Useful items for the garage. Homemade garage fixtures

The garage is the holy of holies for any car enthusiast. Almost every man who is the proud owner of a garage spends perhaps more time in it than at home with his family. Car enthusiasts and masters of their craft use this kind of premises for work, repair of cars or other equipment, the production of furniture or various useful things for the home, as well as just friendly gatherings with friends. To make your garage as comfortable and functional as possible, men are ready for anything. In this article we will give some interesting ideas on how to make it yourself and thereby simplify your leisure time in it.

To get started you need. In order to properly equip the garage and rationally use all of its rather small space, you can use the following garage homemade products:

• Shelving or stands along the entire length of the wall;
• Shelves (closed or open type);
• Tables with cabinets;
• Overall drawers or shelves for storing large items;
• Hooks and hooks for hanging objects;
• Secret drawers or shelves;
• lockable drawers;
• Metal frames for storing spare wheels and replacement tires;
• Steel meshes;
• Inspection pit for car repair;
• Cellar or cellar for storage of vegetables and conservation.

And now let's look at how to make some of the listed crafts in the garage with your own hands.

Shelves

Such convenient devices as shelves can, of course, be made of wooden boards and metal fasteners. And you can use the life hacks of other motorists - make shelves for storing nails, screws, bolts and nuts from plastic bottles:

• If you need open holders for all sorts of small things, then you need to cut the base of a plastic jar or small bottle in half, without touching the threads. Then the thread must be screwed into the lid of the container and the outer side of the lid must be glued or screwed to the wall so that the cut-off part of the bottle looks up. As a result, the remaining part of the container will serve as a kind of holder for various kinds of stuff.
• The same small parts and materials can be stored in closed plastic containers. To do this, it is only necessary to glue or screw their lids to the shelves from below so that the can is in a vertical position. When you need to take something from the container, it will be enough just to unscrew it from the lid.
• In general, any home or building material can act as a shelf in the garage. So, for example, a piece of sewer pipe or a cardboard cylinder, mounted on a wall or under the ceiling, can be used as a great place to store long items. And the halves of plastic plates screwed to the wall will serve as convenient pockets for discs for the grinder.

Shelving

In order to store tools, things and various accessories of the owner of the garage, it is advisable to equip it with a large and durable rack. This kind of homemade in the garage can be done in several ways:

• The most reliable is a rack made of metal and wood. Steel rails provide a solid base and support for wooden shelves. Shelves made of steel will be even stronger and more durable.
• You can also make a rack with your own hands in the garage completely out of wood. To do this, you need a medium and thick board (19cm). It is necessary to cut supports for the rack from the middle board, and to make shelves from the thick board. It is necessary to fix all the details of the structure with screws, and open its surface with oil varnish.
• The most budget homemade garage racks can be made from 50x100 timber, 50x25 boards and plywood. The timber in this structure will act as legs, boards - transverse guides, and plywood - shelves.

Attention! It is not necessary to place on a do-it-yourself rack tools and things whose total weight exceeds 500 kg. This kind of useful home-made for the garage is designed to withstand a mass of up to 200 kg.

boxes

One of the "Kulibins" became the author of such an invention as boxes in the form of cut plastic canisters. If you carefully cut off the side wall of the canister and put it on the shelf with the opposite side, then such a container can easily turn into a drawer with a handle.

Frame for storing winter tires and wheels. Such a frame can be equipped with metal corners. The corners must be connected to each other with any metal-roll product. If a suspension frame for wheels is planned, then two triangles must first be built from the corners, which will subsequently be connected by two more corners. The connecting corners will act as wheel holders, therefore the distance between them should be such that the wheels do not fall into it, but only sag a little. If it was planned to make a standing rack for wheels, then a rectangular frame is simply made from the corners.

Other homemade

Here are a few more homemade things that you can build in the garage with your own hands:

Let's hope that thanks to the photos in the article, useful tips and instructions, you can easily build homemade crafts with your own hands for a garage or other utility room.

