Homemade products from the engine from the washing machine (video selection, photos, diagrams)

1. How to connect a motor from an old washing machine with or without a condenser

Not all "washing" motors will operate with a capacitor.

There are 2 main types of engines:
- with capacitor start (permanently switched on capacitor)
- with a starting relay.
As a rule, "capacitor" motors have three winding leads, power 100-120 W and rpm 2700 - 2850 (washing machine centrifuge motors).

And motors with a "start relay" have 4 outputs, a power of 180 W and a speed of 1370 - 1450 (washing machine activator drive)

Connecting a "capacitor" motor via the start button may result in a loss of power.
And the use of a permanently on capacitor in a motor designed for a starting relay can lead to burnout of the windings!

2. Homemade emery from the washing machine engine

Today we will focus on converting an induction motor from a washing machine to a generator. In general, I have been interested in this issue for a long time, but there was no particular desire to rework the electric motor, since at that time I did not see the scope of the generator. Since the beginning of the year, work has been going on on a new model of the ski lift. My own lift is a good thing, but riding with music is much more fun, so I quickly got the idea to make such a generator so that I could use it to charge the battery on the slope in winter.

I had three electric motors from the washing machine in store, and two of them are absolutely serviceable. Here I decided to convert one of these asynchronous electric motors into a generator.

Running a little ahead of myself, I will say that the idea is neither mine nor new. I will describe only the process of converting an asynchronous electric motor into a generator.

It was based on the 180-watt electric motor of a washing machine made in China in the early 90s of the last century.

I ordered magnets from NPK Magnets and Systems LLC, before I had already bought magnets when building a wind farm. Neodymium magnets, magnet size 20x10x5. The cost of 32 pieces of magnets with delivery is 1240 rubles.

Alteration of the rotor consisted in removing the core layer (deepening). Neodymium magnets will be installed in the resulting recess. At the beginning, a 2 mm core was removed on a lathe - a protrusion above the side cheeks. Then a 5 mm recess was made for neodymium magnets. The result of the rotor rework can be seen in the photo.

Having measured the circumference of the resulting rotor, the necessary calculations were made, after which a strip template was made of tin. Using a template, the rotor was divided into equal parts. Then neodymium magnets will be glued between the risks.

8 magnets were used per pole. In total, there are 4 poles on the rotor. With a compass and a marker, all magnets have been marked for convenience. The magnets were glued to the rotor with “Superglue”. I will say that this is a painstaking business. The magnets are very strong and had to be held tight when gluing. There were moments when magnets came off, pinched fingers, and glue flew into the eyes. Therefore, you need to glue the magnets using protective glasses.

I decided to fill the cavity between the magnets with epoxy resin. For this, the rotor with magnets was wrapped in several layers of paper. The paper is secured with tape. The ends are plastered with plasticine for additional sealing. A hole has been cut in the shell. A neck is made around the hole made of plasticine. Epoxy resin was poured into the shell hole.

After the epoxy cured, the sheath was removed. The rotor is clamped into a drill chuck for further processing. Sanding was carried out with medium grit sandpaper.

4 wires came out of the electric motor. I found a working winding, and cut the wires from the starting winding. I installed new bearings, since the old ones were spinning a little. The bolts tightening the body are also installed new.

The rectifier is assembled on D242 diodes, the “SOLAR” controller purchased several years ago on Ebay is used as a charging controller.

You can watch the generator tests in the video.

To charge the battery, 3-5 turns of the generator are enough. At maximum speed of the drill, 273 Volts were squeezed out of the generator. Alas, the sticking is decent, so it makes no sense to put such a generator on a windmill. Unless the wind turbine will be with a large propeller or gearbox.

The generator will be on the ski lift. Field tests already this winter.

Source www.konstantin.in

4. Connecting and adjusting the speed of the collector motor from the automatic washing machine

Regulator manufacturing:

Regulator setting:

Regulator test:

The regulator on the grinder:

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5. Potter's wheel from the washing machine

6. Lathe from washing machine automatic machine

How to make a wood lathe headstock from a washing machine motor. and a speed control with maintaining power.

7. Wood splitter with a washing machine motor

The smallest single-phase, screw splitter with a motor from a 600 W washing machine. with speed stabilizer
Working speed: 1000-8000 rpm.

