This pretty clever, a magnetic wrist band for holding parts, tools, anything that can stick to magnets… you could make a DIY version, but $6.50 ain’t such a bad deal either… Super Strong with 6 neodymium magnets! Rated to hold 6 pounds of steel parts. Saves time by keeping steel parts close at hand. Ends […]
Neat, I love what this Digg user wrote about PDFpad! – “Use it to plan your next project submission to MAKE magazine. Stumbled on this one at work. Allows you to print 7 types of graph paper in the comfort of your home home (Cartesian, Logarithmic, Engineering, Polar, Isometric, Hexagonal(for you AD&D folks), Probability) with […]
Pat writes – “Need an almost free machine shop to fit in your closet or even one that fills your garage? Need a free hand drill to make 1” holes in hardened steel? Need some simple castings with a tensile strength near that of cast iron? Need 75 cent bearings to replace $5000 roller bearings? […]
Planning out your workshop usually means a lot of moving stuff around and trial/error, here’s another approach, make a miniature model… Pfred1 writes – “I used the architectural scale 1/4 inch to the foot as my scale. Heck, after a while it was sort of fun to make scale models of all of my junk. […]
Awhile back we posted up some color changing / heat reactive paint from eclipse, and now there are some tiles that do the same thing from Moving Color, neato… [via] – Link. Related: Heat activated color changing paint – Link.
Here’s this week’s Week in Tools from our pal Chuck at ToolMonger (I got busy with Swap-o-rama-rama, so we’re posting this now!) – “This week we looked at Dremel’s new EZ-Lock cam/mandrel system for cutting and polishing wheels. (I’d bet I can count the number of Makers who don’t own a Dremel tool on one […]
Chuck sent in this week’s “Toolmonger’s Top 5: The Week in Tools” buckle in… – “It’s Halloween time again, and we’ve found some great tools that have us itchin’ to jump in on our holiday craft and construction projects, like Dremel’s inexpensive cordless pumpkin carving kit and a kickin’ butane-powered hot glue gun. This week […]
