Dedicated to friends of my student years. I was lucky in my youth — I joined the flow of student hiking life. On the wave of rapid growth among teachers of mountain sports hiking at our Kurgan machine-building institute, among students there also formed groups for the more accessible pedestrian “lowland” tourism. Inside these new Read more…
These days hobbyists are spoiled for choice: there is all manner of tools — it is hard to decide! Hand-powered and electric alike… I bought myself a handheld wood router (model IE-5003). Overall it is a decent machine: a wide range of operations, easy to handle, acceptable specs, spindle speeds up to 30,000 rpm, power Read more…
How a snowmobile (motornart) differs from a motorcycle is clear to anyone familiar with these vehicles: mainly, the former is tracked and intended for travel on snow, while the latter is wheeled and for ground travel. In terms of comfort they are alike — both are open, although motorcycles are used mostly in warm weather Read more…
The proposed homemade compressor is intended for household use. With its help, you can quickly and efficiently carry out painting work or inflate a car tire. The compressor consists of an electric motor and a pump attachment driven by it. The attachment is mounted on a fastening plate and installed on three studs. The pump Read more…
Open flat wall shelves are a very convenient and versatile type of furniture: besides, for example, books, they can beautifully hold houseplants, vases, and decorative interior items. For this case, I would like to suggest a simple solution to the problem of mounting such shelves. These are support brackets, each consisting of two main parts: Read more…
A built-in wardrobe is good already because it takes at least half as much material to make as a conventional carcass unit, yet it holds far more, since it is usually made full height from floor to ceiling. A sliding-door wardrobe has doors that overlap and do not need the extra, often considerable, clearance required, Read more…
The bottom bracket of a road bicycle — and indeed of any other bicycle — is probably its most heavily loaded mechanism. Therefore, in bottom brackets with external tapered bearings, bearing cages often fail under heavy overloads, and the ball races on the cones of the bottom bracket spindle are frequently damaged as well. Intensive Read more…
Research by scientists and beekeepers’ experience show that with adequate quality feed and careful management, flying honey producers tolerate wintering well even in severe frost. For a weakened bee colony in cold weather, the trouble is less the low temperature than high humidity, when frames and the inner surfaces of hives grow mold, and the Read more…
For most days of the summer vacation, people enjoy carefree family rest, often spent at a country house, on a homestead plot, or in a garden. It is during this time that everyone tries to make up for the fresh air and sunshine they did not get enough of during the year, enjoying them to Read more…
A Russian folk tale, “The Fox, the Hare, and the Cock,” tells us: “The fox built herself an icy hut—from snow and ice, and the hare a bast hut—from tough twigs and little boards…” Still, truthful as fairy tales may be, a hare could not raise an entire hut from such material, because linden bast Read more…
