Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late '80s. In their place are elaborate, but flimsy, plastic covers hiding stamped-steel impact beams with a wide swath of Styrofoam ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You're driving down the road, and you hear the snap of gravel clinking against your windshield. Then you hear a much louder snap, and your ...

Q. I have a cement slab for a front porch and it is badly cracked. I would like to replace it with a composite deck. The problem is that when it rains, the water will run through the joints to the ...

Plastic welding isn’t a new idea. But a recent video from [The Maker] shows an interesting twist. Given a broken piece of plastic, he secures it together with tape, machines out a channel around the ...

Q: Our only granddaughter inherited a table that was made in Mexico, I think from rocks and acrylic. It normally sits on legs with a piece of plywood cut into the same shape as the tabletop. But ...