HUMBLE BUT STRONG

HUMBLE BUT STRONGI love tinkering and doing this for a long time; in many ways helps your magazine. So I decided to share my humble experience. A few years ago, designed his own house table. I don’t even know how to call it — whether coffee, whether still any. The fact is that as a way it has not been used! And a TV stood on it, and radio, and had Breakfast on it, and dined, and played. He is still in excellent condition.

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THE DIVIDING HEAD

DIVIDING HEADThis head is easy to do if your workshop has a lathe and welding machine, Setting it to any milling machine that can handle the head bolts penetrate the splines and spline grooves, cut into the gear teeth and to perform other operations. All items shown in the picture. A few clarifications. The base of the head is made from two steel angled sections with a flange width of 120 mm, welded among themselves. to between cheeks kept the size of 70 mm.

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“CLEAVER” CABLE

Party NTTM, army innovator Y. Bandurko, suggested a simple device for cutting steel wire rope. Steel is the base plate to which are welded crosswise arranged vertical edge guides. Between them with the edge of the knife upwards to fit the bar, he lowered the rope, and the top plate is inserted into the mandrel. Then all of this fixture Assembly is installed under the press, the mandrel takes its stress on itself and presses on the rope, cutting it on the blade of the knife block.

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GAS — ELEKTRO AS

GAS — LIKE ELECTROIt would seem that not so long ago appeared in our kitchens “blue light” — the first of the Saratov gas. The enthusiasm that accompanied the displacement of them wood-burning stoves, kerosene stoves and kerosene stoves, over time, subsided. Gas was not an ideal fuel for stoves. The allocation during the combustion of harmful substances, the constant danger — and suddenly blow out the flames the wind and the room is filled with explosive mixture, — all this has led to the fact that gas stoves were gradually superseded by electric. The advantages of the latter compensate for even that heat the burner costs a bit more expensive.

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JEWELLERY WITH THEIR HANDS

JEWELRY WITH THEIR OWN HANDSDuring archaeological excavations of ancient burial mounds and graves along with different kinds of jewelry in many meet the beautiful decorations, made of copper. Try your hand in the manufacture of such jewellery available to everyone — you just use a copper wire and a simple improvised devices, prompted by the Hungarian magazine “Earmaster”.

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PIPE THE PIPE THROUGH THE PIPE

PIPE PIPE THROUGH A PIPEFor bending metal rods and pipes there are many ways and devices. Most often this operation is performed on the bending. But not everyone (even of the workman person) he has. The easiest method is when one end of the workpiece is securely fixed in a suitable place (e.g. in a vise), and holding the other bend If bend the end of the short, he put on a corresponding segment of the pipe, using it as a grip and lever. But this method does not provide either the quality or the accuracy of the bend radius.

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