8. Homemade concrete mixer

A simple home-made concrete mixer, consists of: a 200 liter barrel, an engine from a washing machine, a disc from a classic Zhiguli, a gearbox made from a Zaporozhets generator, a large pulley driven from a fairy washing machine, small self-grinding pulleys, a drum pulley made of the same disk.

Prepared and put together by: Maximan

The time comes when the "home assistant" who has served you faithfully for many years breaks down, and it is no longer expedient to repair it. There is a need to buy a new washing machine, but what to do with the old one? You can take it to the trash heap, but it will be an act of a non-economic, impractical person, because there are so many useful things hidden in the washer that can do a good job. Let's talk about the use of the engine and other parts of the washing machine in the household. We hope you change your mind about throwing out your old car.

What parts of the car can be adapted?

Everyone knows that an automatic washing machine is a complex household appliance consisting of a fairly large number of elements and the more modern an automatic machine, the more parts it contains. You can read about that in one of the articles on our site. If you conduct a survey of people on the street, then it will probably turn out that every tenth in the garage, shed, in the country has an old washing machine, which seems to be a pity to throw away, at the same time it is not known what to do with it. What parts of the old car can be adapted for the business?

• Email engine. If the old car has e-mail. engine, it is already a treasure in itself. Carefully remove it from the case, disconnecting all the wires, wipe it, wrap it in a cloth and put it in a safe place.
• Drum. The drum of the washing machine is made of high-quality stainless steel, it has a lot of applications, so it must also be removed from the case and stored.
• Manhole cover. It is also a rather useful thing, and not only the cover itself, but also its parts are useful.
• Legs, clamps, hoses, el. wiring. All of this can come in handy anywhere.
• Springs and counterweights. Springs on typewriters play the role of shock absorbers, they are very powerful, and the counterweights are good because they are heavy, but compact - we leave both.
• Washing machine body. After removing everything that is useful, replace the walls of the machine, the case itself can also be useful.

Important! If you are not alien to working with electronics, you can leave the control unit. There are many semiconductor elements on the control board that can be used to repair electrical appliances and to make useful things in the household.

Why use a car engine and how to connect it?

Work email an automatic or semi-automatic washing machine engine can become the basis for very necessary household appliances. The most common application is email. emery for sharpening knives, tools, drills and more. It is not very easy to make such an emery, but it is still possible. The first and foremost problem is how to attach the whetstone to the motor shaft.

The diameter of the grindstone hole, as a rule, does not correspond to the diameter of the e-shaft. from the washing machine. This means that it is necessary to make a flange, which would be pressed onto the shaft on the one hand, and on the other hand it would have a thread in order to be able to put on and fix the grinding wheel. Professional craftsmen recommend adapting a 32 mm steel pipe cut as a flange. What are we doing?

1. We take a piece of steel pipe 32 mm. The length of the trim should be 15-20 cm, a very long one will not work.
2. At one end of the pipe trimming, you need to cut a thread, the thread length should be at least 2 times the thickness of the grinding wheel.

Very important! The thread is necessarily cut in the opposite direction of rotation of the electric shaft. engine. In other words, if the email shaft. the engine rotates clockwise, which means we make the thread counterclockwise, otherwise the whetstone will fly off.

1. We heat the other end of the pipe cut with a blowtorch and press it onto the shaft, after the pipe has cooled, it will firmly connect to the shaft. To strengthen the connection, you can drill with a drill the junction of the pipe with the engine shaft across and screw a bolt into the hole, tighten with a nut. If there is welding, then you can grab the flange to the shaft with it - it will be ideal.
2. Now we take three matching nuts and two matching washers. We screw the first nut onto the flange until it stops, until the thread ends. Next, we put on the washer, then the grinding wheel, then again the washer and nut. We tighten everything well and at the end we fasten the lock nut.

The main thing is done, now our task is to secure the engine as securely as possible. See what holes for fasteners are on the email. engine, everything is individual here, based on this, make a stand. The simplest thing is to twist the stand from small corners, and only then fix the emery on the workbench.

Note! To install the engine on a workbench, you can use a bracket from a washing machine; on some automatic machines, good mounts are installed that can be used.

