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DIY TABLET STAND Nowadays, many people rely on tablets and smartphones to view recipes, project instructions, and other DIY tasks. The ability to prop them up while you work is an important need. Build your own tablet/phone stand, and make your projects more hands-on while your tablet use becomes more hands-free. It even has a spot to hold pens, so save even more workspace by ditching the pen holder.  Our Tip: To attach the legs and pen-holder brackets, keep wood glue on hand to ensure long-lasting hold. And if you want to make the stand's slots match the black pen holder and legs, discover an easy epoxy trick in the article below.  Working from a desk, it's easy to rely on computers, tablets, and smartphone. Sometimes, the issue arises--how do I make the experience more hands-free? Read more at Modern Woodworkers Association For more information about the Gorilla glue what is used please go to: 
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Searching for a Replacement Part? Just Take a Picture of It EVEN IF YOU’RE  not a machinist, you’ve probably had a crisis at home or with your car where you only needed one weird, tiny screw to fix the problem. You bring the part to a store and stand in line only to discover the part isn’t in stock. So they call it in, and the part that arrives maybe a week later is the wrong one. Then the whole process starts over again. It all sounds terribly inefficient! So of course, there’s a new startup to help move the parts-finding world into the 21st century with a visual search tool for finding replacement parts. It’s called  PartPic . Using its very own image-recognition software, PartPic works with suppliers to not only digitize their catalogs but make all the parts inside searchable to customers using smartphones. With this new system, instead of trying to find a match in a phonebook-thick parts catalog, you just take a couple of pictures of the part with your smartph...