Makeshift Engineer | Quick, cheap projects you can do yourself!

3D-Printed Drain Adapter 2.0

Five years ago I made a drain adapter that connected my washing machine and a spin dryer to a drain

An old recliner sat unused in our living room for the longest time because it was missing a handle to

An old recliner sat unused in our house for a number of years because the lever that controlled the footrest

The Problem Our 30+ year-old Tatung rice cooker (大同電子鍋) has been missing a knob on the on-off switch like forever.

Our apartment is pretty old, and with old things, stuff sometimes just starts coming apart. The doorknob on one of

The locking tabs on my plastic toolbox fell off recently. I was able to quickly fix it with just a

The nose bridge on my swim goggles broke and I didn’t have a replacement part for it. A search online

The door on our 30+year-old refrigerator was sagging and it was letting air inside causing condensation near the top. It

The cheap toast oven we’ve been using for nearly two years finally died on us. The heating elements simply would

A few days ago, as luck would have it, a flying ant landed on my desk as I was typing