Another crucial stage in the manufacture of emery is the connection of e-mail. the engine to the mains. Let's consider the simplest option.

• We take a multimeter and check the wiring-terminals of the motor.
• We need the output of the working winding. To detect it, you need to measure the resistance, if the device on one of the terminals shows a value close to 12 ohms, then this is the working conclusion.
• We connect the working output to the mains (220V).
• Without a starting device, our emery will not start even after we have connected it to the network, therefore, in order for the emery to start spinning, it must be twisted with force by hand. Proceed gently and your hand will replace the trigger.

There are other options for using an electric motor from a washing machine, but the principle of application is exactly the same. It is placed on small homemade grain crushers and grass grinders, household concrete mixers and even small sawmills. We will not describe the nuances of making each electrical appliance, draw analogies yourself.

How to use the drum?

The stainless steel drum is a great, durable piece that can be crafted out of a lot. What homemade products can you make with your own hands based on the drum of a washing machine? On the Internet, you can find a lot of videos about how people make barbecue braziers out of a drum, as well as barbecue grills. Indeed, the thing is magnificent, and it costs nothing to do it.

1. We take out the drum from the body of the washing machine along with the pulley and shaft.
2. We put the drum right on the wheel with the hatch up, here is an impromptu brazier.
3. You can cut off the front of the tank (near the hatch) with a grinder to expand the working part of the brazier. It will also be convenient to put firewood in it.

Note! The barbecue from the drum turns out to be great, because the drum is dotted with a huge number of small holes through which air evenly flows to the coals, inflating them and providing the necessary heat.

There are also a lot of videos on the network on how to make a small smokehouse from a drum. A very interesting and practical use of the drum, which we have tried ourselves and will be happy to share our experience. How is a smokehouse made?

Craftsmen also make puffs and futuristic lampshades for a chandelier from a washing machine drum. Poof is easy to make. We take a pillow, cut out a square from the chipboard that matches the size of the pillow taken. We nail the pillow to the chipboard with a furniture stapler. Next, we take the simplest card loop, screw it on one side to the chipboard with a pillow, and on the other to the upper part of the drum wall. We have got a pouf with a hinged lid, and inside the pouf you can store small things.

You can decorate the pouf by painting the outer walls of the drum with paints. In the photo and video on the Internet, there are many options for how to do this. You can also not be fooled and cover the outer frame of the pouf with a beautiful fabric.

Note! The poufs from the drum of the washing machine are quite strong and will serve you for many years.

To make a futuristic lampshade for a nursery, you need to do the following:

1. from a large piece of PCB (or other non-flammable material that does not conduct electricity) we cut a circle to the size of the drum hatch;
2. cut off the bottom of the drum with a grinder;
3. cut a hole in a circle of PCB for a cartridge and a hook;
4. insert the cartridge into a circle made of PCB and hang it on a hook;
5. we securely fasten the PCB circle to the drum with bolts so that the circle completely covers the hatch;
6. the drum with the cartridge hangs from the ceiling, now we screw in the light bulb (through the pre-cut bottom of the drum) and admire the result of the work.

What kind of homemade products are not made by people from the drum of the washing machine with their own hands. We have listed and described only a small part. The drum is adapted as a container for washing mushrooms and fruits grown in the garden. It is very convenient, you put vegetables in a drum, pour water from a hose through the hatch, and water, together with dirt, pours out through the holes. At the exit, vegetables or mushrooms are clean.

The drum can also be used as a container for seedlings or as a growth restrictor for shrubs and perennials. It is clear with seedlings, we will not explain, but let's talk about the limiter in more detail. Some shrubs, which summer residents like to plant in their area, tend to grow in breadth (raspberries, honeysuckle, euonymus). So, if you pour black soil into a drum from a washing machine, and plant, for example, a raspberry bush in it, then bury the drum in the ground, raspberries cannot creep over the site.

There are other uses for a washing machine drum. The main thing is to turn on your imagination, not to be lazy to do something with your own hands, and perhaps you will become one of the authors of a new homemade product created from the drum of a used washing machine.

How to use a manhole door?

We made sure that a lot can be done from the motor and drum of the washing machine, but how to apply the rest of the details, for example, the hatch door. It couldn't be easier. The hatch door of the horizontal loading washing machine is very sturdy and easy to remove. It can be used in many different ways.

