diy

So I went out shoe hunting, and shoes, like everything else, have increased in cost. Plus, I just can't seem to find any styles I like. I came home, scrolled for hours on Amazon, and still nothing. I had an older pair of shoes that weren't in to bad of shape, so I took them out yesterday and...

I have a desk with a strange lip on it since it's real wood and I can't seem to fit my monitor stand clamp to it easily. I came across this video with a desk similar to mine, and it looks like I am going to have to fabricate something similar to get it to work. I took some measurements at lunch...

How many of you cut your own hair? I always used to until about 20-25 years ago. I usually go twice a month for $20 a pop, that's $480 a year :oops:. I did buy myself a nice cordless Wahl clipper a couple of years back. My hair lady is out on vacation for a couple of weeks and couldn't take it...

I never knew that you need to maintain a cutting board with oils and wax. But the good news is you can bring then back to new. I am in the process of restoring one right now. Then I will sand it down using the correct grits of sandpaper, then I will seal it with the oils, and once dry put a wax...

I am thinking about making a homemade stand for all my headphones so I thought I would start a collection of examples. Add some if you come across some for examples.

Anyone use rechargeable batteries? I buy a lot of AA and AAA batteries with kids since so many things use them. I have some nice Eneloop batteries that I bought awhile back, but have been looking into a better charger for it, instead of the one that came with it. The last few nights I have been...

So I've been looking into air purification lately. I have an 18 year old Holmes tower room purifier that I originally bought for white noise. I never wanted to spend $500+ for the big ones (home or shop), so I came across a very simple but effective DIY method. This can be used for anything...

I ran across this guys channel last night, and I like he compares real world things. For a D.I.Yer this is great info. Here are a couple of sample videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCvfQD8TqkHis Youtube page with more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng/videos

Built an entire Picnic table yesterday. I thought it would had been a harder job. Only took a couple of hours. Wood material ran about $83.00 followed by about $35 in hardware. We also went a little higher with the legs so it wasn't so low to the ground. Now I need to get some sort of stain and...

So we had a small shop vac that my Sister gave me when she moved. My Mom and other Sister were over for Mother's Day and they went to use the little shop vac. Well it wouldn't work. When they were getting ready to leave I saw them taking it with them. I said where are you taking it and they...

So we had an old fire pit that the old people left here. Basically the inside of a big steel rim buried in the ground. My boss at work has 6 pallets of real nice rock that was meant for the side of a house. He said I could have as much as I want. Said they never used it on a job and got paid to...

I saw this yesterday and it seems like a fun little project that would be fairly cheap to get into. Basically uses items found at Walmart etc. and you using a silicon mold. %5Bimg%5Dhttps%3A//i.imgur.com/wX6lhRX.jpg[/img] The whole creation process Where to buy the molds

Anyone do a lot of solder work?  I've generally not been the greatest at this, but one sister-in-law had brought a number of poorly treated electronic devices that needed some work.  I've soldered a 3.5mm jack onto something that was torn off before, so she had hoped I could fix them.  They've...

Ordered some new headlights for my truck old ones were very yellow and cloudy (which I tried to actually clean with one of those headlight restoration kits). Got them in the mail tonight and went out there. Spent maybe a total of 20 minutes and replaced everything. Here is the kicker they even...

Pretty amazing. All you need is a can of Coke and some aluminum foil. http://imgur.com/a/yoekX

For some reason I started looking at solar power kits tonight on amazon, then that led me to Youtube videos. Has anyone ever looked into them? It looks like they have come along way. 100 watt system 400 watt system Watching some Youtube videos people really get into them. If I had a camper...

With the new place I noticed that the smoke alarms were the hard wired kind. But when you were pressing the test button they didn't work at all. Just to think these old people lived here 3 years without working smoke alarms. Anyways I ordered some new ones that we installed today. I went with a...

Pretty sweet device! http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1183/diyssd01dh2.jpg http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=836

This is pretty sweet for the money. Cheap SSD! http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3461/21408cfssddi8.jpg http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4255

What's your favorite store?  Why?  Did I leave any out?