I offer home craftsmen (and not only them) a tool for welding plastics. However, it can also be used for a wide range of technical creativity tasks — for example, to blow solder off dismantled electronic boards. After all, the temperature of the air coming out of the nozzle tube will reach 300°C, and it Read more…
This machine can indeed be made from an old table, and it really is a whole workshop: our reader, engineer B. Popov, who built it, provided for interchangeable working tools — here you will find a circular saw (1), a grinding stone (4), a planer rotor (3), and even a lathe setup (2). Replacing hand Read more…
A diamond glass cutter cuts window glass perfectly, but using it correctly is not that simple. Unfortunately, the skill comes only after a dozen or two panes have been irreparably ruined, and even then a precise cut is far from always achieved. To prevent this, while cutting you must keep the tool constantly perpendicular to Read more…
“The saw grew white-hot from the work!” wrote V. Mayakovsky in his poem “Who to Be?” Meanwhile, heating of a cutting tool first of all means that it has gone dull. In this case a carpenter, as in the old days, takes a three-square file (a triangular file, in modern terminology) and sharpens the teeth Read more…
“Dear editorial office of Modelist-Konstruktor magazine! There is a rather difficult craft — the ability to use manual arc welding. It is needed not only by professionals in production, but also by those who like to make things with their own hands at home — both in the garage and at the dacha. However, few Read more…
Anyone who reads the description of the electrolyzer I developed will be convinced that a few liters of water are enough to obtain a high-temperature flame (200° C). The high flame temperature makes it possible to solder ferrous and non-ferrous metals with practically any refractory solders, or with the metal itself (welding). The high concentration Read more…
In the practice of auto and motorcycle enthusiasts, one often has to deal with the need for soldering or welding. Several years ago I quite accidentally saw a gasoline soldering iron made in the GDR that was used for these purposes — and that was when the idea arose to make a similar one, but Read more…
From my own experience I know that after publishing a homemade car in the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” (as with mine in the January 1971 issue), authors receive letters from many cities asking them to share their own experience. Now, during the crisis, when the opportunities of amateur builders are as limited as possible, I want to Read more…
I arrived at the design of this universal (as I believe) workbench — an essential work table for a home craftsman — after several years of technical creativity. I designed it based on my own needs. But I think that most other home handymen have roughly the same requirements for similar workshop equipment. The workbench Read more…
My first pendulum saw was made from drawings proposed by V. Zaitsev in the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12 for 1985. Indeed, for working with metal using a cutting wheel this tool is simply indispensable, but for working with wood the saw must also be given longitudinal motion. Therefore I had to make another version. The Read more…
