped in a similar way with an angle grinder with a tool for metal or wood;

Cutting machine from angle grinder

wood lathe - headstock from a drill, back from a cartridge, mounted on a frame made of a square pipe.

Drill lathe

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.

Related article:

Lathe for metal for the garage. Types of machines specifications, construction, review popular models in a special publication of our online magazine.

Hydropress

The simplest design hydraulic press 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.

Do-it-yourself hydraulic press from a jack

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.

Shelving on the ceiling

Pockets for storing cutting discs from disposable plates

Device for convenient use of threads and ropes

trimmings PVC pipes- ideal material for creating convenient storage spaces

Convenient pull-out racks for tool storage

Interesting do-it-yourself homemade garage

Ready "motorhome" over time acquires a large number of tools. Ordinary homemade products for the garage bring practical benefits without cash overpayments. Any do-it-yourself machines will not be inferior in quality to factory counterparts. Let's take a look at some of the fixtures.

Knife sharpener

So, a useful device gets a hole for the stem in the bolt. The rod is made by hand from thin wire. The carving is done taking into account the length of the whetstones.

Bar Clip can be crafted from:

organic glass;
ebonite;
saw clamp.

The upper part of the plate acts as a clamp. surface with two drilled holes applied to the machine. Then, closer to the knife, a common through hole is made. A thread is cut in the frame.

So, a home-made device with your own hands is almost ready. The second hole is made only on the plate away from the knife. Then cut the thread for the bolt (needed for tightening). A simple homemade mechanism for the garage allows you to sharpen knives on the go.

A bar made of artificial diamonds is affordable and very wear-resistant.

Pulley for adjusting the speed and load on the engine of the machine

metal;
textolite;
plywood (something between wood and metal).

In plywood with a jigsaw, one small and two bigger size circle. The center of the molds must match the diameter of the shaft. So that there are no problems with further manipulations, the circles are glued together or sit on a screw and tightened with a nut.

Details useful device fastened with screws. Then the pulley should be processed with sandpaper or a file, putting the structure on the drill chuck. The finished fragment of the machine can be additionally proliferated.

Avoid vibration, make sure that the center of gravity falls on the axis of rotation.
You can make a toothed pulley. At the central circle, small tubules are made to all stages of assembly.
If necessary, a small pulley is made from a thick piece of plywood (one circle). A groove is made in the mold, the part is mounted on the screw. A narrow file is applied to the rotating circle.

Do-it-yourself vacuum forming of sheet plastic

top and bottom frames;
molding plastic;
tie bolts;
perforated MDF;
opening for the vacuum chamber;
plywood base with a hole in the middle.

In a fragment of MDF or plywood (50 by 50 cm), a hole is made for a PVC pipe with a three-inch diameter. A frame of bars (30 by 30 cm) is attached to the resulting base with glue. To obtain tightness, all cavities are smeared with sealant.

The edge of the water pipe is glued to the base with one end, and the other end is attached to the vacuum cleaner hose. The whole structure is on its feet.

Certain holes are cut in the upper and lower frames to accommodate the vacuum chamber frame (strongly glued to the base). Cavities for fasteners are made along the perimeter of the frame at an equal distance.

Types of thermoplastic used:

DIY jigsaw

A steel square with a bolt soldered into it is made by hand as a file holder block.
The improved block is soldered to the old saw holder.
Focus on the desktop. Plywood is chosen as the base. The narrow area of \u200b\u200bthe table in size repeats the parameters of the jigsaw.
Furniture legs are mounted in the front plane of the table, a small wooden stand is fixed to the back plane of the working area.
To create a lever, use only hardwoods.
The lever hole must be created a little larger than the diameter of the stud (regulates the spring tension).

Described homemade craft should stand on the "sole", which will not interfere with the work process. If necessary, a corner is cut in the area of the base plate.

A set of cutters for artistic turning with your own hands

A semicircular grooved chisel is used for rough turning. The part is made from strips of tool steel.

Universal cutting device is used for finishing parts. The tool is made from standard straight chisels.

Shape cutters:

chisel-scraper.

a tool based on a straight chisel with one-sided sharpening levels the surface of cylindrical blanks;

a home-made device helps to thread and apply decorative risks to a wooden rod.

The cutting tool for soft wood species (aspen, linden) has a smaller sharpening angle compared to the sharpening angle of the device for processing boxwood, oak, birch.

Homemade extension cord with two outlets

The "proprietary" reel for the extension cord is made from two plywood discs that are bolted together. The fragments are separated by a duralumin tube and washers.

On one side of the reel, the bolts are recessed so that contact with the handle is without injury. On the other side, two holes for sockets are drilled at a certain distance. Socket boxes are attached with screws.

