The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do, Volume 2

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Contents

1. Developing Tray Made of a Tin Can
2. White Rubber on Croquet Arches
3. Illuminating an Outside Thermometer
4. How to Make an Automobile Robe
5. Locating a Droplight in the Dark
6. Lighting a Room for Making Photographs
7. Detachable Hinged Cover for Kettles
8. A Use for Discarded Wafer Razor Blades
9. Armatures for Small Motors
10. Ice Creeper for Shoe Heels
11. Opening Screw-Top Fruit Jars
12. Lamp-Chimney Cleaner
13. A Pop-Corn Popper
14. A Homemade Floor Polisher
15. Simple Way to Mark Poison Bottles
16. Removing Varnish
17. Curling-Iron Heater
18. Preserving Flowers in Color and Form
19. Reading Pulse Beats with the Sun's Rays
20. Artistic Wood Turning
21. A Variable Condenser
22. Adjustable Baking-Pan Shoes
23. A Pushmobile Race
24. Pencil Rack
25. Reducing Size of a Hat Sweatband
26. A Catapult
27. Growing Clean Strawberries
28. A Magic Change Card
29. Cleaning Pearl Articles
30. Bed for a Camp
31. Sail for a Boy's Wagon
32. Extracting a Broken Screw
33. Keeping Out Dampness
34. A Double-Claw Hammer for Pulling Nails Straight
35. A Cyclemobile By Frank Pfefferle
36. How to Make a Humidor
37. Telephoto Attachment for a Hand Camera
38. A Turn Feeding Table for Birds
39. A Sack Holder
40. Time Indicator for Medicine Bottles
41. A Washtub Stand
42. Pipe Used as a Leather Punch
43. To Prevent Oilcloth from Cracking
44. How to Make a Flymobile By Edward Sieja
45. The Die-and-Box Trick
46. Homemade Pantograph
47. Trapping Mosquitoes
48. Pen Rack on an Ink Bottle
49. Substitute for a Broken Bench-Vise Nut
50. Scissors Sharpener
51. Floor Push Button
52. A Wrist Brace
53. Protecting a Kettle Handle from Heat
54. Tin Can Used for Watering Chickens
55. How to Make a Hurdle
56. Oil Burner for a Cook Stove
57. A Fish Stringer
58. Substitutes for Drawing Instruments
59. How to Make an Aspirator
60. A Key-Holder Hook
61. A Hand Hoe
62. Seed Receptacle for Bird-Cages
63. Kitchen-Utensil Scraper
64. Anchor Posts for a Lawn Swing
65. Automatic Filter
66. Grinding Scissors
67. To Repair a Leak in a Canoe
68. Holder for Loose Window Glass
69. A Homemade Bench Vise
70. A Cover Strainer
71. Homemade Corn Sheller
72. An Ornamental Metal Flatiron Holder
73. How to Make a Watch Demagnetizer
74. Remodeling a Talking Machine
75. Needle for Sewing Burlap
76. A Mysterious Revolving Wheel
77. How to Make a Rabbet Plane
78. Eye Shield for a Microscope
79. Transferring Magazine Pictures
80. A Homemade Egg Separator
81. A Glue-Spreader Holder
82. Stop on a Chair Rocker for a Baby
83. Homemade Countersink for Wood
84. To Maintain a Constant Level of Liquids in Vessels
85. Homemade Electric Bed Warmer
86. A Flash-Light Telegraph on a Kite Line
87. Hangers for Barn Tools
88. Guide Ropes on a Bobsled
89. Brush Hanger for a Dark Room
90. Lighting a Basement Light
91. Projecting Protractor Readings
92. Removing Grease from Paint
93. A Door Stop
94. Stretching a Curtain without a Frame
95. Welding Small Resistance-Wire Connections
96. Bench with Folding Seats
97. Rim of Wire Wastebasket Wrapped with Felt
98. A Homemade Roller Coaster By J. H. Sanford
99. Door-Bell Alarm
100. A Playground Ferris Wheel
101. A Merry-Go-Round Pole
