In the cramped conditions of a city apartment, finding space for a bulky workbench is practically impossible. But mine, when folded, takes up very little room. What’s more, it is light enough to transport in summer to a garden plot and continue working outdoors. The workbench consists of two separate parts: a removable worktop board Read more…
Before you is not a corner of an ancient castle, but a hallway in the most ordinary city apartment. And the “castle” interior is the work of skillful hands, invention, and the fantasy of its owner. At the same time, the home craftsman did not have to hew stones, mix cement mortar, or buy bricks. Read more…
As soon as a child has learned to crawl, they are overcome by the desire to explore the surrounding space, where there are all sorts of curious things. And here parents are often helped by a well-known invention — a baby playpen. Its wooden lattice or rope netting limits the baby’s movement within this fenced Read more…
Some old friends once invited me to their dacha. A bike ride, a look around the garden plot. Then tea and a chat. I agreed and went one weekend. Summer, fields, a thunderstorm! Everything was planted, tended, and weeded. Inside the dacha house it was cozy and simple. But on the stove top there stood Read more…
The early nineties were marked by particular unpredictability — prices for everything rose not by the day, but by the hour. Of the buildings ordered for my country plot, the builders erected only the walls of a log bathhouse measuring 5×3 m without a roof, and then disappeared. There was nothing left but to finish Read more…
When preparing a rubber-powered aircraft model for launch, rubber breakage is not uncommon. As a rule, the secured strand, which has a lot of energy, then destroys the propeller and injures the modeler. Recently, many people have been using a protective disc made of plastic, metal, or plywood, which is installed between the rubber motor Read more…
After a long DIY construction project of my own — or rather a major renovation of a purchased country house — it turned out that we would have to move in not only to “bare walls,” but also practically with empty pockets. I think some readers of this magazine I respect so much may find Read more…
Folk wisdom insistently advises counting chickens in the autumn. Without hesitation, however, let us note: in a period of total shortage that has swept the country, one cannot fail to take care of the timely acquisition of the “source material” — those same live fluffy little balls that are supposed to turn into future broody Read more…
I offer hobbyists a homemade desktop drilling machine that uses a hand drill. A hollow tubular column is mounted on a sturdy base, and a rod is installed inside it so that it can move. On one side of the rod a toothed rack is cut for the vertical feed drive, and on the other Read more…
Which exhibition exhibit is the most interesting? Obviously, the one with the most visitors, the one most often aimed at by camera lenses. That exhibit at the 1984 Moscow City Exhibition of Youth Scientific and Technical Creativity was the “Vyatka-1M” walk-behind tractor, built in the auto-design club of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren named Read more…