Proper storage and use of the tool

Each pipe is fastened with a plywood plate with self-tapping screws through the slot. To prevent the pipe fragment from loosening during operation, pieces of glazing beads are glued under the sides of the holder with PVA glue.

When it is necessary to hang the holder on the garage wall, the handle is inserted into the tube of the holder. The handle stand fits snugly into the slot and is fixed. With such additional equipment, the coil is mounted on the ceiling or on the bottom of the shelves.

To make the ram of the extension easily rotate, a small handle is mounted on the edge of the disk of the device, which consists of tubular sections of various diameters. A larger diameter pipe is put on a smaller hose and rigidly fixed with a flat screw.

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Useful DIY garage crafts

Most often, during the initial arrangement, all the necessary furniture is ordered. But if you rent a room or do not want to take money out of the family budget for this, then you will be able to settle on your own, especially if you know how to hold basic tools in your hands. To help yourself and for inspiration, you can use the video from do-it-yourself homemade for the garage (youtube can please you with a variety of ideas), or you can take into account the tips for arranging, which will be the basis for a successful layout.

If you look at the photo that demonstrates the optimal set of useful furniture elements, then note the useful nuances for yourself. First, the location of any storage system must be located at a certain distance from the walls. It is believed that there should be at least half a meter between the machine standing inside the room and the rack for normal, comfortable work inside. If the shape of your car storage is more like a rectangle rather than a square (this happens quite often), then it is worth moving all the storage for tools and useful things into one zone along the far wall opposite the door. It is here that you can, with maximum convenience, put not only a table or a rack, but even a carpentry or lathe. It would be useful to mention that all the storage of your tools should be located inside the garage only if it is securely closed or protected by tightly closed gates in the country. Otherwise, it is better to place there only the most necessary, preferably, not of particular value to the robbers.

If you provide for the installation of windows with your own hands in a separate room, which is located on the territory of your suburban area, then it is better to make them of the so-called attic type, that is, located in the roof, and choose a place just above such a work area. In summer and spring, such an arrangement of windows will help you save on lighting, there will be enough sunlight for all types of work, and besides, you can also ventilate the room, because ventilation can not always cope well, especially if you are going to work out inside, like in a workshop.

With a total shortage of money or for the love of art, you can also make an original storage system using old empty canisters. Any motorist accumulates quite a lot of them in a year, and if you ask your neighbors, then there will be enough of such an interesting locker for each compartment. Of course, there is nothing complicated here, and to perform such do-it-yourself homemade for the garage video- Lessons are not needed. You need to take a plastic canister, wash it well so that no traces of its contents remain. Armed with metal scissors, a knife or other tool, we cut off the front cover from the canister, but so that the sides remain and the contents do not overflow. To make the structure more stable, you can fix it on the back wall with self-tapping screws, but we will, of course, drive them not into the wall, but into a wooden rail, which we attach to dowels.

Do-it-yourself homemade for the garage photo

The same option as shown in the photo can be used in homemade products for summer cottages, because there, too, you often need to equip a workshop, and even less space is allocated for it than remains in the garage. For such a design, you will need to build a frame from wooden planks, and make notches along its upper and lower edges, where the cells will be inserted. Most likely, the inspiration for this design was the classic hives that are used in breeding bees, the system here is exactly the same. Sheets that are inserted inside have a perforated surface and the presence of these small holes will allow you to screw carnations inside, hang hooks to hang tools and useful devices as conveniently as possible so that they do not fly off when pulling out and pushing in.

Exactly the same perforation can be inscribed in a furniture set. Having such full set everything you need for a home master, you can build a lot useful homemade for the garage with your own hands, video who are online. In terms of popularity, such resources may soon overtake popular hand-made projects, because men, no less than women, want to make the space around them, their kingdom, beautiful, functional, and comfortable.

Interesting do-it-yourself homemade for the garage

We are accustomed to either simply throwing out tires that are completely worn out, or we can make crafts from tires for the garden with our own hands. Having exhausted the last winter set for a swan or a flowerpot, this year you may well single it out for yourself by making a whole furniture set. Frankly, for this purpose, you will need not only car tires, but also bicycle tires, because they can be used to construct backs, turning a stool into an armchair.

Practice making such furniture and soon you will be able to completely replace your coffee table with such a table in the living room with your own hands, tire crafts not only look beautiful, but can also become part of the original design concept.