For a true car enthusiast, a garage is a second home. And then the first. Therefore, everyone tries to take its arrangement and equipment seriously. The functionality of each square centimeter of area is also very important. This will allow you to work in a spacious room, and tools and spare parts will be stacked and arranged correctly and in perfect order. As for the arrangement in the domestic plan, we will not talk today, but today we will try to save on equipment.

What should be in the garage

In principle, there is no such device that could not be bought. True, not everyone has the opportunity to spend tidy sums on the purchase of Bosch equipment, by the way, it is useful to look through catalogs with Bosch equipment or Intertool, or Interskol. The young but frisky company Johnsway and Ombra, repainted from green to brown, have great experience and opportunities in this regard.

The catalogs contain a sea of ​​excellent working equipment, fixtures and universal pullers, mandrels for all occasions and, of course, tools that are difficult to look at without a stingy male tear. But the cost in the catalogs is unreasonably high, as for a private trader. Service stations, of course, are in more favorable conditions, they earn money with equipment and God himself ordered them to have a better tool. Otherwise, such a master is worthless.

Garage Craftsman Wish List

Still, it’s worth making an approximate list of what should be in the workshop, and choose from it yourself. Here's what everyone would like to see:

1. Lathe, small, but with a minimum set of functions. Naturally, it will not work completely on your own if you do not have a solid and accurate bed. The price from a Chinese manufacturer will be at least 23-28 thousand rubles. It is dangerous to buy domestic ones - many factories simply assemble equipment from Chinese components.
2. Drilling machine. Useful when you need to perform precise drilling or minimal milling work. You can make it, and they are inexpensive. A drill stand costs 3,000 rubles if you buy a ready-made one, and a fully functional drill costs 20-30 thousand.
3. A hydraulic press is an indispensable thing if you have to deal with shrinkage or pressing out of bushings, sleeves, bearings. It is built on the basis of a hydraulic jack.
   
4. Emery. Necessary thing. Refuel the tool, sharpen the drill, fit the part to size, sharpen a spatula or knife, a universal device, so it’s better to buy a quality sharpener, which can cost 3-4 thousand, depending on the options. And options can be quite useful. For example, a flexible sleeve for turning a sharpener into a full-fledged drill for grinding or manual milling.
   
5. Racks, shelves, boxes for storing tools and accessories.

This should be an approximate set of additional equipment, not counting welding, two or three angle grinders and two or three drills and screwdrivers of different capacities.

Homemade fixtures

An elementary frame for a grinder can become a universal home-made machine. Applications - mass, made from anything, up to a solid wooden frame. it will be useful in cases where it is necessary to process a small part carefully and with two hands, without clamping the part in a vise. Of course, this design has limitations, but as a small grinder or cut-off machine, it will work for five.

We do not indicate the dimensions, the designs and sizes of the grinders are different. The photos show the essence of the device, and it is not difficult to assemble it. It is worth working on fixing the grinder to the frame - so that it is quickly and securely fixed and quickly removed. Such a device is especially valuable for angle grinders with adjustable speed.

As a base, we use a chipboard sheet of suitable size, which is hinged, as in this design, or on latches, you can use a screw mount.

The drawing of a small lathe, which is presented, can be useful to those who occasionally have to deal with turning work, and it makes no sense to buy a desktop one. This project will certainly not satisfy those who need high precision and high spindle speeds, but for minimal turning work it will do. Instead of the spindle from the M10 bolt shown in the drawing, use a finished spindle or drill chuck.

Designed for processing wooden and plastic parts, the diameter of the part is up to 50 mm, and the length is up to 200, but can be revised if necessary. If we take it as a basis, then replacing the wooden base with any metal-roll, we get a kind of desktop machine for turning metal.

Various trifles are often folded in plastic buckets and boxes in the form of a kind of assortment. Therefore, finding the right small tool, drill or nut is quite problematic. For storing small things, jars of mustard, mayonnaise and other products with a metal or plastic lid that is firmly attached to the jar are perfect.

To organize easy access, you will have to sort through everything, separate the cutlets from the flies, the bolts by 10 from the nuts by 6 and sort everything into jars. Covers are screwed to shelves or any horizontal surface, and now it will not be difficult to find the necessary fasteners.

