For Popular Mechanics ' th anniversary, we decided to do something special: We dived into our archives to find the best, handiest, and most helpful tips ever printed in PM. It's more than a century of DIY wisdom. You can read the introduction to the project here.
Save this article for later by pinning it. For more ideas, follow Popular Mechanics on Pinterest. Enlarged screw holes can be quickly repaired, we said in March , by filling the hole with a wooden golf tee. Use a hacksaw to saw the tee flush with the wood's surface, then sand and finish. Our September issue showed how to store an ironing board upright in a closet by mounting a towel rack to a wall. The board's tip slips up under the Wooden Watch Diy Equipment chest-high rack. It's still a good idea. At the right height, a rack or a rig made of steel pipe fittings could support brooms or lumber.
File a notch in a frequently used key's top to locate it without looking through the whole set. To set up a simple worklight, coil gauge copper wire around a flashlight's barrel and twist the rest into a base. On band saws, router tables, or other shop equipment that requires a wrench to make routine adjustments, we advised in July Press the wrench into a lump of weatherstripping putty and stick the putty on the side of the shop tool.
The wrench will be easy to locate for quick changes of bits and blades. The August issue told a farsighted person to punch a pinhole in cardboard and peer through it to read small type. It still does the trick! And it works today for an iPhone. Nail 2 x 4 blocking between studs when framing walls, we suggested in November The boards provide sturdy mounting bases for heavy pictures or recessed medicine cabinets. Record the positions upon installation. Depression-era milk thieves met their match with the bandit-proof box we showed bolted to a porch in August A hole in the top permits the bottle to be set inside, and four strips of spring brass prevent its removal.
The owner unlocks a panel to access the milk. Home-security technology evolved in PM's pages, from safes made of spare tires to whole-house diagrams on burglar deterrence. Punch holes in a paint-can rim with a 4d finish nail. This helps paint along the rim drain into the can. Getting a wood handle's grain direction right ensures the strength of a replacement handle.
Mount the new handle so that the oval rings of wood grain run up and down the sides of the handle relative to the blade. Handles break when the tool is strained along those ovals.
A look down the blade toward the face of the handle should reveal only straight, parallel lines of wood grain. A tire tip from December To locate a pinhole leak in a bike tire's inner tube, hold it under water and watch for bubbles. Our August issue recommended taping small blocks of Styrofoam to eyeglasses' bows, or legs, while fishing or boating. If the glasses go overboard, they'll float. An old glove can become a miniature tool belt with a few modifications, according to our January issue.
Cut a slit in the cuff of the glove so a belt can pass through it. Then snip off the fingertips and thumb tip. Worn on a hip, the open fingertips can conveniently carry pliers and large screwdrivers. The January issue showed how to reuse a bleach bottle to ease action on a heavily laden drawer.
Mount the strips at the bottom front corners of the drawer frame. The drawer slides on the strips, reducing friction. A V-shaped strip of metal affixed to the door tapers to a point just above the keyhole. The key's tip slides along the metal to find the keyhole opening. Use sandbags to help glue down irregular shapes, such as veneers on uneven surfaces. To stop a door from swinging while working on its lock or knob hardware, our November issue suggested this: Notch a block of wood to fit the edge of the door.
Set the block on the floor, wedge the notch onto the door's edge, and step on the block. The solution: Set a 2 x 4 on the roof rack, running the length of the car. Secure the sheets to the rack's side rails. Twist the 2 x 4 so that it stands on its narrower edge.
The 2 x 4 will bow the sheets so they're rigid enough to withstand the wind. Clapboard siding, then and now, is beveled. The end that would face downward on a home's exterior is wider than the end facing upward.
Nail the siding to the shelf with the flat face down and the wide end at the shelf's edge. This tilts the shelf toward the wall. Tighten a C-clamp onto a ladder rail, our February issue said, to keep a hammer "safely at hand" when working up high. To make a clip-anywhere camera tripod, braze bolts onto the clamp body and fit tripod heads onto the bolts. To move large furniture, weld casters onto C-clamps and clip the clamps to the furniture legs.
When removing a brake caliper, first use a c-clamp to pinch off the brake hose to minimize fluid loss. To keep from losing track of a drill-press chuck key, mount a clothespin to the press and clip the key in the pin's jaws. Flipping the stick allows either thickness of stock to be pushed safely and securely toward Diy Wooden Watch Band the blade.
Trash-can lids still pose a problem that PM tried to solve in December , when we suggested mounting two discarded doorknobs on each face of the garbage-can lid.
The knobs act both as a handle and a hanger. Grab the knob on top to remove the lid, and use the knob on the underside to hook it over the can's edge. This leaves both hands free to deal with trash. Wood screws turn more easily in tight-fitting holes when threads are rubbed with a slightly wet bar of soap.
Fasten the metal portion of a three-ring binder to the top of a stepladder, we said in August Mount the binder so the rings face downward.
Tools with holes drilled in their handles can be stored and replaced. When the ladder is to be moved, snap shut the rings and tools will be securely held. The rings can also be used to hang cleaned brushes to dry. To prevent splintered edges as a saw blade exits plywood, press masking tape onto the back side of the cut, we said in May On an incline, a hand truck can roll backward and cause an injury, our February issue cautioned.
Reduce the risk by mounting stout fabric straps on the truck's frame above the wheels. Move forward and the straps flap out of the way. Go backward and the straps tuck under the wheels to arrest motion. For readers burdened by correspondence, our November issue offered "one way to avoid the unpleasant task of licking postage stamps. The water in the potato activates the adhesive. Stamps today often adhere like stickers, but a spare spud can still be used to moisten a pile of envelope flaps.
Fit cotton gloves atop ladder rails to prevent scratches where the ladder rests against paint or masonry. Haul a heavy boulder out of a yard, our June issue suggested, by using an old tire to make a sled. Use a bolt and nut to fasten two thick lumber planks in a cross shape and wedge them inside the tire. Drill a hole in one plank near the end. Loop and fasten a chain through the plank and around the tire. Roll the stone onto the planks; hook the chain to a tractor or a truck to tow away the sled.
The stone rides above grade in the tire opening while the tire edge drags on the ground. Bend the shank and grab the bottle by the nailhead. Saw off the bait end of the trap and screw the remaining part to the door casing. Protect the adjacent surface with a piece of tin. Screw a trap to a trailer to hold a warning flag when towing large objects. Mount several traps to a workshop wall to make a handy rack for gloves, notes, and receipts. Anchor one end of a long tape measure by clipping the tape in a nailed-down trap.
Retrieve dropped, unreachable tools with a trap dangling on a string. Hit the tool with the bait pan. To locate identical positions on opposite sides of a wall, we showed a method using a bar magnet Diy Wooden Apple Watch Stand Lock and pocket compass in October The magnet, attached to a suction cup, holds the position on one side of the wall. On the other side, a compass points to the magnet so the spot can be marked. It's tricky to protect a large push-style handsaw when transporting it along with sawhorses. Our November issue solved the problem.
Cut a saw slot in each end of the sawhorse crosspiece.
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