A table and chairs are great, there will be somewhere to sit, but with the question of how to cook a delicious barbecue, our next idea will help here. The fact is that an ordinary folding brazier may not maintain the required temperature of coals for a long time, and if you like to sit around the fire for a long time, you should make something more ambitious. We will modernize the garden wheel crafts a little and present to your attention a brazier made on the basis of a wheel rim. In order for the rim to maintain the set temperature well and prevent the coals from cooling down, it must be overlaid with bricks, but for the maximum decorative effect of such a homemade product, it is better to file them a little with a grinder to fold them in a circle. The bottom must be covered with any available material, which does not support combustion, for example, crushed stone of fine fraction.

Do-it-yourself homemade garage drawings

If you plan to spend a lot of time in your impromptu workshop, then among the ones you are interested in do-it-yourself homemade for the garage - heating, lighting, ventilation, that is, the arrangement of a full-fledged comfortable stay inside for a long time. Some prefer to install infrared heaters, but from the point of view of the cost of electricity, this will not be a very rational option. good option can be water heating, but it is best to design it in garages that are located next to a residential building.

You can place solid fuel boilers of any design inside any type of garage, even make your own metal stove-stove using a welding machine. But do not forget that with this type of heating, the finish inside should be made of non-combustible materials, and the ventilation was done with high quality, even at the stage when we build the roof with our own hands in order to remove all combustion products from the room in a timely manner.

DIY homemade machines for the garage

If you have a need for some specific work, then you can use special machines, for example, a pipe bending machine, which can be useful not only for motorists, but also for motorcycle owners.

DIY Garage Tools - Turn your caravan into a home workshop!

Necessary tools and materials

Any motorist is able to make a variety of garage accessories with his own hands, using inexpensive materials and the simplest tool. Such home-made crafts of a home craftsman turn a caravan into a full-fledged workshop.

Garage workbench - it's hard to do without it!

If you plan to work out in the garage self service his vehicle, as well as to carry out a variety of repairs and make own crafts, it will be difficult to do without a workbench. It is usually made of wooden boards, which are mounted on a reliable base (metal profiled pipe or wooden thick beam).

It is allowed to make a desktop from metal blanks. It is easy to cut them to the required dimensions and assemble them into one solid structure using steel corners and hardware (universal self-tapping screws, screw connections, bolts, and so on) or using a welding machine.

The manufacture of a wooden or metal workbench always begins with a detailed design drawing. You must correctly evaluate the working space of your garage and fit the desktop into it as harmoniously as possible. It is advisable to provide for the presence of shelves and drawers (drawers) on the workbench. They allow you to keep all sorts of tools close at hand. It is recommended to install a small vise on the countertop.

Making a metal workbench

If your garage has shelves or racks (or you want to mount them), experts advise installing a workbench next to them.

Then you will get an excellent work area where you can do any homework, producing original and useful homemade crafts for the home.

Assemble a table top from boards with geometric parameters suitable for you (for example, 200 by 10 by 5 cm), connecting wooden crafts between each other with metal ties and good glue. For a standard workbench, suitable for any garage, it is enough to take 20 of these boards.
On the countertop, make special grooves (on 5 and 16 boards in a row) for stops. The groove parameters are 2.5 by 2.5 cm.
After the glue has dried, the countertop must be planed so that a perfectly flat work surface is obtained.
From bars 80 by 10 by 10 cm you make legs for a workbench. Grooves should be provided in the front supports. You will insert brackets into them, which you will then connect to the beam (longitudinal).
Assemble the base of the underframe from two frames made of boards 10 by 5 cm, and fix it to the support. The frames are cut into the legs of the workbench by about 2.5 cm, and then they are bolted.
Attach the supporting walls (rear and side) to the resulting structure. They can be made from centimeter plywood or chipboard sheets.

Now you need to connect the top frame to the table top. This operation is carried out without problems with the help of bolts. Do not forget to apply drying oil to the made wooden workbench and varnish it. On such a table, you will make any crafts with special pleasure!

Shelving is a must for the garage!

The motorhome of any vehicle owner over time turns into a kind of warehouse where a variety of items and tools are stored. They all need to find a comfortable place so that each fixture is easy to find. A hand-made rack allows you to efficiently organize the storage of tools.

You can make such a design from metal and wood. In the latter case, use solid wood - beech or oak. Shelves and drawers from them are able to withstand quite serious loads. According to accepted standards, the rack must hold a pressure of at least 150–160 kg. At the same time, it is not recommended to load home-made structures with things that generally weigh more than 500 kg.

