Tutorial on Bondo
Hack n Mod has a round-up of useful information and how-tos related to Bondo, the wondrous auto body filler with hundreds of other uses. The Power of Bondo: A Comprehensive Tutorial
Toolbox
How to – Make a drill press
This is a nice instructable that is built from parts headed for the garbage. Unfortunately I just gave away a compact radial arm saw because it wasn’t working very well, and I didn’t have much use for it. If I saw this instructable, I think I would have converted it to a drill. Learn how […]
Seriously screwed up
If your all-time favorite simple machine is the helical inclined plane, if words like “panhead,” “countersink,” and “Pozidriv” have a mysteries hold over you, if your idea of fun is looking at vintage YouTube footage of Soviet-era screw-drive vehicles (and whose isn’t?), you’ll want to bookmark the singular hardware high weirdness that is the Screw […]
Hello Kitty… power sander?
And with that, we’ve finally reached some sort of pod people (pod kitty?) singularity/assimilation situation in which every product in the known universe has been Hello Kitty branded. The outrageous Hello Kitty Power Sander [via]
Closet workbench
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool With seemingly no place left to work on his electronics projects, Adam turned his office closet into a stealthy concealable work area – neat idea! Now let’s see a fume extractor in there, eh? – Uncluttering with a Closet Workbench & photos Related: Simple workbench AND MEGA WORKBENCH ROUND […]
Our kind of catalog
Make: Books indexer extraordinaire Patti Schiendelman sent us a link to this seriously cool UK catalog of “Weird, smart, strange, bizarre, electronic, technology resources and materials.” Hey, that sounds like our market demo! Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) The material is a cast thermo-setting resin with extraordinary memory properties. Most polymers have some ‘memory’ but this […]
Sheets o’ Duct Tape
Mister Jalopy writes on D+R: Quite awesome! Using these 8 1/2″ x 11″ duct tape sheets is like having a roll of duct tape almost a foot wide. I may have to start using these sheets as stationery for special correspondence – read the letter, patch your lifeboat! DuctSheetz – Pack of 10 sheets $6.99 […]
