The electric drill is a compact, lightweight, easy-to-operate and transport machine. It is indispensable in the home workshop, in the garage and at the construction site. In addition to drilling operations, it can be adapted to perform turning, milling, grinding and other work. Many craftsmen create on the basis of a drill homemade machines and accessories for the home workshop. They are used in the garage for simple turning work on wood and metal.
Workshop equipment
Not always with hand drill you can drill a precise hole. If such a need arises, use a stationary drilling machine. It is certainly accurate and safe, which is what you need when processing hard elements with a large diameter drill.
You rarely see such a machine in a garage or workshop, mainly because of the price, it is expensive, in addition, bulky, takes up a lot of space, and is rarely used. The drill on a tripod is a light, easy-to-transport design that will fulfill all the requirements for a bench-top drilling machine.
Stationary drilling device
A home-made machine based on a drill will provide high drilling accuracy in any conditions - it is installed on a workbench tabletop or on the floor. It consists of several elements. The main ones, of course, are the base and the column. The first part is responsible for the stability of the machine installed on flat surface. The second, in turn, allows you to smoothly and very accurately move the drill up and down while drilling.
The steel column does not deform even under the influence of most pressure to ensure the drilling is perpendicular. In addition to high accuracy, it is worth mentioning the safety of work. If the workpiece is securely fixed in a vise on the work table, then there is no risk of injury during drilling.
The drill-based desktop machine enables precise drilling of holes in complex shapes such as round, oval and 90 degree angles. A home master cannot do without it, where the tool is not used intensively. For the manufacture of a desktop vertical drilling machine based on a drill, you can use ready-made racks or tripods. They are quite usable.
As the manufacturer guarantees, the vertical drilling stand will come in handy wherever there is a need to perform drilling operations during repairs. metal structures, wooden parts. The product is made from quality materials, provides stability and reliability of fastening, so that the quality of work is good. This type of product is excellent for reducing the time to work.
In private garages you can find homemade machines, where tripods from photographic enlargers and overhead projectors, jacks and automobile steering racks of a suitable design are adapted as a stand for a drill. There are machines made entirely of wood. The drill is a universal mechanism with which you can design home-made woodworking machines.
Woodworking Machine
Using a drill as an electric drive, you can assemble homemade machines and fixtures for the garage. For example, lathe on wood in a few days from a board and a handful of screws. No one makes drawings for the manufacture of machine tools, everything is created according to an invented project.
In addition to homemade drilling and turning equipment home workshop, do it yourself milling machine on wood. For the drive, you can choose an electric drill or manual frezer.
Bed for grinder
Bulgarian, like an electric drill, quickly entered our lives and took a place universal tool. With it, you can cut pipes, sheet metal and rods, stone and tiles, grind and polish. She found wide application in a car service when repairing car bodies. For convenience, you can do cutting machine.
To make it cheaper and easier, they make it from wood. As in every machine, a base is made, the material can be a chipboard measuring 400 x 400 x 20 millimeters. From below, to the plate with screws, attach the legs in the form of two rails 40 x 40 millimeters. Attach a bar 100 millimeters high and 50 millimeters thick to the top of the plate. Fastened to the bar with screws door hinge with long plate. The grinder is attached to the plate with a clamp. Everything, a home-made fixture for a home workshop that acts as a cutting machine is ready. For safe work a machine vice is installed on the base.
Garage sharpener
Emery, electric grinder, grinding machine - this is the name of the tool, without which the workshop cannot do, private garage, car service. Sharpened the most necessary device for car repair, plumbing, tool sharpening, grinding metal surface crafts. It is not necessary to buy this useful mechanism; it is quite possible to get by with a homemade product based on an electric drill. First you need to choose a place on the table and use two wooden brackets 40 mm thick and two screws to fix the drill.
To stop a hand or tool, you need to make a handguard. To do this, you can use thick-layer plywood with a thickness of 20 millimeters. The handcuff is attached to the table, exposed under the emery wheel. In order for the chips to fall freely on the floor and be able to use emery wheels of different diameters, a rectangular hole is cut out in the handpiece with a width slightly larger than the thickness of the abrasive tool. To adjust the handrest to different heights, you need to install a set of plywood plates and secure with screws. Close the upper plane of the handbrake with a steel plate. Everything, a useful power tool for the home is ready for use.
