Save time, make work easier: 9 useful tips for a drill and screwdriver

Sometimes the lack of some tools takes time and complicates the work. For example, you need to knit reinforcement, but there is no special pistol! In order not to waste precious hours searching for a tool, you can make a hook from a thick nail and pull the wire with it! We will tell you about such useful little things. Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel - it's interesting with us!

We drill exactly

It is important that the holes are perpendicular to the surface. It is difficult to achieve such an effect without special devices: if the hand does not flinch, then the eye will fail. You can drill exactly in two ways.

First: using clamps to fix the flask from the building level or the level itself on the instrument - this is great when working with vertical surfaces. But here the option is a bit controversial: the level will show only up / down deviations, and the rest must be monitored visually.

The second method is equally convenient for walls, ceilings and floors. To use it, you need to make a volumetric corner in order to apply a drill to it during operation. And also the depth of the holes can be adjusted with the height of this corner.

If you need to drill a hole of a strictly defined depth, you must mark the distance on the drill. It is more convenient to do this with electrical tape. After gluing the tape to the drill as a mark, you need to leave a small flag so that it does not allow the drill to go deeper below the intended level.

Nozzles and other applications

Drilling the ceiling is not an easy task: hands are numb, and even dust flies into the eyes. To prevent dust from getting on your face, you should make a nozzle from a plastic or paper cup, which will act as a dust collector.

Another option for the nozzle is a brush. More precisely, in this case, you get a turbo brush. It effectively and quickly removes dirt from the surface, and can be used in hard-to-reach places. It is convenient for her to clean containers; remove dried cement mortar, paint (using special reagents).

You don't have a grinder at hand, but you need to shorten a few bolts? It's simple: the bolt is clamped into the chuck, the engine makes it spin quickly, and a simple hacksaw for metal cuts it. Fast, convenient, safe!

Sometimes it is necessary to sharpen the tool urgently, and there is nothing at hand except a drill and sandpaper. The solution is simple: fix or glue a strip of sandpaper to the cartridge and use an improvised sharpener. The glue, of course, will not update the cartridge, but if there is nowhere to go, this is a way out of the situation.

How to screw a hook into a wooden wall quickly? With a door key. It needs to be fixed in the cartridge, and the nozzle is ready! To make things go better, you first need to drill a hole of slightly smaller diameter under the hook, and then screw the fasteners with a screwdriver.

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