Do-It-Yourself

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Welcome to the Wikibooks Do-It-Yourself Kit. Contained here are some of the coolest projects you'll ever find, from how to make your own biodiesel to canning your own food, to building a railgun!

[edit] Home projects guide

• Introduction - Why build things yourself?
• Basic tools - Tools you'll need for many of these projects
• Safety - General safety measures
• Difficulty and practicality - Which projects can I do at myself?
• Common procedures
• House insulation - Installing insulation in your house or other building

[edit] Construction projects

[edit] Consumables

• Biofuels: ^[1]
  • Vegoil
  • Bioethanol
  • Biobutanol
  • Biodiesel
• Reusable menstrual pads
• Soap
• Shoe polish
• Wine

[edit] Weaponry

• Gauss gun
• Railgun
• Sword

[edit] Other construction projects

• Bodkin point
• Business card box
• Campfire
• Homemade hydroponics wick system
• Levitation and antigravity
  • Ionic wind thruster
• Pottery
• Wooden boat

[edit] Other do-it-yourself projects

[edit] Fixing things

• Fixing a dishwasher
• Unclogging drains

[edit] Polishing and improving

• Clean jewelry
• Faux marbling
• Field stripping m16
• Home staging
• Polishing silver

[edit] Other do-it-yourself projects

• Breed siamese fighting fish
• Canning
• Satellite dish How to install a satellite dish, including free-to-air digital satellite

[edit] See also

Wikipedia has related information at Do-It-Yourself

[edit] Guides in Wikibooks

• How To Assemble A Desktop PC (6 September 2005)
• Building an antenna

[edit] Guides in other wiki

See Wikibooks:How-tos_bookshelf#External_how-to_sites for a list of other wiki with how-to guides.

[edit] References

1. ↑ http://www.makebiofuels.co.uk/