IMPROVE UK-4

IMPROVING UK-4Machine UK-4 is still popular among hobbyists and tinkerers. Over the years of its release, home craftsmen invented many devices to improve its performance and broadening the range of operations. Many of these upgrades were reported in the “M-K”. However, nothing was said about using his motor at full capacity. But it is quite enough to handle larger workpieces than the number specified in the passport of the machine. And the need for such a feature: in this we have repeatedly seen at work in our model aircraft club. Here and was made a fixture that allowed to increase the depth of milling parts using standard cutters b to 17 mm with their width up to 260 mm instead of 60.

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CONCEIVED AND MADE SOFA

CONCEIVED AND MADE THE SOFAThe Assembly of such sofa beds only took three days, however the design was thought through in advance. Wish it was spacious for sleeping, and a day would take up less space. So I made it folding. Assembled width slightly less than a meter, and in the evening it increases the size of the back cushions (in my version up to 1,5 m). The main material is chipboard sheets, boards, rods and foam with upholstery fabric.

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THAT IS NOT RUSTED CAR

SO AS NOT RUSTED CARRust… the number one enemy of almost any metal. “Red plague”, with an enviable tenacity and persistence, transforming hundreds of thousands of tons of sparkling high grade, high strength, alloy steel in the piles of brown powder. Disease for which there are no barriers… But there are medicines and from her: electroplating, Lani and paint, bitumen and mastic — all they basically have to protect the metal. But the reality is not so simple.

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INVITED TO THE CASTLE…

INVITED TO THE CASTLE...When I opened this, the most usual door of the model apartment I was not in a normal hallway, and… However, in order. Inside the door was as if hammered together from thick oak, the dark time of the timbers, caught blued loops with zip ties. From the right of the entrance two narrow Windows streamed the light of day, Aza patterned glass lurks some kind of “medieval” landscape… In the wall between the Windows a mirror in a frame of beaten copper.

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ECONOMICAL WALL

ECONOMIC WALLEach individual Builder wants his house was not only beautiful it’s durable, but cheap. Design and materials of the walls is about a third of all costs. Is there the possibility of saving? I propose to make the wall monolithic, lightweight concrete-filled; the role of the formwork perform asbestos-cement sheets, they also then have to serve as a lining. The cost of these walls is lower than the brick, and the use of lightweight aggregates (sawdust, slag, reed) will improve their thermal insulation properties. In addition, they can be more subtle and light. In the end, will reduce transport and construction costs.

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GARDEN CART

GARDEN CARTIn No. 1 of 1982 of the journal in the article “Truck changes his profession” was told about one of the most simple designs of garden carts on Bicycle wheels, with enough capacity and good duct patency. If you already have a similar truck, without much difficulty, you can quickly turn it into a bike trailer. So, first take a section of pipe with a length of 80-100 mm, with a diameter of about 30 mm. at one end drill a hole that matches the thickness of the seat tube of your bike, and the other perpendicular to it make two holes for M8 bolts and saw out through the groove. There insert a rubber strip (as shown in figure 1), for example, old tires, size 50×150 mm, both sides of which must be the same opening as the coupling device and the drawbar of the cart. Now assemble the hitch and reinforce the seat tube.

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