Milling machines
There is an opinion among woodworking specialists that the router is the most essential tool for carpentry. It can even replace some power tools, such as circular saw, drill and even jointer. There are two main types of cutters:
- submersible;
- edging.
Submersible works as follows: the cutter is immersed in the material and moves along a given contour. The edge cutter does not allow the cutter to be immersed, its milling depth is set in advance and fixed. Power cutters are divided into three categories:
- small from 500 to 1200 watts;
- medium from 1100 to 1900 watts;
- powerful from 1900 to 2400 watts.
Low power routers are light, compact, manoeuvrable, easy to use and allow you to perform all the tasks of a home workshop - this is the best choice for home. Is it true, low power imposes its own limitations. Device with a diameter of up to 32 millimeters, there are restrictions on the length. If you have to make boxes, frames, this machine is enough.
Using an electric drill or a milling cutter, you can make a useful tool for a power tool with your own hands - milling table. Such a device will come in handy if you have to make profile products from wood. For these purposes, you can adapt an ordinary table by reinforcing the countertop sheet metal two millimeters thick.
A milling cutter is attached to the tabletop under the table. A stop board is installed on the table, which moves under fixed size and fixed with clamping bolts. The cutter feed mechanism - an elevator, is made from a conventional car jack, which is installed on metal brackets under the table. Ready homemade pleasing to the eye.
By changing the cutters, you can perform various milling jobs. In general, the device is a professional wood router for the home workshop. It is convenient to choose grooves on it, mill a quarter on the frames, process the configuration of skirting boards.
Electric drill, grinder, hand mill - tools on the basis of which you can create fixtures and multifunctional machines that greatly facilitate work home master.
IN Lately homemade devices and tools were widely used. Masters quite often make them for their own needs with their own hands. This is due to the fact that some of the tools and machines necessary for work are not produced industrially (or are produced in small batches), some are exorbitantly expensive, and some are simply inconvenient for a particular master.
Homemade tools and devices solve many problems or they are designed for one specific task.
Home-made tools and devices are capable of solving many different tasks or they are designed for one specific task (devices of narrow specialization). homemade tool do-it-yourself will simplify the work in the workshop.
Making a lathe
The first thing you can do to equip your workshop is a lathe. Making it on your own is quite simple. Working on such a device, you can process wooden blanks, turning them into various decorative elements.
The main elements of the machine are a stand with supports and a bed. The stand and supports are usually made of timber or boards, while the assembly of the structure is carried out using self-tapping screws, glue or nails.
The front supports, to which some parts are attached to rotate the workpiece, are fixed on the frame according to the following algorithm:
- First of all, the lower part of the support is attached, to which a pair of sliding bearings is screwed. This is done as follows: a wooden block is taken (the length of the block should be equal to the length of the workpieces planned for processing), loops (made of metal) are attached to this bar and a metal tube (made of bronze, copper or brass) is soldered to the loops using a soldering iron, after which the tube is sawn, and the bearings, which are obtained in this way, are installed on the lower part of the support and covered with a wooden lining (it is the upper part of the support).
- Next, a mandrel with one sharp end is inserted into the bearings. Needles are soldered (or welded) into it. A pulley should be attached to the opposite end (along the axis). It is connected with a belt to the motor shaft.
- After that, install the rear support. It should be able to be installed almost anywhere. To ensure this, it must be provided with a guide and special fasteners (bar or nut).
- After the manufacture of the supports, they proceed to the manufacture of the stand. It is designed to support the cutter and can be installed at any point. To do this, it is equipped with a nut, which will allow you to move the stand along the length of the bed.
- When the above work is completed, all parts are combined into one, after which the first start is carried out. To do this, the workpiece is installed in the gap from the rear axis of the support to the mandrel. In this case, the support must be moved so that its needles enter the workpiece. After that, you can connect the electric motor to the network and process the workpiece with a cutter (or its equivalent).
An important point is the selection of the power of the electric motor, which depends on the mass of the workpiece. For small workpieces (up to 30 cm in length and 10 cm in diameter), motors from an electric drill with a power of 30-400 W are suitable.
