A folding bicycle is nothing surprising today. However, even when folded, its dimensions are not that small, and storing it at home — let alone carrying it on a bus or tram — is not always convenient. I set out to develop a convenient folding bicycle with the smallest possible folded dimensions. I wanted it Read more…
A rural resident with a large orchard and livestock will surely appreciate the slicer made by craftsman E. Kulikov from the village of Barnukovo in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. In years with a good apple harvest, it is used to process fruit into juice and wine, and in everyday life it makes preparing feed for domestic Read more…
I found the sprayers quite quickly at one collective farm and immediately set to work. First, here is a list of the materials and parts required to build the sprayer. These include a 200 L metal barrel; steel angle sections of 90×58 and 50×50 mm; round steel tubes (32 mm in diameter), as well as Read more…
The welding apparatus I built is a modernized version of a device that has proven itself well in practice; its description and sketches were published in the magazine Modelist-Konstruktor No. 3, 1966. The main point is that the new “welder” is significantly more powerful than its predecessor, and simpler to build and operate. Without any Read more…
I live in Siberia and have been fond of hunting and fishing for a long time. Our places are wonderful. There are many rivers and lakes rich in fish and game. I love hunting waterfowl most of all. But sometimes it is impossible to get it: impassable bogs, floodplains, quaking bogs, impenetrable reeds. I thought Read more…
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…