102. A Theatrical Night Scene with the Appearance of Fireflies
103. Hulling Walnuts
104. Stick for Lowering Top Sash of a Window
105. An Adjustable Hacksaw Frame
106. A Bedroom Cabinet
107. A Dull Black for Cameras
108. A Door Fastener
109. Umbrella Used as a Flower Trellis
110. Combined Shade and Awning
111. Vaulting-Pole Attachments
112. Separating Drinking Glasses
113. A Magic String
114. Edging Flower Beds
115. An Electric Stirring Machine
116. A Clothes Rack
117. How to Make a Pair of Foot Boats
118. A Green-Corn Holder
119. Inflating Toy Balloons
120. Electric-Light Mystery
121. An Oar Holder
122. Cooking Food in Paper
123. Washing Photograph Prints
124. Combination Lock for a Drawer
125. How to Start Small Machine Screws
126. An Umbrella Holder for Display Purposes
127. Holder for a Milk Card
128. Frame for Printing Post Cards from Negatives
129. Finger Protection on Laboratory Vessels
130. Inlaying Metals by Electroplating
131. A Novel Show-Window Attraction
132. How to Make a Mop Wringer
133. A Vise Used as a Caliper Gauge
134. Homemade Tack Puller
135. How to Make a Radium Photograph
136. Fountain for an Ordinary Pen
137. Pulling Wire through Curved Electric Fixtures
138. An Automatically Closing Drawer
139. A Cork Puller
140. Uses for a Bamboo Pole
141. Making Common Lock Less Pickable
142. To Color Tan Leather Black
143. To Prevent Corks Sticking in Bottle Necks
144. To Remove Rust Stains from Clothing
145. Eraser Holder
146. Bleaching Ivory
147. A Soap Shake
148. Ear Repair on a Bucket
149. Cleaning Dirt from Tufts in Upholstering
150. Painting Lead Pipe
151. Attaching a Vise Jaw to a Bench
152. Removing Vegetable Stains
153. Picture-Frame Corner Joints
154. Hunting-Knife Handles
155. Holding Wood in a Sawbuck
156. A New Pail-Cover Handle
157. Drip-Pan Alarm
158. A Live-Bait Pail
159. A Mouse Trap
160. Quickly Made Rheostat
161. Sunlight Flasher for the Garden By Claude L. Woolley
162. An Automatic Blowpipe
163. Homemade Steam-Turbine Engine
164. Electric Switch for Exposing Photographic Printing Papers
165. How to Make a Wing Nut
166. Cork-Covered Clothes Peg
167. Shaping an Old Broom
168. How to Make a Bolster
169. A Fish-Scaling Knife
170. To Prevent Moles from Damaging Growing Seeds
171. How to Make a Heliograph By R. B. Huey
172. Twine Cutter for Use at a Wrapping Counter
173. Frosting Brass
174. A Cupboard-Door Spice-Box Shelf
175. Starting a Siphon
176. A Window-Seat Sewing Box
177. Cutting a Glass Bottle
178. To Clean Painted or Frescoed Walls
179. Securing Papers in a Mailing Tube
180. Cooling Tube for a Laboratory Still
181. A Comb Cleaner
182. Scraping Off Surplus Water on a Grindstone
183. A Paper Drinking Cup
184. Homemade Brush for Cleaning Upholstered Furniture
185. Removing Calcium Deposits on Glass
186. A Cold-Chisel Guide
187. Care of Paintbrushes
188. Filter in a Pump Spout
189. Brown Stain for Wood
190. An Egg Boiler
191. Removing Black Deposit an Bathtubs
192. A Stocking-Stretcher Form
193. Stick Holder for a Chopping Block
194. Cleaning Gold and Platinum
195. A Twine Spool
196. Reinforcing Chair Bottoms
197. A Novelty Chain
198. Closet Holders for Linen
199. Preserving Dry Batteries
200. A Cleaner for Brass
201. Homemade Graduate
202. Mending a Break in Felt
203. Imitating Ebony on Oak
204. Tongue Holder for a Boy's Wagon
205. Gluing Small Mitered Frames