Safe work as a grinder
Sometimes it is required to precisely saw off a part of the workpiece from any material. For this, a grinder is often used, but constant vibration and not always convenient places processing complicates the work. In this case, a special machine for working with a grinder will allow to optimize the process. Such “precise” works include the following: cutting several parts from pipes, fittings, metal rods at once, as well as cutting wooden blanks and others of the same length. The difficulty for performing such work will be both marking and aligning the edges: you have to regularly visually control the cutting angle, while taking into account the thickness of the saw blade used relative to the marking to reduce errors. In this case, the saw constantly vibrates, which makes the edges uneven, increases the error in operation and can lead to damage to the disc. To solve these problems, a special machine should be made for the grinder.
Such a machine consists of a pair of frames that have a common axis. The bottom frame must be rigidly mounted on a stand (a sturdy table, floor, metal sheets etc.). The upper frame must be movable and move up and down along the vertical axis, this can be realized by rotation similar to a pendulum or by vertical movement. The frame is made of reinforcement, metal rods, etc. The frame itself for attaching the grinder must be made firmly and reliably to prevent the tool from falling out, the dimensions of this frame are determined by the size and shape of the grinder that they plan to use on the machine.
A collapsible assembly is welded into the lower part of the frame, which consists of a clamp (which has the ability to move) and a clamp-corner. Measuring tools (meter, ruler) can be attached to the machine, which should be equipped with limiters for the precise section of workpieces. This will allow you to set the desired size and not shift it when putting it on. a large number blanks. The accuracy is quite high and is about 1 mm.
Before starting the operation of the machine, the workpiece should be laid according to the marking, then it is fixed to the surface of the machine with clamps. After that, the grinder is started, which is previously fixed on the movable frame of the machine. The start can be carried out using a standard starting device on a grinder or you can mount more convenient starting devices (for example, a pedal type). Such a machine has a number of positive advantages: yews are not required to fix the workpiece, the evenness of the cut is controlled, due to the installation of the grinder, hands are statically released, the processing time of workpieces is reduced, and work safety is increased.
Drilling machine
Often motorists need to drill various details, however, it is not possible to accurately do this in a garage. For this purpose, it is recommended to make a special drilling machine that will allow you to make holes strictly at the specified points with high accuracy.
To make such a machine is quite simple. In this case, a conventional electric drill, slightly modified, can be used as a drilling mechanism. To modify it, you should hold down the start button on the drill itself in the “start” position, and turn on the switch button or toggle switch in the power circuit (it should be remembered that the contacts of such a switch must be rated for 220 V).
For the manufacture of the machine, in addition to a modified drill, you will need: a jack, steel clamps, wooden blocks for linings, a work surface (table), bolts, a base for the structure (metal plate), a wire for connection.
Making the machine is quite simple. To do this, the drill is fixed to the jack (its upper part) with steel clamps, while it is necessary to place lining bars between the drill and the clamp so as not to damage the drill body and provide ventilation. Next, they mount on the table metal plate, which will be the basis. The base is fixed with bolts in place, while it must be in the shape of the letter "P" for fixing from the heel of the jack.
The jack is fixed to the base with a bolt no less than M8. The jack must be fixed on the surface motionless - for this, the heel should be fixed to the surface of the table (or base) at least one more point.
Clamps or vise can be used as work clamps. The working base can be equipped with two rulers, which will greatly simplify the layout of the part.
In this case, the location of the rulers should be similar to the abscissa and ordinate axes.
Work on such a machine as follows. On working surface the part is fixed (using clamps or a vice).
After that, markings are applied to it (or markings can be applied in advance), then the drill is started with the drill already installed. Then the jack with a working drill is carefully lowered onto the workpiece.
How to make tool handles
For various kinds of tools, it is often necessary to make handles (for chisels, knives, files, etc.). For these purposes, it will be necessary wooden block small size from your preferred type of wood. You will also need brass or steel pipes and glue (epoxy).
The first step is to cut the workpiece from the timber right size(under a specific hand). It is better to do this with power tools - the cut will be smoother. Next, the workpiece is polished with sandpaper.
After that, a metal bolster ring made of a pipe is put on the tool, marking is applied along the tool shank on the bar on the sides and on the ends. Next, according to the marking, a hole is drilled for the shank. In this case, the drill should be taken according to the smallest value of the width. After the hole is drilled, it is expanded and shaped into a shank with needle files. At the same time, they are periodically put on the handle to control the axis.
Next, glue is kneaded according to the manufacturer's recommendations and applied to the shank, bolster and to the edges of the hole for the shank, after which the shank with the bolster dressed is mounted on the handle. After that, give time to dry the glue and proceed to finishing handle in the shape of a hand (grip). Do it with sandpaper. Then the handle is varnished.
