On a hot summer day, when the scorching air stands still in the absence of a breeze, neither an open transom nor even a wide-open window brings the desired coolness. It’s good when there’s a built-in window fan. Well, for those who don’t have one, I offer a way to quickly install a removable fan Read more…
A bedside table for bedding usually consists of a narrow box with a lid or a folding flap covering half of the front panel. The bedside table option proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Észermester” also looks almost no different externally. However, upon closer inspection, we’ll see that not only the upper half of the front Read more…
Whatever you say, the main and most accessible all-season propulsion system for homemade all-terrain vehicles remains the pneumatic tire — a wheel with low-pressure tires. But for many amateur designers, making wheels for pneumatic vehicles presents certain difficulties. It’s not easy to even decide on their design. Traditional wheels — two rims with beds between Read more…
The compact universal self-propelled machine MUSM-1 — that’s what the young craftsmen from the modeling and construction club of agricultural machines at Novokulinskaya Secondary School in Dagestan named their design. With the help of various attachments, it performs plowing, cultivation, sowing, harrowing; mows hay and collects dried grass into windrows and haystacks; transports various loads Read more…
In garden and dacha benches, the seats suffer most from atmospheric exposure: snow caps accumulate on their horizontal surface, which become soggy during thaws, and rain also has its destructive effect. Painting with oil paints certainly helps, but doesn’t save them. However, there is a way to make the seat as durable as the backrest. Read more…
If there is no separate children’s room in the apartment, organizing a workspace for a schoolchild is not so simple, and even more so if there are two students in the family. However, even here the design ingenuity of home craftsmen suggests a solution. Here is what solution to the problem is offered, for example, Read more…
Both during construction and during further operation or repair of an individual or country house, a special ladder is needed for work on the roof, preferably wooden, with an L-shaped end at the top so it can be hooked over the roof ridge. Often it remains there unused until the next time, due to the Read more…
It is designed for a relaxation corner on a country plot, by the wall of a house on the sunny or, conversely, shady side—wherever one prefers. This set includes a table and two benches, and what’s unusual about it is that all these items can be easily lifted and fixed to the wall as a Read more…
Despite the ever-growing variety of breadboxes offered by industry, they still rarely meet the main requirement—keeping bread fresh: inside them it either goes stale quickly or gets moldy. Wooden designs are far more reliable in this regard, and they are easy to make yourself. Here is one such breadbox, made from 12 mm plywood. It Read more…
Neither metal nor plastic bread storage boxes offered by industry can compare with wooden ones. The latter are more eco-friendly, more durable, more attractive, and they keep loaves and baguettes fresh much longer. And the wooden design proposed by the Polish magazine Młody Technik is even more versatile: it combines the functions of both a Read more…
