Small Flathead Screwdriver Archives

Pop Top Lamp Shade

Turn a bunch of those pernicious soda pull tabs into a lovely upcycled table lamp.

If you need a large capacitor, but you don’t want to buy one, grab your old camera and we can get a nice-sized one! *NOTE: There are loads of other things inside of a camera you can take, including a lens and an LCD display. Don’t toss these parts out!

Bulletproof Binder

OK, so it’s not, actually. Bulletproof, that is. But with 3/32″ aluminum sheet covers, nickel-plated steel piano hinges, and all-riveted construction, it’s a damn sight tougher than just about any other 3-ring binder you’re likely to encounter in the wild. Especially those crappy cardboard-shrinkwrapped-in-vinyl models most of us had to make do with as schoolkids. […]

Light Switch Time Capsule

I get nostalgic when I move out of a home, especially if it’s one I’ve lived in awhile. Leaving a secret treasure or two, stashed here and there, seems to help me get closure. Unlike, say, dropping a note down inside the wall, a note on the back of a switch plate is likely to […]

Harvesting Chemicals from a Battery

This tutorial shows how to take apart a spent zinc-carbon dry cell of the common household type. Besides making for an interesting object lesson in electrochemistry, taking apart a spent D-cell, for instance, allows you to salvage many materials which can be of use to amateur chemists–materials which would otherwise probably end up in a […]

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