Let's have your hacks, tips and money saving ideas for beginners.

[Reynard]

But beware.

If you take something apart, pop the nuts/bolts/screws/bearings or whatnot into a yoghurt pot, and then pour in some white spirit to clean them up, and then wander off , when you come back the white spirit will have eaten through the bottom of the pot.

(At least I think it was white spirit and yoghurt pot. Some combination of solvent and food container anyway ...)

Happens with some solvents and latex gloves as well. Been there, done that...

Better to use an old metal lid screw-top jam jar if dealing with solvents or petrol etc.