Owners of private houses and lovers of crafts dream of creating a carpentry home workshop. They buy interesting power tools and try to make their own carpentry tools. For these purposes, they use an electric drill, a circular saw, an electric jigsaw.
Experts advise beginners not to buy cheap instruments. You need to focus on the average price options. In addition to tools, it is necessary to provide shelves and cabinets for storing materials and various small things.
Carpentry equipment
"Advanced" craftsmen have good vise workbenches, rare machines and tools that are very necessary for making furniture:
The ubiquitous grinder
Every man has a power tool called a grinder. Actually this Grinder used for abrasive cutting of metal, stone, ceramic tiles and other materials. For this, a special abrasive disc thickness from 0.7 to 2.5 mm. The diameter of the cutting disc is from 115 to 180 millimeters, it all depends on the hardness of the material being processed.
The peculiarity of this machine is the high speed of the electric motor, for example, the Whirlwind UShM-125 has 11 thousand revolutions per minute. It is this indicator and low weight, only 2.5 kilograms, that excites the minds of home craftsmen to adapt it to perform unusual types of metal-cutting work.
Homemade grinders are available in every garage and home workshop, moreover, each master makes a device for his own needs.
Cutting machine
A home-made option for the workshop is proposed - a cutting machine suitable for cutting corners, pipes, square profiles, fittings. The design of the device is simple:
- Desktop;
- brackets with a return spring;
- platform for mounting grinders;
- emphasis.
For this, a special protection is made, similar to the standard casing that comes with the tool. It has a slide, two handles and a rotary device. The slide looks like a plate measuring 200 x 120 millimeters, with a slot for the saw blade to exit.
The plate is attached on one side to the casing on a hinge, the other to a steel strip with a slot 9 mm wide for sliding along the M8x1.5 stud, which is on the casing for fixing with a wing nut.
Two handles are welded to the casing to hold the sawing machine during operation. Cutting and sawing lumber of small thickness is very convenient, and the high speed of the machine on the carpentry machine makes it easy to cut material up to 30 millimeters thick.
Vertical drilling model
The bed can be made from pieces of a corner 50x50 millimeters and a steel sheet 5 millimeters thick. To do this, weld two corners along the edges of the sheet for the entire length, they will serve as legs. Table size 350 x 200 mm. Weld the bracket on top square pipe 80 mm high for rack mounting.
The stand or guide for the drill is made of a square pipe three millimeters thick. A piece is welded into the upper hole water pipe eight millimeters long. A cable tension mechanism is inserted into it. Stand height 700 mm. The rack is inserted into the bracket and crimped with four bolts - two each on two sides of the square pipe.
The carriage is a movable unit on which the drill is attached. It is made of 50x50 corners, welded together, height 170 millimeters, the eyes are made of a strip three millimeters thick. An axle is inserted into the eyes, on which the cable is wound.
A continuation of the axis is a handle that drives the carriage.
The carriage drive consists of an axis on which a cable and a handle are wound. One end of the cable is attached to the bottom bracket. The upper end of the cable is fixed in the pipe at the upper end of the rack. A special bracket is attached to the carriage with seat under the electric drill. The drill itself is tightened with a special clamp made of a strip 2 mm thick and 40 mm wide.
Homemade turning fixture
There are a lot of home-made designs of lathes for wood. They are united by the presence of four main nodes:
- drive unit;
- bed;
- tailstock;
- assistant.
The difference is only in the choice of drive. Whoever has something from electromechanical devices is installed on the product:
- electric drill;
- Bulgarian;
- milling cutter;
- washing machine motor.
It is possible to improve an already made metal-cutting structure by adding to it additional features. For example, you can place a drilling machine horizontally on a workbench or table. The drive is an electric drill. The tailstock will be a working table in which a hole is drilled along the axis of the drill in the chuck and a thread is cut to screw the fixed center.
Additionally, install the handbrake, fixing it on the movable bracket of the rack. The workpiece is fastened with one end in a trident clamped in a drill chuck, the other end in a fixed center. For a small number of simple parts - a completely good home-made woodworking machine with a fixture and equipment for the manufacture of figured parts obtained by turning.
The list of tools and mechanisms for a workshop or garage is limited only by the area of \u200b\u200bthe premises and the material capabilities of the owner. Despite the fact that many products are made from scrap, the cost of purchased parts and tools needed for assembly is very significant.