206. Handle Attachment for a Sickle
207. A Clothesline for Small Goods
208. Automatically Controlled Ice-Box Lights
209. A Bottle-Cap Lifter
210. A Mechanical Bicycle Horn
211. Retarder for Plaster of Paris
212. An Inkwell Stopper
213. A Grass Rake
214. A Staple Puller
215. Repairing Rocker on a Chair
216. Electric-Lamp Reflector for a Target
217. Making Small Taps
218. Sink a Substitute for a Dishpan
219. How to Make Small Coil Springs
220. A Pruning-Saw Guard
221. Home-Made Motion-Picture Camera and Projector By Charles Frank
222. A Swimming Raft
223. Tightening a Tennis Net
224. Holding Fishing-Rod Joints Together
225. Roller Skate on a Bicycle Wheel
226. Rope Oarlocks
227. Home-Made Motion-Picture Camera and Projector In Three Parts—Part II
228. An Emergency Clamp
229. Home-Made Motion-Picture Camera and Projector In Three Parts—Part III
230. Homemade Graining Tools
231. Needle for Repairing Screens
232. An Emergency Tourniquet
233. Mechanical Aid to Singers
234. Model Boat with Aerial Propeller
235. Lantern-Slide Binding Machine
236. Adjustable Film-Developing Machine
237. Preventing Loss of Fish from Covered Baskets
238. Repair for a Broken Lock Keeper
239. Lantern for Spot and Colored Lights
240. Homemade Palette Knife
241. Self-Closing Gate
242. A Poultry Shade
243. A Muskrat Trap
244. A Casein Glue
245. The Mile-O-View Camera By T. B. Lambert
246. A Photographic Worktable for Small Quarters By K. V. Reed
247. Back Thrust Prevented on Skis
248. Crystallization Shown on a Screen
249. Furniture Polish for Fine Woods
250. Enlarging Photographs By A. E. Swoyer
251. Homemade Screen-Door Spring
252. A Surprise Water Bottle
253. A Graduate Holder
254. Homemade Enlarging Camera
255. An Easy Way to Make a Shelf
256. Multiplying Attachment for a Camera By J. C. Moore
257. Connecting a Pipe to Sheet Metal
258. An Acid Siphon
259. Bottle-Opening Trick
260. Setting Colors in Fabrics
261. Towel-Roller Brackets
262. A Developing-Tray Rocker
263. An Adjustable Bookholder
264. An Old-Oak Stain
265. Tablespoon End Used as Lemon Squeezer
266. A Back Stop for a Workbench
267. Croquet Mallets Protected by Metal Rings
268. Distance Marker for Printing Photographs
269. Mantel Picture Frames Made in Plaster
270. A Five-Pointed Star
271. Fastening Portière Pole in a Doorway
272. Trick with Knives and Glasses
273. A Scraper Handle
274. Photographic Tray-Rocking Stand
275. Kite-Line Traveler
276. A Mouse Trap
277. How to Make a Small Electric Furnace
278. Repairing a Broken Knife Handle
279. Picture-Frame and Triangle Clamp
280. Exterior Sliding Fly Screen
281. Bushing a Stovepipe in a Chimney Hole
282. A Screweye Driver
283. Copying Stand for Photographic Enlarging and Reducing
284. To Make Whitewash Stick to Surfaces Coated
285. A Mechanical Camera
286. Gauge Attachment for a Pocket Rule
287. Plate Hangers
288. An Electrically Operated Camera Shutter
289. Electroplating without a Tank
290. A Milk-Bottle Tray
291. A Springboard
292. Planing Rough-Grain Boards
293. Braces for Aeroplane Frames
294. A Puzzle Purse
295. An Emergency Sandpapering Machine
296. A Developing Machine
297. A Stove-Wood Carrier
298. A Pencil Sharpener
299. Cleaning an Oilstone
300. Landing for Small Boats
301. Bearings for Model Work

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