Important! The difficulty of installing the hatch cover on a booth or a steam room window with your own hands is to properly mount the lock so that the fixing hook fits snugly.

Legs, clamps, counterweights and other useful little things

In which homemade products can the legs of the washing machine be used? The legs of the washer are good because they are very durable and can be adjusted in height. Screw them to a heavy piece of furniture like a wardrobe and you can make it taller or lower. If you screw the legs from the washing machine to the workbench, you can adjust it in height, which will make the work more convenient.

Clamps and wiring can be used to repair electrical appliances with your own hands. For those who are not alien to working with a multimeter and a soldering iron, this little thing will definitely come in handy. Counterweights can also be used. In old washing machines, counterweights were made mainly of cast iron; they can be scrapped, but they can also be used on the farm. For example, in order to press down a container with cabbage during salting, by the way, a concrete counterweight is also suitable for these purposes, it is small enough and heavy enough.

Summing up, we note that it turns out that some of the details of the "obsolete" washing machine can be used to create things needed in the household. This applies not only to the motor, but also to the drum, hatch, wiring, clamps, counterweights, and the case itself. If you have the time and desire to give the parts of an old washing machine a second life, do it, the energy spent will pay off.

A morally outdated or outdated household washing machine contains a lot of structural elements that, having been in the hands of craftsmen, can be useful in the household. Such assemblies include various switches and relays, pulleys, a stainless steel drum, etc. However, most often there are homemade products using a washing machine engine.

Types of engines from washing machines

Washing machines are equipped with different types of motors depending on the design option. Among them are asynchronous, collector and inverter motors.

Asynchronous motors

Structurally, asynchronous electric motors consist of two main parts - a stationary stator and a rotor, the rotation speed of which can exceed 2500 rpm. Such a motor is easy to maintain, has a low noise level and low cost. However, due to significant disadvantages (large dimensions, low efficiency (efficiency), the complexity of the electrical control circuit, etc.), they are not used in washing machines now. They can be found only in old models such as SM-1.5 "TsNA" (Tambov plant "Revtrud"), "Donbass", "OKA" (Nizhny Novgorod plant named after Y. Sverdlov), "Riga", etc., manufactured before 2000 year.

Collector motors

Collector electric motors are motors that are currently installed on about 80% of washing machines (Vyatka-automatic machine, semi-automatic models of the Eureka series, etc.). Structurally, they are somewhat more complicated than induction motors, since, in addition to the stator and the collector rotor, they require a tachogenerator and current-conducting brushes. Collector motors have:

• small overall dimensions;
• significant starting moment;
• simple control scheme;
• high rotor speed, etc.

Important! At the same time, the collector electric motor requires regular maintenance due to the wear of the collector-brush assembly, and has a high noise level.

Inverter motors

Structurally, inverter (brushless) electric motors, as well as induction motors, consist of a stator and a rotor. However, thanks to the use of direct drive technology and a three-phase inverter type control circuit (the speed is controlled by a frequency converter), the developers managed to eliminate a number of connecting elements, which improved their operational characteristics. They differ from other types of engines:

• high efficiency;
• high power;
• long service life;
• low noise level, etc.

Among the shortcomings, experts note a more complex control scheme, which somewhat increases the cost of automatic washing machines (Indesit, LG, Ardo and their analogues).

Dismantling and connecting electric motors

When removing a used electric motor from the body of the washing machine, it is necessary to take into account some of the nuances.

removed with a capacitor... In this case, the capacitor must be discharged, otherwise you can get an electric shock.
1. On the stator of a low-voltage collector motor installed permanent magnets, alternately connected to the current source... On the body of such a motor there must be an information plate indicating the magnitude and polarity of the connected voltage.
2. Inverter motors dismantled together with the electronic control unit... On the case of the latter there is also a plate (sticker), which indicates the magnitude of the supply voltage and its polarity.

Before starting the engine from the washing machine, you need to understand the purpose of its wires and connect them correctly. They have different colors from different manufacturers, so you must first "ring" them with a tester.

In homemade products, collector motors from washing machines are most often used. They usually have 6 wires. Wherein pins from the tachogenerator are practically not used... Their resistance to ringing is about 60-70 ohms. Having identified these wires, they are taken to the side and fastened with electrical tape (so as not to interfere).

