What tips have you learned in your DIY experience that you wish you knew earlier? Let's learn from each other and share our tips! To keep this thread going come back each day to share a tip and read the latest posts. :yes:
Working in IT, I have amassed quite a collection of magnets that came out of defunct hard disk drives. These are powerful magnets that will give you a nasty pinch if you get a finger caught between it and and piece of ferrous metal.View attachment 741403
A large magnet will find the nails in wood ashes from burning rather than pulling them all prior to burning .
It will also find small screws , nuts . washers and cap screws you dropped in the tall grass when the lawn tractor broke down on the back 40 .
My mom wouldn't let us keep urine in the trunk. Not that we wanted to.Winter survival.....
Ma always kept 2 coffee cans in the trunk.
1 had a candle in it for heat.
1 for urine.
As a kid, we never got stuck, but I do remember using one of those cans...Don.
IMO nothing looks more tacky than painted hinges. Looks good until the first time you open the door.gma2rjc said:Does anyone know if this will work for the hinges on a door? Will the continuous opening and closing of the door cause the new spray paint to wear off?