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Contents: Home Maintenance And Improvement – Make Your Own Pass-Through (Do the project shown on the cover and you can easily serve guests without carrying everything back and forth to the kitchen); Coping With The Energy Crisis (Practical and useful ideas contributed by our readers on how to save electricity and fuel); Easy Furniture Repairs (By following these few simple techniques you will easily become proficient in fixing shaky tables and loose rungs on chairs and tables); Repair Your Car’s Ball Joints And Save Up To $100 (With a new low cost kit it’s possible to test joints for excess wear and do a simple repair job by injecting a special plastic); For Extra Space Try Bifold Closet Doors (Gain easy accessibility in a closet and save room space by installing bifold doors – the step-by-step procedure is shown here); Stop Those Floor Squeaks (There’s no need to tolerate annoying floor squeaks – just apply rubber-based panel adhesive to joists and underside of the floor – the work is easy, materials cheap); Is There A Plant In Your Life? (The editors invite readers to write about their emotional, spiritual effects plants have had on their lives. The best entries will be published in book form and winners will receive a complimentary copy of the book); How To Cut Your Own Flagstone Designs (By using a special tungsten carbide blade it’s amazingly easy to cut slate flagstones into any shape if you follow these instructions) Ask Handyman – Your Questions Answered – Here are time, money and effort saving ideas to help you all around the house. Some of those included this month are: Replacing An Old Roof; Chimney Cleaner; Fish Smoker; Edging For Table; Toilet Ballcock; Pattern For Lectern Feature Columns – New Products For Old Problems – Our regular column of pictures and paragraphs on a wide range of new and interesting items for the handyman. Some products featured inside: Multi-Purpose Tool; Double-Stick Adhesives; Lightweight Chain Saw; Resurfacing Compound; Metric Screwdrivers; Texture Paint Brush Editors’ Test – Evaluation reports by our editors who test new tools and products for the home and workshop. Featured this month are: Electric Screwdriver – For use on almost all types and sizes of screws; Tungsten Carbide Rod Saw – Cuts glass, plastic, brick, stainless steel, marble, etc. Answers To Most Asked Garden Questions – Here you’ll find questions and answers on house plants, vegetables, fruits, annuals and perennials. Some solutions this month include: Failing Terrarium; Cleome Reversion; Late Strawberries; Dividing Astilbe Tips You Should Know About – A wide range of ideas sent in by our readers that should prove useful to anyone tackling decorating, repair and building jobs, indoors and outdoors. Some of the tips covered this month include: Making A Straight Line; Windproof Metal Awnings; Plasterboard Elevator; Handy Tracing Box Departments – Booklets You Should Know About; What Its Called And Where To Buy It; Complete Home Maintenance Index
Issue: April 1974
Condition: Very Good