The remaining conductors go to the stator and rotor (2 wires) and to the conductive brushes (2 wires). On the wiring diagrams, they are indicated by colored or numbered arrows. For example, "arrows 1" mark the wires leading to the brushes, and "arrows 2" - to the stator windings. The easiest way determine the conclusions coming from the brushes... They are called from the side of the contacts, after removing the graphite rods. The resistance of the stator winding wires is in the range of 12-35 ohms.

There are also motors with 3, 4 or 5 wires. In this case, a three-wire circuit is used in single-phase motors, where the starting winding (with a lower resistance) connected via a capacitor... In addition, one of the wires can be ground. Pins that do not ring can go to various sensors (for example, a temperature sensor, etc.). The circuit for switching on the electric motor is also important - a star or a triangle.

Having determined the pairs of wires coming from the rotor and stator, connect one by one from the stator winding and from the rotor brush. The remaining two wires are connected to the mains and test the performance of the electric motor.

Advice! For safety reasons, before connecting to the 220 volt mains, the engine must be securely fixed on a fixed base. This will avoid unintentional movement when power is applied.

Homemade products from the engine from the washing machine

The electric motor from the washing machine can be adapted as the main power unit in a variety of designs. Getting started, you must first of all decide on the parts that will be mounted on the shaft of this motor, and ensure their reliable fastening. To do this, it is necessary to equip the motor shaft with a suitable extension.

Modification of the electric motor

The main problem that has to be solved when modifying the electric motor is the inconsistency of the bore holes of the parts that will be attached to the shaft with the diameter of the latter. To mate these parts, it is necessary to make a special adapter (flange). On the one hand, it must have a thread to install the part, and on the other, an element that allows the flange to be securely fastened to the motor shaft.

Most often, for the manufacture of such a flange, a piece of steel pipe with a length of no more than 20 mm and a diameter of 32 mm is used. A thread is cut at one of the ends of this pipe, the length of which must be at least twice the thickness of the nozzle to be installed.

Important! The thread must be cut in the opposite direction to the rotation of the motor shaft. Otherwise, the installed part will fly off, which is unsafe for the user.

The opposite end of the pipe is heated with a blowtorch and pressed onto the motor shaft. After cooling, the flange will be securely fixed. To strengthen it, it is advisable to drill a hole across the joint and additionally tighten the shaft and flange with a bolt and nut. Such revision will allow you to securely fix any nozzle on the motor shaft (a pulley for a belt drive to a compressor, grinding or cutting wheels, cutting blades, etc.). You can use an electric motor modified in this way when creating various homemade products.

To sharpen scissors, knives, drills and other cutting tools, the motor must be fixed to the workbench or other suitable surface. To do this, it is best to make an intermediate frame (stand), on which, using the standard mounting holes, install the engine. The design of the frame must ensure reliable fastening of the assembly to the workplace.

The next operation is setting the grindstone... To do this, you need to prepare three nuts with the appropriate thread and two suitable washers. One nut is screwed onto the flange until it stops, then a washer is put on, then an emery wheel and another washer. This whole "sandwich" is tightened with the second nut. The third nut is used to lock the threaded connection. On this, the creation of emery can be considered complete.

Advice! Such a device can be assembled using even a small electric motor from "Baby" type washing machines.

In a similar way, other simple devices are made, for example, a circular, a grinder (grinder), etc. But if the emery can be started simply by turning it with force by hand (being careful), then when using more complex mechanisms made using an electric motor from old washing machine, a starter is required. How to make such homemade products with your own hands will be discussed below.

By securely fixing the frame with the electric motor to the workbench, you can make a multifunctional lathe designed for processing wood blanks. It includes:

• headstock mounted directly on the shaft of the electric motor;
• tailstock, designed for reliable fastening of the workpiece being processed;
• a handyman providing convenient use of the tool (cutter, chisel, etc.).

The construction of a stationary sawmill begins with the manufacture of a special bed with a technological slot for a saw blade. An electric motor from a washing machine is then installed on it, having previously secured a small pulley for a drive belt on it. The large disc is mounted on the saw blade shaft. The pulleys are connected to each other by a V-shaped or grooved belt.

