Style At Home

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Give a glass side table a luxe revamp. Spray the frame in metallic paint. Cut marble sticky back plastic to the same size as the glass top, plus 5mm all round. Stick onto the glass, smoothing with a soft cloth as you work. Trim the excess plastic and

RC Car Action

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It’s never a good time to juggle wires when you have a burning hot soldering iron in your hand. To keep wires manageable while soldering, use an alligator clip to keep them together. Tinning the wires beforehand will make the job even easier. An uptu

that's life

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Most people forget that a dishwasher can be used to wash more than just dirty dishes! I throw in my kids’plastic toys and they come out squeaky clean. Sophia Price, North Island, NZ For a makeshift speaker, put your phone in an empty glass or ja

Scootering

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In common with many early Series 3s, our LI had a cracked footboard. The obvious solution was to fit a strengthening plate but that would require either welding or visible bolts and neither of those solutions fitted with our idea of retaining the ori

Sports Collectors Digest

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Locating these vintage Slurpee cups in decent or better condition remains doable, but more and more those with fading, smudged or missing paint are common enough, and let’s not forget about possible chips and cracks. Like a no-look, behind-the-back p

Woodcraft Magazine

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I’ve always loved using my HVLP sprayer, except when finishing small projects. That’s because it’s inconvenient and wasteful to mix up small amounts of finish for the large can, which also doesn’t work as well when it’s mostly empty. I was agonizing

American Farmhouse Style

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• 1" furring strips • 1x3" pine (to trim the top of the wall) • Construction adhesive • Nail gun • Measuring tape • Saw • Wood putty • Optional: Caulk • Paint of choice and paint supplies 1. Prepaint the wall in your chosen color and let it dry overn

Woodsmith

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Chamfering Edges. Jared Huber of Appleton, WI, found a new use for his card scraper sharpener guide. Jared realized that the 45° fence on the guide was the perfect tool to chamfer the edges of thin parts. The file leaves a smooth surface and the fenc

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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* Small mirror, 30cm diameter * 0.5cm thick MDF board, 50cm diameter * A3 sheet of paper * Assorted driftwood * No More Nails grab adhesive, or similar product * Scissors * Jigsaw or hacksaw * Glue gun and sticks Size: Varies Rating: Easy This natur

The Shed

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Featuring 18 of the best projects from the last 10 years, The Best of The Shed includes all of our most popular projects. With step-by-step instructions, the 176-page book will take you through a variety of projects, including a pizza oven, a trailer

The Shed

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Featuring 18 of the best projects from the last 10 years, The Best of The Shed includes all of our most popular projects. With step-by-step instructions, the 176-page book will take you through a variety of projects, including a pizza oven, a trailer

Classic Dirt Bike

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There are a number of ways to reduce the weight of a typical British road bike if it is going to be used in off-road sport. The easiest way is to pull the engine and gearbox out and slot them into a better frame, but not everyone wants to do that. Ob

The Shed

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If you are going to weld something, and especially if you want repeatability, you owe it to yourself to get a Rhino Cart TDQ612075-K1 modular fixturing station. This US-made welding table is special because of its system of stops, locks, chocks, and

Chat

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Cut a long foam swimming-pool float in half and put the pieces in your boots to help them stay upright and keep their shape. You can buy the foam floats in your local pound shop. Christine Hamori, Manchester Soak a sponge in distilled vinegar and use

Custom Car

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This four-piece detailing brush set from Laser Tools is suitable for a wide range of uses. The set includes four adjustable brushes – steel, stainless steel, brass and nylon – that can be retracted into the pen body to protect the bristles after use.

Street Machine

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ALOT of fabrication goes into creating the smoothed-out engine bays you’ve seen in Street Machine over the years. In this two-part article, we’ll give you a little insight into what’s involved, starting this month with how to fabricate a flat firewal

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Does your dust pan leave a rim of dirt after sweeping? Instead of a dust pan, wet the edge of newspaper sheet, lay it on the floor, sweep dirt over the wet edge onto the paper, then fold up and dispose of it. ■

Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

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A tap is designed to cut threads into a hole in a piece of metal while a thread restorer is designed to repair an existing thread. Running a tap through an existing thread that has slight damage can cause even more damage. A thread restorer does not

Your Home

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Part pegboard, magnetic memo board and storage, this versatile, easy-to-make plywood design is the DIY solution to a messy desk. Paint it in your favourite colours and choose the size and shape of each section for a board that’s fully customised to f

Pick Me Up

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Now is the perfect time to give a little love to your old garden furniture and restore it back to its former self! With help from Wilko, we show you how to revive your tired pieces in a few simple steps, so you have a perfect haven to enjoy the weath

Old Bike Australasia

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Oil Fighter is a new product from CRC designed to easily and quickly remove oil, grease and other stains from concrete and other porous surfaces – such as most workshop floors and driveways. It’s simple to use. Just wipe off any excess oil, spray it

American Survival Guide

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How to build a universal autofeeder What you will need: • (1) 5-gallon food-grade plastic bucket with lid and wire carry handle • (1) Stiff tin pan with 2- to 3-inch lip (Pan should be at least 3 inches larger in diameter than the base of the bucket)

Old House Journal

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The 8-Cut Scraper has eight sharp cutting edges in a single blade, beveled to prevent surface damage. The scraper may be flipped and rotated as needed, and the easy-grip knob allows you to apply more pressure on stubborn paint or caulk. $74.99. Eco-S

Shooting Times & Country

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Most shooters these days are content to run a cleaning rod down the bore, squirt in oil and wipe it out. But cleaning used to be taken a lot more seriously. One product was Young’s Wool Fat Jelly. Instructions stated that “if the wool fat jelly is to

Period Living

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Douglas Kent, technical and research director at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), answers your queries Q The joints of one of the otherwise sound old windows in my cottage have become loose. What can I do? Window joints lo

Poolside

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When constructing a beautiful new pool, or renovating an existing one, how do you create the “wow” factor in your glass pool fencing? Aqua Vista Glass, the supplier of glass pool fencing for this stunning modern pool, is sharing its secret: the glass

Old House Journal

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Segue easily between sanding rough surfaces and smooth with the Rotex RO90 DX-FEQ. The multimode sander can switch from circular to delta pads in seconds, without tools. Settings include random orbital, polishing, and a gear-driven aggressive mode th

Simply Sewing

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Now I know that creating surface pattern design is an option, little details in my day-to-day world are a source of inspiration. I recently found colour inspiration on a trip to Mexico – lots of deep rusts in paint, ironwork, and varnished wood – as

Inside Out

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A timber deck generally needs a good clean at least annually. For best results, wash it first with a product such as Cabot’s Deck Clean ($41 per 4L at Bunnings). This will rejuvenate your timber and prep it for a recoat. Before recoating with a stain

Cottage Life

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I built my bunkie from the ground up, but the thing that impresses my guests most is how the ends of the deck boards follow the shape of the adjacent rock. It looks amazing, but the technique is simple: scribing involves using a compass to transfer i