For horizontal storage of loose fasteners, magnetic containers can be used. Convenient thing. Fasteners will not crumble, always in sight, and containers can be arranged as space requires. The main thing is to fix a thin magnetic tape in the right place, and glue large metal washers to the bottom of the containers themselves.

More creative ideas that come to mind inventive craftsmen regarding the organization and storage of tools and fixtures, we have shown in the photo. Use your imagination and reinvent the wheel. And your garage will be the perfect place for a comfortable repair of your favorite car.

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.

Do-it-yourself lifting gates are much better and more efficient than ordinary gates on the wings.

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

Therefore, such homemade products in the garage, such as lifting gates on one leaf, 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. The lower ends of the box posts are deepened by 20 mm into the concrete base.

The sash is made of a plank shield (which is sheathed with sheet steel on the outside), 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, the upper part of the door 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.

In addition to garage doors, garage homemade products are 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 auto-related work, many also perform 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. The main components of the workbench are 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 (in 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.

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, a viewing hole, home-made machines and do-it-yourself garage accessories expand the capabilities 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; grinding machines and a vice are located on the table top.

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 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 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 the lids of plastic jars horizontally / vertically, the owner gets 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, design, overview of popular models in a special publication of our online magazine.

Hydropress

The simplest design of a hydraulic press is obtained from an automobile 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

PVC pipe cuttings are the ideal material for creating convenient storage areas.

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. The surface with two drilled holes is applied to the frame. 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, one small and two larger circles are cut with a jigsaw. 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 of a useful device are tightened 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.

1. Avoid vibration, make sure that the center of gravity falls on the axis of rotation.
2. You can make a toothed pulley. At the central circle, small tubules are made to all stages of assembly.
3. 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

1. A steel square with a bolt soldered into it is made by hand as a file holder block.
2. The improved block is soldered to the old saw holder.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To create a lever, use only hardwoods.
6. The lever hole must be created a little larger than the diameter of the stud (regulates the spring tension).

The described home-made craft should stand on a "sole" that will not interfere with the workflow. 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 holder tube. 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.

DIY homemade for the garage: the best ideas with photos

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 boards, 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. With such a complete set of everything you need for a home craftsman, you can build a lot of 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, not only car tires, but also bicycle tires will come in handy for this purpose, because they can be used to construct backrests, 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 the 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 that does not support combustion, for example, crushed stone of a 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 people prefer to install infrared heaters, but in terms of the cost of electricity, this will not be a very rational option. Water heating can be a good option, but it is best designed 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 using a welding machine. But do not forget that with this type of heating, the interior decoration should be made of non-combustible materials, and the ventilation should be 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 Fixtures - Turn your caravan into a home workshop!

Necessary tools and materials

Any car enthusiast is able to make a variety of garage accessories with their 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 do your own maintenance of your vehicle in the garage, as well as make a variety of repairs and do your 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.

1. Assemble the tabletop from boards with geometric parameters suitable for you (for example, 200 by 10 by 5 cm), connecting wooden products to 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.
2. 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.
3. After the glue has dried, the countertop must be planed so that a perfectly flat work surface is obtained.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. 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 tabletop. 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 (it is advisable to use construction glue) the top spacer and nail to it (with ordinary nails of 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.
4. Turn the assembled structure over, tighten the base of the rack with spacers using screws.

The building for storing various tools and things is 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:

1. Attach two vertical guides (pipes 4 by 4 cm) to the base of the structure.
2. Weld between them (at the very top) a piece of pipe 6 by 6 cm.
3. 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 next homemade product - a cyclone vacuum cleaner, you can always put things in 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:

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. In the middle of the board or plywood, place two washers, mark their centers.
2. Drill holes in the marked centers with a drill.
3. Drill holes from the reverse side (this is a mandatory procedure to ensure that there is no twisting and rotation when using the device).
4. 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 a two-liter plastic bottle, cut out the bottom from 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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It's nice to see when a person made all and other household items with his own hands. To simplify the process of cutting metal or cutting wood elements, they build home-made machines and fixtures for the home workshop. This solution saves not only time for the manufacture of products, but also money for the purchase of finished products. A few practical and interesting options are discussed below.

