Tips of the Week: Quick Sand Casting, Cardboard Cutting, Free Steel, and Overlooked First Aid
Casting with kinetic sand, solder tip cleaner, overlooked first aid tips, and more.
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Tips of the Week: Adding Color to Engravings, Marking Holes with Magnets, and the Value of Keeping Your Mistakes
Waterproofing with glue, coloring fine-detail engravings, heat-sealer as organizer, and more.
Tips of the Week: Magnet Clips, Hobby Knife Compass, and the Squiggly Line of Untrue
Adding magnets to your test clips, turning a compass into a circle cutter, and a cheap lamp on every desk.
Tips of the Week: Rolling Epoxy Putty in Flour, Cooling Plastic-Drilling with Water, Clever Uses of Black Hot Glue
A week of top tips for drilling, tapping, pressing, and rolling out epoxy like it’s bread dough.
Tips of the Week: Epoxy Palettes, Magnets in the Shop, Making Your Own Solder Flux
A fine week of solder, glue, flux, and paint tips. And how to use magnets in the shop.
Tips of the Week: Bigger Bar Clamps, Lighting Your Safety Glasses, Lego Cable Holders
A week of wildly diverse tips miscellany, from DIY bar clamps to hurricane battery hacks to quick n’ creepy Halloween ghosts.
Quick Tip: Use a Sticky Dash Mat to Hold Teardown Parts
These things are sold to hold your cell phone in the car, but they also work great for keeping parts (including plastic and other non-magnetic bits) organized when you’re taking something apart.
