THE SNOWMOBILE RIDE YOURSELF!

When winter comes and the snow is “fluffy blanket” covers the ground in many areas, the only vehicle able to overcome it “fluffy blanket”, it becomes tracked all-terrain vehicle or, more commonly, a tractor with a sled-scraper. Of course, you can buy a Japanese ski-goose-nicou Yamaha (though it is worth more than another car) or buy now rare a cheap domestic “Buran”. However, always need such a powerful machine?

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SWIMMING WITH THE CAR

SWIMMING CAR

Good to live on the banks of the wide flowing river! However, this convenient transportation artery often becomes an annoying obstacle to communication between villages. Motorists sometimes have to travel to the city or village across the river for a few hours. Of course, you can take the boat or the boat, but then on the opposite shore will have to walk…

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INSTEAD OF THE JACK SCREW

INSTEAD OF THE JACK SCREW

Juice — Jack” was the name of the material published in the “Modeller-designer”, No. 4, 1998. I liked the simplicity and originality of the proposed technical solutions.
 
However, I prefer instead of the Jack to use with a special machine adequate for household performance. All costs for the manufacture of such a mechanical assistant pay off pretty quickly, and the quality of the juice does not raise any problems.

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TRICYCLE-AIR SUSPENSION

ELECTRIC-PNEUMATIC

A prototype of the proposed tricycle car was made by me on the basis of the motorcycle “IZH” chamber with two leading wheels and a steering ski. It seemed that the desired result is achieved: the machine ran well on the snowy road. True ski on Packed snow bad coped with its task. Spring revealed other shortcomings of this design. Riding on the roads in the thawed disabled even ski in stainless steel. Instead, I put the pneumatic chamber from 12.00—18,” but now more heavily affected by the lack of differential lock — a snowmobile was very difficult to manage.

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CRANE MOTORIST

CRANE MOTORIST

The owners of cars often have to be transported in the trunk of the massive thing. If no helper, then alone to ship them in the trunk or unload pretty hard.
 
Previously, I also had to strain with a tiller that weighs 55 kg. Now loading-you load, not a problem for me — I made myself for these purposes a special device. It is clear that it can be used not only for the cultivator.

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AND FUEL DOES NOT FREEZE

AND THE FUEL WILL NOT FREEZE

In winter, the farmers and other owners of automotive vehicles, a lot of trouble to deliver diesel fuel. At low temperatures it becomes thick, it contained paraffin kristallizuetsya. And this can result in rapid clogging of the filters and stopping the flow of fuel from the tank. As a result, the diesels and operation of machines sometimes become a nagging problem to be solved by trying a widely publicized use of expensive additives, sometimes find themselves, unfortunately, ineffective.

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THE FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRYThe Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.

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COUNTRY AND A PRETTY GOOD

COUNTRY. AND QUITE GOOD

The constructor of this truck — Eugene N. Evsikov already familiar to our readers for the publication of “Plows, carries and even sawing” (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 5 for 2002). In the article they talked about made them little tractor. Now we present another one of his car — mini truck.
Evgeniy N. — senior designer with 40 years of experience of the famous helicopter plant. Mil. Designed and built an electric truck is under be the rotary-wing machines — reliable and practical. In addition, it reviewed the simplicity and accuracy that ensured consistency and quality of execution of each node. The first time the photo of the mini-truck was published in the “Model designer” № 6, 2002, under the category “Panorama photos of readers ‘letters”.

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PRESSURIZATION — “MUSCOVITE”

CHARGE On the roads of Russia today quite a lot of cars of foreign production. To feel confident in dense traffic and domestic car, sometimes you have to reinvent the wheel. Indeed, the idea of supercharging the internal combustion engine to increase its power by increasing the air pressure at the inlet is not new. However, the use of aggregate charge one of the cheapest ways of achieving this goal.

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