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How to use homemade machines and fixtures for the home workshop

The use of home-made machines and devices for the home workshop is aimed at solving several problems:

• Simplification of the metal processing process. In the course of creating household items, a metal carver or a press is often required.
• Improvement in wood processing. Even to build a small barn or make a wooden one, others are needed.

Buying a ready-made tool is quite expensive, so the use of home-made machines and accessories for the garage is becoming more and more relevant every day. Among the most common options for home tools are:

• carpentry workbench;
• device for quick sharpening of knives;
• device for sharpening metal drills;
• drilling machines;
• press;
• cutting disc machines.

Here are a few photos of do-it-yourself tools and fixtures from "homemade" ones:

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Practical DIY tool shelves

Before creating devices, and with your own hands, determine the storage location for all devices, so that later you do not have to look throughout the workshop or where everything is. It is not difficult to make a shelf for tools with your own hands, the main thing is to decide on its dimensions and material of manufacture.

The easiest way to make shelves is to assemble them from wood. Do not forget about the need to cover the finished structure with a protective varnish or to prevent rotting and swelling of the wood.

You can create a combined version of a metal support and wooden shelves. Here are detailed instructions for creating such a homemade model:

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	Assemble the frame. To do this, prepare two side frames, consisting of 4 corners. Connect elements with . Then, pull the 2 frames together using 4 corners.
	When the frame is fully assembled, proceed to the manufacture of shelves. They can be made from wood or metal, as well as from other improvised dense materials. It is enough to cut the canvases of a suitable size and fix them on a metal base.
	If desired, you can make the rack movable by attaching four small wheels. Or firmly install it in the allotted place in the garage.

You can find other interesting projects and drawings for making tool shelves. Watch a video on the topic:

And also make useful household appliances with your own hands:

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We make a carpentry workbench with our own hands according to the drawings: video instructions and photo examples

Among the common do-it-yourself devices, a workbench is distinguished. Durable and dimensional, allowing you to securely fix the workpiece, it is useful for high-quality cutting of wood and creating various elements from it.

The device package includes:

1. Working surface. For it, a solid one is used to increase the life of the device. The thickness must be at least 6 cm.
2. Supports. Assembled from wooden beams or metal plates. The main task is to ensure the stability of the entire mechanism.
3. Vice for fixing the product. If the table is long, you can install two vices at once.
4. Tool box. A useful recess or pull-out design that provides quick access to the small parts you need.

To independently assemble a carpentry workbench for your workshop, you should choose a drawing, purchase material for work.

Do-it-yourself carpentry workbench drawings

Before buying materials to build your own workbench, you should think about a detailed drawing. It should include the dimensions of the machine itself, it is advisable to note the dimensions of the materials used and their quantity.

For example, a finished drawing of a folding workbench with your own hands may look like this:

Whatever model you choose to create, consider several features of the desktop that provide the convenience of cutting wood:

• the height and length of the hands of the master: the height and width of the countertop depend on these parameters;
• which hand is working: place the vise on the right or left;
• what blanks will be made: selection of the table shape;
• how much space in the room you allocate for a workbench.

Given all these parameters, it will be easier for you to decide on the drawings of the carpentry workbench and the dimensions of the machine. Here are some interesting examples:

Instructions for assembling a wooden workbench with your own hands

You can buy a wooden workbench in a store or through online catalogs, but it's cheaper to make it yourself. Let's take as a basis a simple version with typical tabletop dimensions: length - 150-200 cm, width 70-120 cm.

Manufacturing work will include several stages:

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	Make the top cover from thick ones to make a shield with a width of 70 to 200 cm. Fasten the elements onto long nails, and you need to drive them in from the outside, and carefully bend them from the inside. The working surface of the workbench is made only of wood or.
	Sheathe the lid along the lower perimeter with a 5 by 5 cm timber. This will make it more convenient to mount the vertical supports. The location of the supports depends on the size of the countertop. It is better to make them from a thick rectangular bar at least 120 by 120 mm.
	The carpenter's workbench must be installed correctly. Be sure to fasten it firmly. If it will be mounted on the street under a canopy, then dig holes for the supports. Indoors, use other methods of fastening.