Sometimes it is cheaper to get a service in a specialized workshop than to do this work yourself.
DIY manufacturing various crafts, furniture, self repair cars are popular not only because of the innate ability of our people to create. This is also a good savings for the family budget.
However, such a hobby requires special equipment. Every home has basic hand tools, including electric ones. Drill, screwdriver, grinder, manual Circular Saw, jigsaw.
These devices facilitate the work of the home master, but with their help it is impossible to perform the work professionally. The home workshop should be equipped with compact machines.
Overview of homemade machines for the home workshop - video
Such equipment is offered in abundance by specialized stores.
Equipping workplace with such an arsenal, you can make anything. But the high cost of the tool negates the savings in the production of crafts.
There is only one thing left - to make machines with your own hands. Homemade equipment can work just as good as the factory one. In addition, constructive know-how can be added to expand the possibilities.
Homemade machines for a home wood workshop
Wood lathe
It can be made from existing tools. Enough strong table, or just a massive board mounted on legs. This will be the bed.
A clamping spindle for wooden blanks is optional. As well as a separate drive motor. There is a simple complete solution- electric drill.
If there is a speed controller - generally great. It is fixed in the cartridge drill bit on wood. It needs to be finalized: sharpen the working edge in the form of a trident.
The next mandatory element is the tailstock. In metal lathes, it is necessary to support long blanks. When processing wood on a machine without a clamping spindle, the tailstock is a locking element. She presses the blank to the trident and supports it on the axis of rotation.
Typical design of the tailstock in the illustration. 
The cutter in such a machine is not fixed in the caliper. Wooden blanks are processed with a hand chisel, which rests on a handpiece.
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D la rational use spaces, communications and do-it-yourself garage accessories from improvised materials are used. It is necessary to use the walls, the underground level in the process, place it indoors, organize normal lighting.
Homemade garage fixtures
For comfortable operation of the premises intended for storing cars, you should follow certain recommendations:
Storage areas, racks, workbenches
In 80% of cases, do-it-yourself garage fixtures are built to store accessories, tools, and car equipment. It should be noted that the most bulky parts of the car are sets of winter / summer tires, depending on the season.
It is more convenient to store wheels on brackets of the following design:
- two triangular frames from a corner, connected by jumpers from any rolled metal;
- triangles are attached to the wall, the wheels are installed perpendicular to the supporting structure, slightly falling between the jumpers.
The main nuances of these structures are:
The width of the pit should allow the driver to drive into it without lighting.
Lighting and ventilation
In garages, parallel circuits are more often used. lighting fixtures. One lamp allows you to use a specific area, several devices are turned on during a major repair, a visit to the cellar. Minimum flow electricity is provided. Daylight devices have a large resource.
Cars use poisonous, harmful fuels and lubricants, so do-it-yourself garage ventilation devices are becoming relevant, allowing you to create air exchange. The inflow is organized from below:
- garage - vents in masonry, protected by bars;
- cellar - a pipe from the garage or from the street.
The hood is mounted under the ceiling of the cellar, the roof of the garage or has the form of air vents in the main walls at the highest points.
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Useful gadgets for a garage with their own hands can be made from used utensils, inventory, materials left after the construction. For example, by gluing the lids of plastic jars horizontally / vertically, the owner gets a convenient transparent dish for equipment or hardware, which is always at hand.
Homemade machines
From the power tool, you can also assemble fixtures for the garage:
- drilling - a drill fixed with clamps in a fixture that moves with a gear along a rail;
- cutting - clamped in a similar way with an angle grinder with a tool for metal or wood;
The advantage of the machines is more precise positioning of the tooling relative to the workpiece. The equipment turns out to be collapsible, the drill and angle grinder can be removed mono, used for its intended purpose.
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Hydropress
The simplest design is obtained from a car hydraulic jack. For pressing out / pressing in bearings, pressing / compressing parts, you will need to build a frame and a removable movable stop. The frame consists of 4 channels welded to each other. At the top, the structure is reinforced with stiffening ribs (kerchiefs), at the bottom, transverse corners are added to give the frame stability.
The stop is tightened in the normal position to upper crossbar frames with powerful springs. A hydraulic jack is installed between them, as necessary pressing the stop to the lower crossbar of the frame. The press force is regulated by a jack, dimensions working area are selected depending on the size of the workpieces.
