Tips of the Week: Clamp Caulking Gun, Painting Do’s and Don’ts, Swelling Wood Dents
This week we look at working with foamboard, making an impromptu caulking gun, and some painting tips.
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Tips of the Week: DIY Paint Washes, Precise Measuring, Encouraging Others
This week’s specials include how to save big money on paint washes, two great measuring tips, and how to close a hairline gap with a hammer rub.
Tips of the Week: Silencing a Leaky Air Hose, Women’s Work Pants, and the Kenny Rogers Rule
Another fun and hopefully useful collection of tips we’ve run across this week.
Tips of the Week: Spinning Minis, Saving Breadboard Space, and Perhaps the Homeliest Tool Ever
From hobby ideas to electronics prototyping tips to tool inspirations, we cover the spread this week.
Turning an Angle Grinder into a Multitool
Watch one industrious maker turn an angle grinder into a versatile tool for working metal and wood.
Tips of the Week: Cutting Resin with Microbeads, Herringbone CNC Tape, Hiring a Machine Shop
Learn the Feynman technique, skip the tabs on your CNC jobs, ID your tools, and learn how to talk to a machine shop.
Hand-Cutting and Fire-Hardening Steel Files Using Ancient Techniques
Making a set of files just like the ancients, from mild, case-hardened steel.