Wood rack

Let's see how you can quickly make a garage rack, spending a minimum of money on the purchase of materials. The scheme of work is as follows:

Take a board 9 cm wide, cut it into pieces of different sizes (18–30 cm). We will use these segments as supports for the rack.
Make shelves from a more powerful board - 19 cm thick. To do this, you will need to saw it into pieces of the desired length.
Mark the board for the base of the structure, indicating on it the location of the spacers (they are usually removed from the edge of the base by 2.5–3 cm). Now you need to attach (preferably use construction glue) the top spacer and nail it to it (with ordinary nails suitable sizes) the top shelf of the rack. Then repeat these manipulations with other shelves and spacers. At the very last turn, the lower expanding element is attached.
Turn the assembled structure over, tighten the base of the rack with spacers using screws.

storage facility various tools and things are almost ready. You only need to sand the rack and then apply oil varnish to the wood (it is better to do two layers), and then attach the self-made structure to the wall with anchor screws. The places where the rack is attached to the wall are under the lowest and highest shelves.

Useful technical homemade products for the garage - a press and a cyclone vacuum cleaner

A home-made clamping device, which is sometimes impossible to do without at home, is very simple to do. You will need:

hydraulic jack;
metal platform;
profile pipes with a section of 6x6 and 4x4 centimeters (each will require two pieces).

The press is done in this way:

Attach two vertical guides (pipes 4 by 4 cm) to the base of the structure.
Weld between them (at the very top) a piece of pipe 6 by 6 cm.
Install another 6 by 6 cm pipe so that it moves without difficulty along the mounted guides.

Homemade garage press

The use of such a technical home-made product is elementary - you lay the products that you want to connect on the working surface of the press, cover them with a thick plywood sheet, lower the jumper pipe with the jack placed on it. You only need to apply pressure to the jack to glue two products or your own crafts for ages.

But with the help of the following homemade product - cyclone vacuum cleaner, you can always put the perfect order in the garage. It is made from a dense plastic or (which is better) from a metal container. It must be airtight. The scheme for making homemade products for effective garbage collection in a motorhome is as follows:

Make two holes in the lid of the container. Place the first at the edge, the second - in the central part. The diameters of the holes must correspond to the sections of the hoses that you will connect to the device. One hose is brought to the hole from the edge, it is designed to collect debris, the other is needed to connect a conventional vacuum cleaner.
In the inlet pipe of the described homemade product, you need to install a plastic elbow. It will ensure the process of swirling (cyclone) air in the tank. Due to this knee, the effectiveness of such a homemade product increases, which easily and quickly sucks in small stones, lumps of dirt, sawdust and other solid contaminants. All of them will be collected in the tank that you connected to the vacuum cleaner.

A device for making strong rope from plastic bottles

When heated, the material from which bottles for mineral water and various drinks are made can shrink. This gives us the opportunity to make an excellent rope out of such containers. With its help, you can very firmly connect various parts and assemblies in the caravan and in general in the household.

Rope from a plastic bottle

To make a device for making homemade cords, you need to stock up on two bolts with washers and nuts, metal washers, a piece of thin board or plywood, a stationery blade and an electric drill. We make the device like this:

In the middle of the board or plywood, place two washers, mark their centers.
Drill holes in the marked centers with a drill.
Drill holes from the reverse side (this is a mandatory procedure to ensure that there is no twisting and rotation when using the device).
Screw in the bolts.

The use of this craft is simple. It is necessary to put several washers on the protruding sections of the bolts (their number determines the thickness of the rope to be cut). Then, a clerical knife should be placed on top of the washers (you can even use a piece of it) and strengthen the structure by mounting a few more washers and tightening the nuts until they stop. After that, the homemade device must be fixed with clamps on a garage workbench or other work surface.

Next we take plastic bottle with a volume of two liters, cut out the bottom of it, cut a strip (very small) of the required length and install our “blank” under the knife. The tape must be pulled with one hand, while holding the container to be cut with the other. From one bottle of 2 liters you will get about 25 meters (linear) of excellent rope with high shrink characteristics.

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A variety of fixtures for a private garage, designed and manufactured on their own allow for better and more efficient maintenance of the car. Their creation requires minimal financial costs. Wherein homemade equipment in most cases, in terms of its capabilities, it is in no way inferior to expensive factory counterparts.

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 fixtures were always at hand, and rarely used were 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 from a more or less experienced home master will not cause any 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 frame. 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. Compact and quality tool ready for sharpening! 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 what a convenient and useful 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! Racks homemade design it is recommended to make from square profile pipes with dimensions of 10x10 cm. They will provide the device 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 using 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 manual 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 equipment 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 is also suitable), 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 flow is supplied through the upper consumer compressed air. 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 homemade device should not exceed eight atmospheres, the minimum - two.

It is advisable to additionally equip the compressor with an emergency valve. This inexpensive item will guarantee completely safe operation 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.