“HELLO” — “MOSCOW”

I homebrew with years of experience, have built and snowmobiles, and ATVs. But my biggest passion is boats. Despite today’s gloomy everyday worries, I still find time to do what you love.
As you know, produced by the domestic industry before outboard engines (PLM) was far from perfect. Often craftsmen themselves had to bring them to mind: to reduce weight, increase power, make more economical, reliable and even aesthetically pleasing.

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CRAWLER

CRAWLER

This track snowmobile a little familiar to our readers. His picture was published in No. 3 of’99 our magazine under the category “Panorama photos of readers ‘letters”. Made it Valery Bogdanov from the village of Tabory, Sverdlovsk region — head coach of youth club of physical training, a gambler and enthusiastic. The work of his love for her, even refusing registration of disability. Besides an avid fisherman and hunter. Another passion is snowmobile machines, and hand made.

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WITHOUT DAMAGING THE CARRIAGE

WITHOUT DAMAGING THE CARRIAGE

The carriage road, and any other bike is perhaps the most loaded mechanism. Therefore, in the carriages with the outer conical bearings at moments of considerable congestion often destroyed bearing cages, often damaged, and ball tracks on the cones of the carriage shaft. Intensive wear of the tracks occurs when operating a Bicycle on unpaved roads because of the dust in the bottom bracket.

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GYRO — MOTOR

GYRO MOTOR

Among all the aircraft of interest to Amateur designers, the most affordable, nairne, gyroplanes. Usually, this simple and relatively cheap machine, because from a purely aviation materials in their manufacture are required, except that dural profiles, and a limited number. The design of such aircraft proposed to the readers of the magazine air force Colonel, retired Professor of a Moscow University p. MERKULOV.

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PLOWS, CARRIES AND EVEN SAWING

PLOW, CARRIES AND EVEN SAWSThe need to build a mini-tractor came to me simultaneously with the acquisition in the early 80-ies of the garden plots (receiving, as they said then). Those coveted six acres it was necessary to develop and sustain. I wanted to build a country house. Without mechanized assistant in this matter to do would be difficult. Industries such machines at that time almost was not allowed to get them even an acquaintance, it was almost impossible unless you’re a war veteran.

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SWIM ON COT…

SWIM ON THE COT...It is known that fish from a boat is better than from the shore — usually this fishing is much more successful. But the boat, at least the rubber there is not every adult lover of fishing. And where to get such a watercraft, for example, a young angler? Even the larger chamber of the wheel of the truck he to find easy. So inadvertently to pierce fish hook wonder. Meanwhile, the decision of the question to ensure yourself is reliable and cheap (if not free) craft lies under your feet. Using items that are discarded because they cannot be repaired or no longer needed, you can quickly build a good raft.

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BUILDING A CHOPPER

STROM CHOPPER

I am a regular reader and admirer of “Modeller-designer”, In turn, would like to offer the subscribers of the magazine the story of how I built a chopper.
 
Amateur “copperstone” gained strength of seven or eight years ago and still maintains its position. But if you had fans designed choppers are mainly based on a heavy “Ural” and “Dnepr”, the last time these original cars appear on the ground, even for light motorcycles.

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SAILBOAT UNDER… UMBRELLA

SAILING UNDER THE... UMBRELLA

I think that the idea of using the umbrella as a sail come to mind to anyone who has solved it in a strong wind. However, the first whose attempt to use the umbrella instead of sail was in due time recorded in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, was Georgy Arbuzov, one of the pioneers of Windsurfing in the country and Chairman of the section of Windsurfing at the FPS of the USSR.

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TRAILER CYCLISTS

Trailer cyclistsOn a conventional two-wheeled Bicycle much gear not to take, even if it is equipped with a trunk. Meanwhile, the need from owners of these machines frequently. It is therefore advisable to make to the bike trailer.On the construction of such a two-wheeled trailer said Zbigniew Hyun-nel and Andrew Fedoruk in the Polish magazine “Mlody TECHNIK”, article from which prepared this publication.

 

 

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THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

The snowmobile, which, the story goes, collected the tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamenka. This is not surprising. Equipment guy is fond of since childhood – for eight years, he has been in the CCC (children’s creativity Center) to the circle of “Small appliances”. In a compilation of drawings and design layout and transmission schemes of machine assisted group leader Viktor Aleksandrovich Kurbatov. Responsible welding works helped to run his father – Boris Andreevich. Everything else until the processing of parts on machine tools, has fulfilled himself. In total, Sergei built a snowmobile for about a year, the Assembly took almost four months, from autumn to spring. And until the snow melted, I managed it only to test, “Ispahan” everything drifts around the house. But now revealed some shortcomings, which for the next season is going to be eliminated.

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