A thrifty owner, especially a rural resident, does not have too much household equipment. So I got another mini tractor. As usual – homemade (you can see about my previous work in “M-K” No. 1-2023 ). This time, in addition to functionality, increased attention was paid to aesthetics and ergonomics. I wanted to get not Read more…
Last summer, the head of the aviation club of the Vnukovo House of Culture (Moscow), amateur pilot Andrei Chernikov, demonstrated quite complex aerobatic maneuvers over the Razdolye airfield in the Vladimir region on a single-seat biplane he designed and built with his own hands. The aircraft does not yet have an airworthiness certificate due to Read more…
In rural life there are many labor-intensive jobs that nevertheless need to be done quickly, for example: in the spring – sowing, in the summer – haymaking, harvesting – in the fall and, finally, snow – in the winter. When performing them, if there are no numerous assistants, you cannot do without means of mechanization. Read more…
Automotive design is a long-time passion of Krasnoyarsk resident Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gassan. Readers interested in homemade cars will probably remember both “ Mini-Valga ” and “ Buggy-350 ”… And here is another, just completed work. But unlike the previous ones, where V. A. Gassan was both a developer and a builder of cars, here he Read more…
Several years ago, our family purchased a summer cottage that had not been cultivated for a long time. An attempt to dig it up by hand was unsuccessful and we were forced to hire people who plowed our site with a walk-behind tractor. They paid a decent amount for this. And then I thought that Read more…
A friend of mine started making the car we are talking about in the late 1980s, when automotive abundance was just around the corner, but we didn’t know about it yet. However, as soon as he made the frame with suspensions, his enthusiasm dried up; I had to continue building the car. Having assessed my Read more…
Building my own plane has been my dream since childhood. However, I was able to implement it not so long ago, although I paved the way to the sky in military aviation, and then on a hang-glider. Then he built an airplane. But the lack of experience and knowledge in this matter also produced a Read more…
The “Druzhok” microcar is a car… for kids. It was created in the experimental modeling and design laboratory of the Young Technicians Club of the Novosibirsk Academic Town. Despite its small size, it has everything like a real car: engine, gearbox, driveshaft, closed rear axle with differential and other components. The open body is very Read more…
“Hello, dear editors! I have been prescribing M-K since 1969. I made a number of homemade projects based on the magazine’s drawings. I am, as they say, one hundred percent happy with them. I am especially pleased with the Amurchonok microtractor, which has become my reliable assistant. He will plow the ground and do the weeding, Read more…
The boat, called “Quasi,” always caused a sensation on reservoirs. Initially, attention was drawn to its purely automotive appearance, emphasized by wheels painted on the sides. Upon closer acquaintance, the comfort in the cabin, good speed characteristics, maneuverability, and controllability were enchanting. And enthusiasts of handcrafting were more attracted to the technology of hull manufacturing, Read more…
