“WATER BEETLES” IN THE SNOW

Chetyrehlistnyj snowmobile The first design P. A. Deryabkin snowmobile-amphibianPaul A. Deryabkin, snowmobile enthusiast equipment Ivanova from the city, have created more than one snowmobile. His first design, snowmobile-amphibian (photo). successfully tested six years ago. The trail was designed and built trehmernye snowmobile, which also showed good driving performance. But they had a weak side: the lack of stability on sharp turns and when driving on rough terrain. And now created a third option: chetyrehlistnyj snowmobile (figure), which, according to P. A. Deryabkin, was the best.

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CAR FROM THE SHAR’I

CAR FROM THE SHAR'ICAR FROM THE SHAR'IIsn’t that an elegant car? But this is a self-made design. Produced car craftsman from the town of Sharya, the Kostroma region, Vladimir boaster. “Plumbing specialties do not have any — he writes to edition. — Work as a skydiver-a fireman on the protection of forests. Build your car 4 years”.

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THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE?

“Small, but perfectly formed!” — called our article about microvesicle (“M-K”, 1974, No. 5). And the mail brings descriptions of all new designs, such as this one built by father and son Surovymi from Leningrad. The frame is welded from nodes a scooter; the front fork is reinforced with the same purpose, replaced the spokes Read more…

POLIHALE?

Otherwise, I think, and not be called a “spectrum” of Ryazan Hobbies of our reader Valery Helstein: model aircraft, radio, cynolebias, speed boat (master of sports, the third place on superiority of RSFSR), picture… Designed a copying machine for Amateur films, a motor for cord advanced “telephoto” to the camera “Krasnogorsk”, automatic slide projector. And Read more…

WOODEN SLED

Why not just get on the forest in the Arkhangelsk region wood! Prefer and lecturer in the school of the village Lamorna Oleg Dmitrievich Cheese. Teaching children the skills of working with wood, he became interested in the design of this fertile material. Active helpers his pupils 7— 8 classes. Improved carpenter’s bench, made by Read more…

SNOWMOBILE: IDEAS AND DESIGNS

SNOWMOBILE: IDEAS AND DESIGNSInterest in snowmobiles as individual means of transportation on winter roads and sporty type motor vehicles manifested itself long ago. But as widespread as it is now, the hobby of Amateur snowmobiles contributed, undoubtedly, increase the General technical level of young people. According to incomplete data, the number of snowmobiles built by enthusiasts since 1968, has almost doubled.

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ADDRESS — SITE

ADDRESS — SITEAt the construction sites of the Baikal-Amur mainline and KAMAZ, large and small Komsomol — everywhere can be used a variety of mechanical AIDS created by the innovators of the construction sites and shown recently at the Exhibition of achievements of national economy of the USSR.

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AGO SPINNING AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS

PLAYING BACK AT DIFFERENT SPEEDSAlmost two centuries have passed since the invention of the Bicycle. Since then, just who, where and how it didn’t “reinvent” and not improved. The result was a diverse array of pedal cars from a suitcase mini”bike” to multi-seat tandems, velomobiles to water and even air bikes, from utility to high-speed sports, from the simple to are equipped with computers.

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TRACTOR-“MOUNTAINEER”

Fig. 1. Tractor hillside T-50K.Slightly more than half a century ago, at the dawn of Soviet power, Lenin dreamed of the time when we can give agriculture 100 thousand tractors. The Soviet people under the leadership of the Communist party brought to life the dream of the great leader, fulfilled his Covenant. Today 100 thousand — millions of a powerful modern tractors working in the vast expanses of the country. Every year, collective and state farms received a new and more productive machines.

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