When the structure is assembled, place a vise on it. To fully understand how to assemble a carpentry workbench with your own hands, watch the video:

Making a carpenter's vise for a workbench with your own hands

Professional "homemade" assemble not only tables for work, but also a vise with their own hands according to the drawings. Any design of such a clamp will include several elements:

1. Supports where each has a sponge for clamping.
2. Moving clamping jaw.
3. Metal guides. A sponge moves over them.
4. Lead screw, for moving elements.
5. collar. Required to rotate the screw.

In the manufacture of homemade vise with your own hands, you can use various improvised materials. For example, there is a design option from a profile pipe. To do this, prepare several pieces of pipe of different sizes, a steel stud with a large thread and double nuts.

Instructions for creating a verstal vice from a profile pipe:

Image	What need to do
	The largest pipe acts as a body. Supports are soldered to it from below. A 3-4 mm steel flange is put on the back side. A hole for the running nut is drilled in the center, and opposite the front support there is a back sponge.
	On the inner moving part, the front steel flange. A stud is mounted in it, with lock nuts fixed to it. Thrust washers are put on both sides of the flange. The last element is a movable tube attached to the front sponge.

And also watch the video "do-it-yourself vise at home":

Do-it-yourself metal workbench drawings

A metal workbench does not differ much from a carpenter's workbench. At the heart of a rigid metal, not a wooden frame. A vise is attached to it, and the entire workbench is designed to withstand the force of a blow from a sledgehammer.

Do-it-yourself metal workbenches can have one, two or three cabinets, and also not have shelves and drawers for small parts. In terms of strength for working in a garage, you can make an ordinary table of metal up to 5 mm thick and a reinforced structure, where sheets from 10 to 30 mm are applicable.

Here are some useful blueprints for making a metal workbench for your workshop:

How to make a do-it-yourself knife sharpener: drawings and photo examples

No home is complete without a knife in the kitchen. It is rather difficult to make the correct one without special devices: it is necessary to maintain the desired angle and achieve the ideal sharpness of the blade.

For each knife, a certain sharpening angle must be observed:

1. Razor and scalpel require an angle of 10-15⁰.
2. Knife for cutting bakery products - 15-20⁰.
3. Classic multifunctional knives - 25-30⁰.
4. For hunting and camping, they take a device with a blade angle from 25 to 30⁰.
5. If you want to cut hard materials, then sharpen at an angle of 30-40⁰.

To ensure the desired angle, it is worth buying or making a sharpening device. For example, you can assemble a sharpener with your own hands.

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To assemble such a machine, a motor from a “washer” with a power of 200 watts is useful. Completely to create a grindstone from an engine from the Workflow for creating such a simple device will be as follows:

• Sand the wood blocks with sandpaper to remove any burrs. Make a markup depending on the desired angle.

• Attach a stone to the drawn line to sharpen the blade. To do this, attach it to the bar and mark its width. Then, on the markings, make cuts, up to 1.5 cm deep.
• In the resulting recesses, fix the abrasive bars so that the grooves match. Then, install the sharpening stone by screwing it onto the bolts.

There are many ways to make a homemade knife sharpener. Choose the right one and try to create a convenient and useful tool for the home.

How to make a do-it-yourself tool for sharpening a drill for metal

They independently make not only a sharpener for blades, but also a machine for sharpening drills for metal. Here are some drawings to help you get started:

Ready-made home machine The simplest and most common version of such equipment for the garage is a converted drill. For work you will need:

• bed for the base;
• rotation mechanism;
• vertical stand.

For a rack, boards are usually used. The mass of the drill is small, so there is no need to use metal. In this case, the frame must be made massive in order to reduce vibration during the operation of the device.

To correctly connect the bed and the vertical stand, as well as assemble all the equipment into one whole machine, pay attention to the video instruction:

Do-it-yourself drawings with dimensions for a drilling machine

To properly make any machine or practical device for private use, you first need to make a drawing with dimensions. Only then proceed to the preparation of materials and assembly of the device.

Here are some examples of do-it-yourself drilling machine drawings from a drill:

And you can also make homemade vise for a drilling machine. Below is a video instruction for assembling such a device:

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