HOW TO MAKE GROUNDING

HOW TO MAKE GROUNDINGMy story will consist of three parts.
1 part. Grounding system (General information, terms and definitions).
Part 2. Traditional methods of construction of grounding devices (description, calculation, installation).
Part 3. Modern methods of construction of grounding devices (description, calculation, installation).

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WITHOUT A BOTTLE WILL NOT DO

WITHOUT A BOTTLE WILL NOT DOAs you know, strawberry – plant capricious. Strawberry beds require frequent weeding, trimming the mustache, and when the berries begin to ripen, experienced growers pour on the ground sawdust to protect delicate berries from contact with the ground. Muscovite M. Listratova for several years, planted seedlings in cut-off top of plastic bottles filled with fertilized earthen mixture and partially recessed in the ground. To care for plants is not an example easier, and full of berries from this patch it is possible to collect much more than usual.

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LASER ASSISTANT

LASER ASSISTANTAs a longtime reader of Your magazine, a lot of interesting in this read. Finally, I decided to write myself: maybe useful to someone my experience of construction.
Its essence is as follows. As-needed in private households to build the shed, and quite a large size. It is clear that the basis of almost every built — the Foundation. And the problem was exactly with the removal of the corners of the Foundation and its entire top in one and the same “zero” level. This depends on the strength and durability, especially in brickwork.

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ECONOMICAL NIGHT LIGHT

ECONOMICAL NIGHT LIGHTIn recent years, developers of electronic equipment for ham radio became available to the newest element base of leading foreign and domestic manufacturers, allowing you to create new versions of familiar domestic devices, significantly increasing their performance.
The LEDs are almost all primary colors with a high light output allow to create elegant compact design home night light without using incandescent lamps. The intensity of the luminous flux generated by the described device, it is sufficient that, at least, not straining your eyes to read newspaper text at a distance of two to three meters from the source.

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A SIMPLE PERISCOPE

DOWNTIME PERISCOPEIn childhood, many have probably experienced the delight of the books of Jules Verne. The romance of traveling on the Nautilus is impossible to forget even after years. Today the submarine with the same for her periscope is of interest to those who in the future will be the captain. For making a simple periscope need not so much – two vanity mirrors (4) about the size of 50×70 mm and thin-walled durable material (e.g., wood or plastic) from which to make the walls of the optic tube (1), which are adjacent the top (2) and bottom (3) of the knee. Them at a 45° angle set of mirrors. In the process of manufacturing the device can be guided to one of the shows the structural schemes. The length of the spotting scope in the 300 – 400 mm can be considered sufficient. The periscope can be equipped with rotary device and handles that will allow you to feel like a real submariner.

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CONSOLE FOR LITTLE

Was “from a pot two inches”, but here grew the baby becomes independent, although the adult toilet yet still too big for him yet. I advise you to make from plywood and boards here’s a flip from the wall console and the step — child will be able to use the toilet. A. SMELYANSKY, Saint-Petersburg

ORGANIZER-IMPROMPTU

Impromptu organizer can be made of several end-of-life electrochemical cells with a nominal voltage of 4.5 volts (battery type “3336”). They must be extracted from paper nests, which are then to clean the inside and glue together (the more buildings, the set it would be more stable and roomier). Organizer is ready. Pencils it is Read more…

DRY AND “NEPROLIVAJKU”

DRY AND Once ceased to overlap the water in the cistern of the toilet. It turned out that the plastic float is stuck in the down position and through the unsealed hole for the end of the lever is filled with water.

To release the float and pour from it the bulk of the water work, of course, was not. But some water still remained, and to retrieve it failed — because the upper end with a hole for the float has a conical shape (like old inkwells-“neprolivaek”). Surfaced in memory the Council published once in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” to drill into the top edge of the float hole through it to drain the water and again to fix it in any way.

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THE CURB-CUTTER

CURB-CUTTERSuch a cutter is to produce, as he started pasting of walls by wall-paper during the repair of the apartment. The fact that now, along with beautiful Wallpapers offers a variety of framing and borders in the form of rolls of paper tapes coated with these ornaments. And often the width of these tapes does not correspond to your planned finish. Sause with scissors? It turns out long and not always smooth.

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