When making furniture at home, the main problem always arises for the amateur craftsman: how to join the individual parts, what fastening to choose so that it is simple but reliable. Everything is used: from simple nails and screws to mortise-and-tenon and complex glued joints, bolt fastenings, metal parts, and shaped profiles — depending on Read more…
Thousands of motorboats and launches built by amateurs to designs from the MK design bureau ply the waters of rivers, lakes, and even seas across our vast homeland. These include the widely popular Moskichka, Volzhanka, Strelka, Rusalka, Taifun, and Ruslan. An experienced specialist will recognize them at once by their characteristic profile and attitude on Read more…
Homemade table tennis tables in a yard are usually made stationary: crude ones, from boards or even from concrete slabs — such structures can be called a table only conditionally. And they are not protected from precipitation, constantly remaining in the open air. Imported folding tables have now appeared on sale; they “break” in the Read more…
One cannot help but admire the swift glide of a windsurfer catching the wind across the water, or the no less dizzying descent down a cresting ocean wave on another board resembling a wide ski. Both of these sports craft, under a fairly thin outer shell, have a fairly soft foam filling, so damaging such Read more…
It is hard for an outsider to understand anglers who sit all day, as if hypnotized, with a fishing rod, never taking their eyes off the float. Of course, patience eventually runs out even for the most devoted, especially if the fish does not often reward them with bites. That is why many experiment, trying Read more…
I have been a long-time reader of the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” and subscribed to it for many years in a row. Then, due to financial difficulties, I had to give it up. But since last year I have started subscribing again. I am glad that, as before, I find a lot of useful material in the Read more…
Today we present a universal electric trimmer for mowing grass on lawns and shaping shrubs. I once worked as a mechanic on garden and park machines, or simply gasoline lawn mowers. I often had to cut grass and shrubs in awkward places and on limited areas. Existing scythes and large hand shears were poorly suited Read more…
As living conditions improve, there arises a desire to decorate the interior aesthetically. And for this it is not necessary to buy expensive Western furniture sets — the problem can be solved with more modest decorative techniques that are no less effective even with ordinary furniture. For example, with the help of… a screen. It Read more…
Nowadays, many people use a bicycle as an indoor trainer in winter. The designs for the base vary widely. What they probably have in common is one thing: it gets rather boring to pedal in place. On a real road, the situation is constantly changing, which adds variety to the ride. But it is possible Read more…
For fifteen years I have subscribed to the magazine “Modelist-Constructor” and in every issue I find many interesting and useful articles for myself. I am a mechanical engineer by training, and I am especially interested in the creative developments of amateur designers. I myself, back in 1989, practically from scrap metal (units and assemblies of Read more…
