The Idle Hands Workshop

Trying 3 Techniques for Rust Removal

So I’ve been intrigued by several videos claiming this or that and just had to find out for myself. If you’ve seen

Amongst the many things in my collection that need to be restored are several try and miter squares. The first of them

Took a few minutes to go ahead and restore a simple but incredibly useful little tool, the Defiance by Stanley 1299 Utility

I started out on YouTube just having some fun with my weenie dog, never had a plan really, still don’t just kind

Okay, this one’s a real doozy and there’s a collection of 599 woodworking videos covering all kinds of different projects. This is

By popular request I have been working on wrapping up the 9S15 Obzor-3 to round out the S300 complex. Ultimately the 9S15

So I was up late last night, didn’t feel good, so I sat at the computer scouring the interwebs for something that

Having gone headfirst down the rabbit hole I figured why not make a video on making them ???

I bet I got your attention with the “NO LATHE REQUIRED” bit didn’t I ??? To be honest I struggled trying to

So I decided to start a new series here on the site and put together a collection of videos and tutorials on

Down another rabbit hole I went… right up until my CNC crapped out on me, however Vevor is sending me a new

So keeping with the theme of taking a chassis, in this case, the MZKT-7930 Astrolog 8×8 and building all the different variants

After sitting in my workshop for months I finally got around to not only building it which was stupidly simple, but now

So I was doing some more research on the different variations on the MZKT-7930 Astrolog and came across one I THOUGHT would

So following the BAL-E and I believe part of the same complex is the “Grave Stone” radar truck that uses the same

The Bal-E coastal missile defence system uses an surface-launched adaptation of the Zvezda KH-35 (AS-20 Kayak) known as the Bal (Ball) (SSC-6