Greetings to all metal lovers. We, garage welders, cannot do without the help of homemade products. Today I want to show some of my ideas to facilitate welding and plumbing work, I think many handy people will be interested.
Years ago, I came up with a homemade clamp that holds sheet metal to the frame when welding. The trick of this clamp is that it works over a large area of sheet metal and is pressed with your foot! This is a pedal clamp.
You can read about this thing and watch the video HERE
Homemade jig welding table on wheels!
Quite simple and mobile design of the welding table. I use this table both for welding small parts and for larger ones, where a flat plane is needed - doors, gate leaves, sideboards for trucks.
You can read the article with the video HERE
To make a pipe cut into a pipe at any angle, you can use a simple solution, this is a marking of the cut using wooden barbecue skewers.
Such an insert turns out to be dense and without gaps, which means that such a joint will be welded quite simply and quickly.
You can read the article HERE
Trestles for welding metal products. A simple, reliable structure that can be loaded with rather heavy things for welding. On such trestles, I welded bodies for Kamaz, and they weigh not one hundred or two hundred kilograms.
You can read the article HERE
A butterfly, a simple homemade product made of two metal plates welded together with a simple door hinge. This thing can help if you need to dock a profile pipe on the hang, if you do not have an assistant.
You can watch the article with the video HERE
This is my irreplaceable boat mate. An elementary design, but with the help of this piece, you can safely cut corners, round and shaped pipes with a grinder.
There are two articles about her on the channel, read the first article HERE
Second article HERE
And this is a classic for welders and fitters. Homemade clamp for pressing one part to another. The clamping force is obtained due to the lever. There are hundreds of popular names for this homemade product, look in the comments to the article.
You can watch the article with the video HERE
Homemade sheet metal carrying grips. Also a simple design and a minimum of metal for manufacturing.
You can read the article HERE
Friends, there are many links in the article, you may not familiarize yourself with all of them at once, but if this topic is of interest to you, then look at several approaches. Some homemade products can be very useful to you.