It’s hard to imagine urban and rural life without running water nowadays. Well, if there’s no centralized water supply and a well is nearby, the simplest solution is to use an electric pump to lift water. However, that’s only half the job. A home water supply system should include a storage tank, automatic pump control Read more…
Every DIY enthusiast regularly faces cutting sheet metal and non-metallic materials. Using hand shears is inefficient (especially for large sheets): with high labor costs, the cutting quality leaves much to be desired. At one time, I used factory-made lever shears for metal. However, unfortunately, they had a not very reliable design, and when trying to Read more…
To obtain hot water in a bathhouse, a tank-register on the stove pipe (or a boiler in the stove itself) and an external tank in the washroom are often used. Water circulation between them is carried out by natural convection due to the difference in specific weight of hot and cold liquid at temperature differences. Read more…
Many city dwellers would like to take a steam bath in their own sauna, but in most cases they don’t have such an opportunity. Even owners of dacha and garden plots don’t always have the conditions to build a full-fledged bathhouse: one lacks space, another lacks funds, a third lacks both. I considered myself one Read more…
Georgy Sergeevich Khokhlachev is a military pensioner, 77 years old. Throughout his conscious life, he has been enthusiastically engaged in technical creativity: rationalization work, radio engineering, photography, and much more. In his searches, the tireless amateur regularly turns to publications in popular science publications, including the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor”. G. S. Khokhlachev decided to present one Read more…
Illness is equally burdensome for both children and adults – the recent pandemic is a clear example of this. In such a situation, a small and convenient bedside table will certainly come in handy, which can be used for eating or light activities: reading, drawing, performing urgent work on a laptop or tablet, browsing news Read more…
Many photography enthusiasts today use old lenses on modern cameras. Especially those who are into leisurely creative or experimental photography. For this purpose, an adapter ring is purchased with a bayonet mount matching the camera being used and a thread (or also a bayonet) matching the lens. Such accessories are produced by many companies and Read more…
Modern rocking chairs – something’s wrong with them! Made in a lightweight version, they practically lack moment of inertia. The proposed design does not have this drawback. It is assembled from sufficiently massive wooden parts, which contributes to an increased number of swings from a single push. At the same time, the chair does not Read more…
Having started setting up the household on a neglected dacha plot, I installed a cabinet with a sink in the kitchen. I hung a washbasin and placed a bucket underneath for drainage. This works for rural areas, but at least twice a day I had to take out the filled bucket and find a place Read more…
Usually, a bicycle is used for five to six months a year, and the rest of the time it sits idle waiting for the new season. But if you equip it with simple devices and supports, you’ll get an excellent exercise machine. Instead of handlebars, the bicycle-exercise machine has a bottom bracket unit installed (without Read more…
