How to Repair a Plastic Trug

By Stitching it With Cable Ties… This winter I learned that plastic buckets break real easy when it’s cold outside. I managed to break not one, but two of my favorite plastic trugs by being less than gentle with the firewood loading this winter time. But since they don’t need to hold water (I use them for garden waste and for hauling firewood) I repaired them by drilling lots of holes along the cracks and stitching them up with cable ties. Here’s how… Simple and quick repair using cheap materials. …

How to remove rusted & seized brake discs or rotors

Using a small grinder or disc cutter. Occasionally a brake disc gets so rusted in place that it will not come free using normal methods. A ten year old Honda CRV came into the household this week that was riding on it’s original brake discs, yup, ten years old! They were incredibly rusty and corroded. I tried the usual methods to try and dislodge them based on 25 years of doing this kind of stuff. Gentle (and not so gentle) tapping around the brake disc edge with a soft face hammer. …