The ultra-light international Moth class dinghy — the “Moth” (fig. 1, 2) is simple in design, easy to build, and possesses all the most important qualities of a racing boat — it is fast, maneuverable, and responsive to the helm. All this makes it worth recommending as a first racing sailboat for those who dream Read more…
On the roads and cross-country tracks of Latvia, new sports microcars — buggies built at the republic’s Central Station for Young Technicians — have recently appeared. One of them, the school “Buggy-350”, was displayed at NTTM-74. These nimble, agile machines move with equal success on dirt roads, highways, and heavily rugged terrain. They are also Read more…
The biggest drawback of a shell garage is its price: with delivery and assembly it can reach $1000. The cost of all materials is about $400. There is a direct (and not insignificant) benefit to building the garage with your own hands! A financial plan emerged immediately: buy materials gradually, depending on available funds, and Read more…
A familiar winter TV story is the rescue of ice-fishing enthusiasts from a drifting ice floe. Almost every year we are shown how emergency services specialists on helicopters, boats, or all-terrain vehicles save unlucky anglers. Such incidents are not uncommon on the country’s freezing bodies of water. Moreover, anglers often drive out onto the ice Read more…
Today we present pages from our popular section “Small Mechanization” by the club leader K. I. Kruglikov. He describes two original devices for watering garden and vegetable plants. Experienced gardeners water their garden and homestead beds only with warm, settled water. For this, they fill barrels placed around the plot in the morning and use Read more…
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…