To make a feed cutter, in addition to the engine from the washing machine, you will also need its drum, in the back wall of which you need to make a hole for the electric motor shaft. Then, having installed the motor on the drum, the cutting elements (2 knives) are fixed on the shaft. The drum should be covered with a lid on top, otherwise the cut raw materials will fly out of it.

Conclusion

When purchasing a new washing machine, you should not throw the unit that has served its life in a landfill. Its constituent parts, and especially the engine, can be used for the manufacture of handicrafts useful in the household, saving a certain amount of material resources on this.

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If your household appliances are broken, then do not rush to throw them away - you can make many useful things from its parts, even fashionable furniture. We will offer many original options that you can make from the parts of an old washing machine with your own hands.

Helpful mechanisms

First of all, you can use spare parts from an old washing machine for the manufacture of mechanisms useful in the household.

Grinding and edging machine

It is quite simple to give a second life to an electric motor of household appliances - its power is quite enough to make a grinder. There are no special difficulties for the home craftsman: fix the engine body on a powerful wooden base (a piece of board is suitable), connect the start and stop button, make an adapter nozzle on the shaft, where the grinding or edging wheel will be attached. Other homemade products from the washer engine can be viewed.

Smokehouse

Many people dream of their own smokehouse to surprise their friends with smoked meats, but there is nowhere to install it in a city apartment. We offer a variant of a mobile analogue - it is made from the drum of the washing unit. We fix a thin sheet of steel in a circle so that the smoke does not leave through the perforations, and in the middle we insert a special grate, where fish and meat will be laid out for smoking.

A hole is made on top for the pipe, where smoke will come out, under the grate we lay out wood blocks or chips from oak, alder, cherry or apple trees. The main task is not to overdo it, the volume of the smokehouse turned out to be small, so you don't need to put much. It is better to find out the norm in advance by an empirical method, from smallest to largest. Experts in this matter assure that five small bars or dry branches are enough.

Those who breed poultry for distribution in urban markets will love this improvement. We mean assembling the feathering machine on our own. It works in the same way as the factory counterpart, only it looks less aesthetically pleasing, but many times cheaper.

The principle of operation is not particularly complicated:

1. Quite a capacious tank is lined with special rubber pins (beaters) with a threaded connection at the end, for a tight and reliable connection with the body.
2. The bottom rotates at high speed and is also studded with rubber beaters.
3. A poultry carcass scalded with boiling water is placed in the tank: chicken, goose, duck or broiler.
4. When turned on, the bottom rotates, the beats force the carcass to move quickly throughout the internal space, as a result of which the feathers fly off in different directions.
5. In 2 minutes, the carcass is cleaned, only minor residues remain in the area of \u200b\u200bthe inner part of the wings, tail and paws.

On the example of some farms, up to 30 carcasses can be plucked in this way in an hour.

Amateurs believe that mechanical plucking of carcasses is damaged, but in practice, their presentation is 100% preserved.

The tank is located horizontally, water is supplied, as shown in the photo. A drain is made from the bottom to remove water and feathers, so the bottom is slightly smaller than the diameter of the drum. The water supply has a beneficial effect on the entire mechanical plucking process.

The most cost part - purchase of pins made of durable rubber: the cost of one is at least $ 1.5, and they need at least 120 pieces, but the costs will quickly pay off.

Interior details

We have listed far from everything that can be made from a washing machine if you have a lot of imagination and certain skills. If you don't need a lathe, that is, there are many ideas for using parts from an old washing machine in the interior of an apartment and a private house - you just have to choose the most suitable one.

Sealed door

The door of the loading hatch from the car can be adapted for a window in a wooden frame - it looks unique and in fact practical. To do this, you just need to cut the door along with part of the front panel of household appliances - the original is ready portholethat fits into almost any interior.

If you live in a private sector in your own house, and there is a shaggy guard in the yard, then he booth you can insert a door from a typewriter, through which in severe frosts he will see everything, but be in a warmer room. With the help of such a homemade product, you can isolate the formidable watchman during the arrival of guests - he sees everyone, but he is not able to bite or tear his clothes.

It must be remembered that the hatch is sealed, so make side holes for ventilation of the booth.

