1. Getting dents out of wood with boiling water.

2. The T Shirt folding trick.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxhr0j0thY[/video]

Using wallpaper paste to remove old wallpaper that won’t shift.

Clean your windows and mirrors with damp newspaper.

That t shirt one is great. How do you get the dents out? Just pour on the boiling water?

On the boxes of tinfoil and clingfilm there are little perforated tabs at the ends that you can poke in so the roll doesn’t fall out every time you take some.

Those little paper sauce pots you get in McDonald’s and the like? They expand at the top to make dipping/getting all the sauce out easier.

To peel an orange the way you would a satsuma or clementine, place orange on table and use the palm of your hand to roll it around. This removes the orange segments from the peel (whilst still inside the orange) allowing you to peel it like a satsuma…

bananas are easier to open from the other end.

bananas are easier to open from the other end.

The banana-stem flick is way more fun

For getting dents out of wood it better to use a damp cloth and an iron. Obviously depends on where the wood is and the size of the dent.

When I did a lot of shooting, my rifles would occasionally get a knock and a ding in the stock. This worked every time on everything from cheap beech to exhibition grade walnut.

To centre disc brake callipers apply the brake while the bolts are loose, then tighten the bolts and release the brake. Perfectly centred with no rubbing.

I thought that ^ was how to do it? Is there another way?

Although – if you have a sticky piston it doesn’t work as well, so then I use a spark plug feeler gauge to adjust whichever side isn’t retracting so far.

Remove permanent marker from a whiteboard (or other surface) by scribbling over it with a non-permanent marker. The solvent that makes it non-permanent will break down the permanent ink making it easy to wipe off.

Separate egg yolks with a pop bottle. Squeeze the bottle, put the neck on the yolk, release and it sucks up the yolk whole.

Good thread.

akd95 – Member
To centre disc brake callipers apply the brake while the bolts are loose, then tighten the bolts and release the brake. Perfectly centred with no rubbing.

This has NEVER worked for me.

In an emergency, you can use fresh water instead of brake fluid. Will obviously boil if you overheat them, but good enough to cruise home on.

Clean your windows with damp newspaper.

Further to that, wipe horizontally on the inside and vertically on the outside so if you get any streaks you know which side they are on 🙂

In an emergency, you can use fresh water instead of brake fluid. Will obviously boil if you overheat them, but good enough to cruise home on.

Can’t really imagine a scenario where this would come in useful…. happy to be enlightened though.

You can find out if an egg is hard boiled or not by trying to spin it around on a hard surface, or gone off if it floats in water.

Peel ginger by scraping with the edge of a teaspoon. No waste.

You can remove mug ring marks on a nice table using a hot air gun
Carefully
From a little distance away

Chop spring onions at an angle to stop the little bits rolling all over the kitchen. If I had known this for the past 10 years…

Slip a piece of heatshrink tubing onto the ends of your gear/brake cables then slip on a nipple, pull the heat shrink tubing back over the nipple then apply heat to shrink the tubing – far neater than a simple crimp and a doodle to remove if necessary.

Peel ginger by scraping with the edge of a teaspoon. No waste.

wash and grate with the skin on, even less waste

A pillow under the hips increases enjoyment

One over the face makes it better.

We40 iaS very good to clean up taps and showers

Rich, you dog!

You can remove stains from your trousers by rubbing the same fabric on it.

Obviously, this can be extended to other fabric items….not just trousers.

In an emergency, you can use fresh water instead of brake fluid. Will obviously boil if you overheat them, but good enough to cruise home on.

What sort of brake fluid? DOT 4 or Mineral oil? I’ve heard baby oil can be used instead of mineral oil in a pinch.

Paint away and too the light, rather than strokes across – you don’t see the brush strokes as much when it does.

*most* cars have an arrow next to the fuel gauge symbol on the dial to indicate which side the fuel filler flap is…

Also, when filling up your chainsaw, ALWAYS fill the chain oil first. That way, you’ll never forget… 🙄

Here an STW one. To clean the glass on your woodburner, use damp newspaper dipped in a tiny bit of ash from the bottom of the burner. Makes it so easy.

To stop your cycling glasses steaming up, particularly when it’s raining, rub a bit of washing up liquid on the inside of the lens with a bit of kitchen roll. Centering the disc brakes helps if you do a quarter turn on the alternate clamps and tighten up gradually.

Pillow over the face made me spit my cake out 😀

Store canned goods like baked beans, spaghetti, chopped veg and so on upside-down. That way when you open one and shake it out the contents all come out in one go rather than you having to spend a fortnight trying to retrieve the last few beans clinging tenaciously to the bottom of the tin.

FFS! That t-shirt thing! Why would you even want to do that?

GET IN THE **** SEA!

Cougar – Moderator
Store canned goods like baked beans, spaghetti, chopped veg and so on upside-down. That way when you open one and shake it out the contents all come out in one go rather than you having to spend a fortnight trying to retrieve the last few beans clinging tenaciously to the bottom of the tin.

Or turn canned goods upside down before opening.

matt_outandabout – Member
Paint away and too the light, rather than strokes across – you don’t see the brush strokes as much when it does.

Or…thin your paint properly to prevent brush marks 😛

With the snow falling…. If you’ve got a fire / wood burner a scattering of the the ash makes packed down snow and ice non-slippy.

If you’ve gubbed the heads of screws (or bent them) and can’t get them out take the bit-holder out of the drill driver and clamp the screw in the chuck instead

If you get expanding foam or gorilla glue on your hands (it will practically tattoo you if you let it set) you can clean it off with WD40 so long as you do before it goes off

and……

😯

😀

and

😯

Use the fuel filler cap to hold the pump trigger open when you’re filling up your car.
Walnuts are good for filling light scratches in furniture and floors.

You can get rid of those white rings on polished tables, caused by hot mugs, by rubbing on meths, and lighting it for a second before wiping off.