Rust is enemy number one of almost any metal. The “red plague” that with enviable persistence and constancy turns hundreds of thousands of tons of sparkling high-grade, high-strength, alloyed steel into heaps of brown powder. A disease for which there are no barriers… But there are remedies for it: galvanic coatings, varnishes and paints, bitumens Read more…
I read in the magazine «Modelist-Konstruktor» No. 12, 1992, A. Tatarnikov’s article «Obedient trailer». It suggested a solution to what at first glance seems a rather ordinary, but on closer look almost unsolvable problem: how to fit a motorcycle with a sidecar with a trailer that would follow it track-for-track? The idea of building a Read more…
Few car owners do not try to improve their consumer qualities. The most extensive field of activity for auto-rationalizers is the power plant. From time to time, publications appear about gaskets, attachments, or additives that increase engine life, optimize fuel consumption, reduce exhaust toxicity… Our Ukrainian reader proposes an aerodynamic attachment for the carburetor. He Read more…
To check the operation of the trailer’s lighting system, two people are needed: the driver turns on the switches and presses the brake pedal, while an assistant monitors whether the signals on the trailer light up correctly. I made a device that allows you to quickly check the operation of the trailer’s electrical equipment alone. Read more…
Sometimes a load lifted by a crane beam or winch (when replacing an engine in a car, for example) needs to be lowered slightly to the side from the suspension point. In this case, an auxiliary balance beam made from a suitable pipe or T-beam may come in handy. An eyelet for the crane hook Read more…
In winter, diesel fuel causes considerable trouble for farmers, as well as other owners of automotive and tractor equipment. At low temperatures, it becomes thick, and the paraffin contained in it crystallizes. This threatens rapid filter clogging and cessation of fuel supply from the tank. As a result, starting diesel engines and operating machines sometimes Read more…
My article on the so-called separate lubrication system for a two-stroke engine was published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 7, 1991. However, I still receive letters from readers interested in additional information about the equipment for it. As the mail analysis showed, practically everyone experiences difficulties when manufacturing parts of the metering device—turned fittings, needle, etc. I Read more…
The owner of a light moped (or, according to modern classification — a mo-vel, that is, a motorized bicycle), equipped with a D-8 engine, eventually notices that their two-wheeled machine doesn’t start easily enough, sometimes can’t pull uphill or poorly overcomes off-road conditions. And starting the engine with bicycle pedals, on the go, is not Read more…
To convert the motorcycle to a batteryless setup I purchased: an AC generator 43.3701 (from Minsk or Voskhod motorcycles), two thyristor ignition modules KET-1, a BKS-261.3764 unit, an inductive pickup, plus 12 V lamps and a horn. You can also make a 12 V generator from two G427 units taken off older motorcycles: use one Read more…
Such a roof rack will be of interest to car owners who do not have a garage and are forced to leave their steel “horse” outdoors overnight. Most of them equip their cars with an alarm system. However, it often goes off even from a passing truck or a powerful clap of thunder, disturbing the Read more…