With the help of a stainless steel drum with an abundance of perforations, you can change the interior of your apartment beyond recognition: make a unique coffee table in a trendy hi-tech style. You can decorate it internal lighting from an LED garland to save energy - simple, but it looks original and very unusual.

This is easy to do: you just need to attach a few steel pins to the drum body. Fasten a plexiglass or MDF tabletop on top. A piece of furniture made in this way will decorate the interior of your living room.

Unique poufs

Fantasy has no boundaries - with a certain skill and invention, you can make various puffs from a drum for a children's room. We take a colored pillow and cut out a square of the same size from the chipboard, then fix the pillow on the square with a stapler.

We attach the halves of the card loop to the chipboard and the outer wall of the drum using self-tapping screws and screws, paint the side surface of the drum with bright paint - a unique pouf with a hinged lid is ready, and inside children can store small toys and things.

Such original stainless steel poufs will last for many years, when children grow up, they can be covered with a discreet fabric and put in the living room.

Lampshade in the nursery

To completely change the interior of the children's room with the original homemade lampshade from drum from an old washing machine, you need to do the following:

• from any non-combustible, non-conductive material (textolite, ebonite) we make a circle in size half the diameter of the drum;
• then we cut out a hole for the cartridge and the connection wire;
• insert the cartridge into the prepared hole, fix the circle on the rear wall of the drum, bring the wire out;
• we screw three special hooks into the ceiling, as shown in the photo;
• we attach special cables to the drum body, on which the entire structure will hang;
• we hang the assembled structure;
• we connect the wire from the chandelier to the terminals of the cartridge;
• we screw the light bulb through the inlet of the drum - everything is ready.

To dim the light and create a fabulous interior, you can attach a multi-colored lightweight fabric to the walls.

In the country

If you own a home plot, you can use one of the ideas below. Their implementation does not require special skills and does not take much time.

To help the gardener

Here, the old drum can be used to wash vegetables or mushrooms grown in the garden beds. The container is installed above the gutter, the harvested crop is laid through the linen hole, we water it from the top with a hose, and from below the dirty water flows by gravity through the perforations. The original design works like a colander in the kitchen, only of a much larger size - at the entrance we get clean vegetables or mushrooms, quickly and without unnecessary hassle.

Many gardeners use the drum as growth restrictor fruit shrubs or protection of the root system of rare flowers from pests - not a single rodent can overcome the steel protection, and excess moisture will escape through the system of holes.

You can make unique flowerpot, decorating on the sides with fragments of ceramic tiles of different patterns - beautiful and unusual.

Making a brazier

The drum body is made of stainless steel, and it is resistant to high temperatures, so you can make an original rotating grill, especially since the perforations for blowing are already available on all sides. We take old pipes, if there is no welding of our own, then we invite a neighbor - and in half an hour we have a barbecue in our yard for making a barbecue. To prevent the weather from spoiling the holiday, we build a strong canopy from the rain on top.

Brazier on your own is quite simple to make from a drum from frontal machines, with a vertical bookmark of linen - you need to make minor modifications: cut off the side with a grinder, and add a stable support from below.

From a drum and an electric motor from household appliances, you can make a concrete mixer, a juicer, a universal sterilizer for home preservation, a chopper of grass and cereals for feeding poultry - there is no limit to your fantasies.

For the implementation of ambitious projects, anyone can find information of interest, diagrams and detailed drawings with an algorithm of step-by-step actions on the Internet. Each user, when the washing machine fails, can independently figure out how to organize a second life for it.

Today it is not customary to throw away old household appliances immediately when they fail. For example, from an engine borrowed from a washing machine, you can make very interesting homemade products. Among others, we should highlight feed cutters, generators, and lawn mowers. The latter quite firmly entered the everyday life of modern man and replaced the braid.

With the help of a lawn mower, you can keep your garden in perfect condition. In stores, such equipment is offered at a rather high cost, so it is better to start manufacturing yourself.

Lawn mower manufacturing technology

The most popular homemade products from a washing machine engine are lawn mowers. You can pick up the components for such a device without visiting the store. In each shed, you can find a chassis from a cart or stroller by installing a metal sheet platform on top. If one was not available, then a frame must be made from a metal square corner, at the corners of which the wheel stands are welded.

