FOR NEW YEAR EVENING

NEW YEAR EVENINGAlmost three hundred years ago Peter the great issued a decree “On the celebration of the New year,” which was ordered “by the noble and carriageways streets at the gate and houses inflict some decoration of trees and branches of pine, spruce and juniper”. This custom caught on with us and became very popular. In the forest nurseries of the country annually produces more than ten million specially grown trees. Nurture each tree on the “new” plantations, accounting for at least 10 years.

TRAFFIC PINCUSHION

Although the industry produces a wide variety of beds, making the simplest variant, shown,will take just a few seconds — you just have to insert in the hole on a spool of thread the filter from a cigarette or a piece of foam. Important feature: needles are stored together with the thread.  

HEAT AS THE FIREPLACE

WARM AS THE FIREPLACENice in the dark frosty evening to sit by the radiant heat of the heater. But it becomes more comfortable when in it, like in a real fireplace, flickering “flame” and crackling “wood”. However, the industrial designs, simulation of burning firewood slowly, and all attempts to improve the installed impeller foil give only partial improvement results.

POWERED FLASHLIGHT

POWERED BY FLASHLIGHTDuring the experiments, building various electronic projects there is often a need for a DC source of relatively high capacity. For example, the battery voltage of 4.5 V is composed of three elements of “373.” To do this, you can put them in the original container tape out cut Velocimetry (see “M-K”, 1986, № 4), bonding like candy wrappers, wrapped in heavy paper (“M-K”, 1988, № 6), or dock in a unit with paper capsules-“shirts” from the same items (“M-K”, 1989, № 11). But still to provide a sufficiently reliable contact in such cases is not always possible. That is why many are still doing the old-fashioned way — connect the elements with each other lengths of wire with rations.

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RUN… FROM THE WALL OUTLET

RUN... FROM THE WALL OUTLETEvery driver knows how it is sometimes difficult to start the engine of a car on a winter morning after long Parking. However, a relatively simple device powered from an AC mains voltage of 220 V will greatly facilitate this task. The device consists of two parts (Fig. 1), one AC power supply (voltage 12 to 14 V); the second part is mounted in the engine compartment of the vehicle. They are connected to each other using a special connector.

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CAP-UNIVERSAL

BASE-UNIVERSALBurned out incandescent lamps, unfortunately, not to recover but to use their metal caps is possible. To separate them from glass bulbs, the bulb wrapped in a thick cloth and crushed. Then the caps carefully and thoroughly cleaned from the composition, which to them were glued to glass flasks. The Central contact with the insulator should remain intact.

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