The first homemade motorized helper appeared in our family almost 20 years ago. We built it according to V. Ilyichev’s design, published in one of the issues of the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine. And we were convinced how good it is to have a universal motoblock in the household, which won’t let you down in any task, Read more…
Bolts, nuts, washers, cotter pins, and other small items are necessary in any household. Or, say, jars and bottles with spices, seeds, chemical reagents… It’s good when all of this is not in “working disorder,” but at hand, in a homemade glass storage rack, the square cells of which are quite capacious and compact. The Read more…
We read in your magazine about how to store vegetables on the balcony and decided to take advantage of the editorial invitation to share our experience. We’re sending a description of a storage unit that’s simpler to build and operate, which has been serving us reliably for seven winters without any special maintenance or repairs. Read more…
The proposed mini-farm is designed for breeding and keeping rabbits of any breed in both private and public subsidiary farms. Its basis is a two-tier cage-module (if necessary, there can be several of them, united by a common roof). The farm’s design and maintenance regime are thought out so that it can be used even Read more…
The proposed plow originated, one might say, from a shovel. One spring day on my garden plot, I was making furrows for planting root crops. The soil had been previously plowed, but I had to work bent low, and therefore suffered quite a bit. In the yard at that time, my first-grader grandson Igor was Read more…
In recent years, foam catamarans have begun appearing on the water bodies of the Urals. They are unsinkable, convenient to operate, durable, and simple to manufacture. The figure shows the design of such a catamaran. Its dimensions: 3750X1600 mm, plate thickness from 40 to 150 mm, float height 200 mm and width 400 mm. The Read more…
This wheelbarrow was designed (if you can call it that—the process of thinking through the design and estimating dimensions) and built in a few hours after my brother and I received a message from our father in the village asking us to help him build an access road to the house. It was clear that Read more…
It’s hard to imagine urban and rural life without running water nowadays. Well, if there’s no centralized water supply and a well is nearby, the simplest solution is to use an electric pump to lift water. However, that’s only half the job. A home water supply system should include a storage tank, automatic pump control Read more…
When descending on alpine skis, as soon as the transverse or longitudinal load exceeds the set value, the binding automatically releases, freeing the foot from the ski. The detached ski often rushes down the slope, which threatens many troubles: having accelerated, it can injure another skier, and when hitting an obstacle (stone, tree) it can Read more…
“Potatoes are often called the second bread. But this bread is not easy to come by. Especially without using prohibitively expensive tillers and mini-tractors, relying only on a shovel and a hoe. About a year ago, “Modelist-Konstruktor” decided to help, publishing a good development about a tracer-potato planter made from water and gas pipes. But Read more…