Pipes can be used to create a handle, but the height should be adjusted to suit your height. It is attached to the platform by welding. When such homemade products are made from the engine from a washing machine, it is better to be guided by technology. In the described case, at the next stage, it involves the preparation of holes in the platform for installing the motor shaft. A mild steel grill or roll bar should be installed at the front of the frame.

The first option is more preferable, since it will extinguish the energy of the knife when it breaks. The lower and upper grille strips are bolted down, and wire can be welded to them. Such a lattice should have a 1 cm gap at the bottom and a 2 cm gap at the top.

The motor will be positioned on the platform and will pass through the prepared hole. A knife is installed on the shaft, and a hole must be drilled in the center, this will ensure the balance of the knife. You can check this feature by twisting the knife by hand; there should be no distortions. The motor is covered with a cover to protect it from the effects of grass. However, it must cool during operation, this indicates the need to make holes in the casing.

Such homemade products from the engine from the washing machine will effectively take care of the garden. However, it is important to follow the rules for assembling equipment. Thus, the cable is connected to the motor, but the cut with the plug and the switch is fixed on the handle.

When using the equipment, it is important to ensure that the drive is not damaged, otherwise the operator may be electrocuted. In order to protect yourself, the metal handle should be protected with a rubber cover.

Making a feed cutter

Homemade products from a washing machine engine have become quite common in recent years. Feeders, for example, are often made by DIYers. It is also necessary to borrow a drum from a washing machine, in the back wall of which a hole is made with a diameter corresponding to the motor shaft.

Drill four holes around the edges to fit the bolts. A hole is made in one of the walls through which the finished raw material will be fed. The cutting part must be fixed to the shaft with bolts. For such a design, you will need two knives, the first of which will look like a propeller with curved blades. It must be positioned as close to the bottom of the drum as possible, it will throw feed and push its particles out.

Method of work

When the described homemade products are performed from the engine from the automatic washing machine, it is important to make a second knife as well, it will be the main tool. It is usually formed from an old saw blade, the end should be tilted towards the bottom, this will increase the performance of the device. Sharpening must be done on both sides.

The unit should be placed on a metal supporting surface, which should look like a stool. The elements are fastened to each other with bolts. In order for the feed not to fly in different directions during the operation of the device, a lid will be needed in which a hole is made to feed the raw material.

Generator making

You can also do some homemade work. A 12V generator from a washing machine engine would be an excellent solution. The work will need neodymium magnets, the size of which will be 20 x 10 x 5 mm. They will be needed in the amount of 32 pieces.

The alteration consists in removing the core layer. Magnets are installed in the recess. On a lathe, you need to remove a 2-mm core, a 5-mm depression is made under the neodymium magnets. If you measure the circumference of the rotor, you can determine the dimensions of the template in the form of a strip of tin. With its use, the rotor can be divided into equal parts, and magnets should be glued between the discs.

When such homemade products are made from a motor from a washing machine, 8 magnets must be used per pole. The rotor will have 4 poles. You can glue the magnets to the surface with superglue, but this task will be painstaking. The poles should be filled with epoxy, for which they should be wrapped in several layers of paper, which is fixed with tape.

To achieve additional sealing, cover the surface with plasticine. Around the hole cut out in the shell, you need to make a neck of plasticine, where the epoxy resin will be poured. When making such homemade products from the asynchronous motor of the washing machine, you need to wait for the resin to solidify, only after the shell is removed. The rotor is clamped into the chuck of the machine for processing. In this case, you need to use medium-grain sandpaper.

In the first step, you should have noticed that four wires were coming out of the electric motor. It is important to find a working winding, and then cut off the old wires. Next, the master needs to install new bearings, because the old ones can rotate rather tightly.

The rectifier is assembled on diodes, and "SOLAR" is used as a controller. In order to charge the battery, only a few turns of the generator will be enough. At maximum speed of the drill, it will be possible to squeeze out 273 watts. In this case, sticking will turn out to be pretty decent, so there is no point in installing such a device on a windmill.

Conclusion

Using a washing machine motor in homemade products has many advantages. Firstly, you do not have to spend money, and secondly, the products can always be disassembled. Thirdly, the device, assembled with your own hands, you can easily repair.