There are many different tools, devices, and pieces of equipment whose value is determined primarily by their practical purpose, while their appearance and technical aesthetics are of secondary importance. It seems that the garden sprayer belongs to this category — an apparatus used to spray chemicals in the fight against plant pests. If you have Read more…
From my own experience I know that after publishing a homemade car in the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” (as with mine in the January 1971 issue), authors receive letters from many cities asking them to share their own experience. Now, during the crisis, when the opportunities of amateur builders are as limited as possible, I want to Read more…
I arrived at the design of this universal (as I believe) workbench — an essential work table for a home craftsman — after several years of technical creativity. I designed it based on my own needs. But I think that most other home handymen have roughly the same requirements for similar workshop equipment. The workbench Read more…
Students use all kinds of “containers” for textbooks on their way to school — from fashionable backpacks and briefcases to canvas sacks and plastic bags. But while older students are allowed to do this without any restrictions, young children still have clear recommendations from pediatricians: only a rucksack! Because when worn on the back, it Read more…
Fruits are dried in different ways. Most often — by the air-solar method, which, besides obvious advantages (simplicity, availability, etc.), has well-known drawbacks. The proposed solar dryer design is free of many disadvantages inherent in other constructions. The “greenhouse effect” works in it, as they say, at full capacity, providing a temperature under the film Read more…
In a modern home interior, factory-made and homemade furniture items or other products can blend organically. Moreover, a few unconventional crafts can change the look of a typical apartment, give it individuality, create coziness, and even bring a sense of “warmth.” Moreover, these simple things can serve a utilitarian (practical) purpose, a decorative one, or Read more…
The finishing touch of any dacha fence is, as everyone knows, a wicket gate. Country homeowners often equip them with simple devices that automatically close the gate after someone passes through — steel springs, rubber tension cords, counterweight weights… However, all these “automatic” mechanisms have drawbacks, and the main one is that they all require Read more…
The author of the article and the creator of the all-terrain vehicle discussed here is Boris Nikolayevich Ryzhov — a long-time acquaintance of our magazine’s readers. Photographs of the machines he built (a tracked and a six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle) were published in the magazine as early as 1990 (No. 7). But the desire to create Read more…
Spring sunshine has barely had time to properly warm the ground that froze over winter; snow patches still linger in the forests — yet die-hard hikers are already setting out on their first trips. From storerooms and attic shelves come backpacks, tents, mats, and sleeping bags: the boldest hikers head out for the weekend, even Read more…
You know what’s most annoying about a burnt-out light bulb? It stops shining — and immediately goes in the trash, even though its shape is already perfect. Round, neat, almost like a mini vase, only empty for now. I once caught myself thinking: why throw away something that literally begs to become décor? That’s how Read more…
