Himself an electrician
FOR NEW YEAR EVENING
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.
THE “MAGIC” RELAY
HEAT AS THE FIREPLACE
SOLDERING IRON-ECONOMY
POWERED FLASHLIGHT
During 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.
RUN… FROM THE WALL OUTLET
Every 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.
CAP-UNIVERSAL
Burned 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.
WELDING OF… NOTHING
Design welding transformer I have, so experience in this are. I want to offer the readers of my last — as it seems the most successful — the development of a welding machine is not entirely conventional design.