Back in pre-reform and even pre-perestroika times, on my birthday, one of my milestone dates, the management of the enterprise where I worked and my colleagues, knowing about my passionate hobby of small vessels (boats, motorboats, hydrofoils), gave me an outboard motor “Vikhr-30R”. I didn’t even dream of such a thing then: it cost a Read more…
At the X All-Union Week of Science, Technology and Production for Children and Youth, held in January 1983 in the capital of Uzbekistan, many interesting developments from many cities of the Soviet Union were gathered. Including from Tashkent itself. Specialists, participants and guests of the week remembered the samples of transport equipment presented by the Read more…
Georgy Sergeevich Khokhlachev is a military pensioner, 77 years old. Throughout his conscious life, he has been enthusiastically engaged in technical creativity: rationalization work, radio engineering, photography, and much more. In his searches, the tireless amateur regularly turns to publications in popular science publications, including the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor”. G. S. Khokhlachev decided to present one Read more…
There was a time when artistic design pursued purely decorative goals. Artists worked only on the form of machines. This explains the presence of a large number of decorative elements in the designs of automobiles of the not-so-distant past. Now the tasks of artistic design have expanded significantly. A modern designer (artist-constructor), trying to make Read more…
Snowmobile technology is finding increasingly wider application today. Industry and amateur craftsmen create the most diverse machine designs, specifically intended for winter operation. But then spring comes, and the powerful “Buran” goes to the garage for storage — waiting for the next season, while its owner switches to another “steed,” most often — a motorcycle. Read more…
The metal detector I developed has not yet been used in peacekeeping operations to detect and neutralize minefields, nor in large-scale geological or archaeological surveys. Designed not for professionals, but for amateurs whose desire to “look underground” can be satisfied by a design with the parameters given in the table, it is an improved version Read more…
Readers of the magazine who became acquainted in issue No. 4’2006 with the tractor trailer by V. Kolyaskin were also interested in the mini-tractor itself by this amateur constructor. Today we publish a description of the manufacturing technology of this tractor and diagrams of its main units. If you have a house in the country, Read more…
In any, even equipped with mini-“Kirovtsy”, “Kubots” and other high-class equipment, individual farm, one probably cannot do without manual agricultural tools. Having passed through the centuries, they, in essence, have changed little. And no matter how technical thought struggled, no matter how design pleased, we still have before us a “carrying container with handles and Read more…
Illness is equally burdensome for both children and adults – the recent pandemic is a clear example of this. In such a situation, a small and convenient bedside table will certainly come in handy, which can be used for eating or light activities: reading, drawing, performing urgent work on a laptop or tablet, browsing news Read more…
In the late 1980s, the family of light vehicles with mechanical engines (from motorcycles and snowmobiles to ultralight aircraft) was joined by a new type of ultralight aircraft, which received the official (according to FAI classification) name of powered paraglider. However, in colloquial speech it is often called a paramotor (PM), meaning the entire apparatus. Read more…
