Transformable supports for currants, gooseberries, and other shrubs can be easily made from steel wire with a diameter of 5—8 mm (“rod wire”) and available materials like poles. And with minimal effort and time. The supports will be segments of “rod wire” after their lower ends are sharpened and the upper ends are bent into Read more…
“Juice with a jack” — that’s what the article was called, published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 4 for 1998. I liked the simplicity and unconventionality of the technical solution proposed in it. However, I prefer to use a special unit of sufficient productivity for household use instead of a jack. All costs for making such a Read more…
When it comes to building a country house, it almost always implies that all “amenities” will be equipped in the yard. These include a shower (bathroom), toilet, bathhouse, and washbasin… This means that in any, even the most miserable weather, one will have to curse everything and make one’s way to such “amenities.” And only Read more…
They come in large and small, foldable and “monolithic”, tabletop and floor-standing – of the most varied designs, but… with one common drawback: they require storage space. We’re talking about ironing boards. Indeed, such a necessary item for every family’s household – and so archaic, “clumsy”: where to put it away when all the laundry Read more…
Little children love to have toys with them not only in the room, but also on walks. Especially those that can be pulled on a string or pushed with a thin stick. Even more so, a dynamic toy when something in it spins, swings, or bounces. We offer a variant of such an amusing pull-toy Read more…
In rural estate-type houses, and even in simple country cottages, of which there are countless numbers today, it’s unlikely to get by without some kind of stove — Russian, Dutch, or a simple “burzhuyka” — even if “we have gas in our apartment.” It’s just that “blue fuel” is still far from available everywhere and Read more…
Every year, while digging the soil with my family on the backyard plot where a tractor simply had no room to turn around, I thought: “I need a motoblock-cultivator.” Of course, I could, by denying myself something else, buy such a mechanism. But, thinking that it would be used only a few days a year, Read more…
In city apartments, country houses, and garden cottages, wooden window frames periodically require refurbishment and painting, and glass needs sealing or replacement if cracked or broken. All of this can be easily done on your own by following the suggested recommendations (based on materials from foreign publications). If the paint on a window has peeled Read more…
In everyday life, the kitchen typically serves as both a kitchen and a dining room: breakfast and dinner are eaten here, children are fed here, because everything is at hand. But sitting down at the table with a large family or numerous guests is preferable in a spacious room. This means dishes need to be Read more…
The journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” has more than once published materials about homemade “refrigerators,” where natural cold is used for storing food, of which there is more than enough in the middle latitudes of our country, not to mention its north. In all these devices, when the frost is too severe, the optimal temperature is maintained by Read more…
