WITH A SAIL IN HAND

WITH A SAIL IN HANDSKIING. You can go sailing on skis, not installing them on the mast (see “M-K”, 1982, № 12), but simply holding it in his hands behind him. This sail has a diamond shape, stretched on the d-pad and consists of a headsail and mainsail. Enough to their total area was 5 m2 and was maintained the approximate ratio of 1 : 3.

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WINDSURFING: the prize of “M-K” — “Orbit”

WINDSURFING: the prize of We can safely say: all-Union competitions “the prize of the Heroes of the Cosmos” today, the most popular competitions of fans of Windsurfing. Last year, no” was attended by about 170 athletes that were part of the 32 teams. Start hosted the Olympic “Windglider” and Board a free class. Won the master of sports of international class V. Overgrown” (Vodnik, the master of sports Yuri Kuznetsov (“Orbit”) and Janis SOPs (Republican Central yacht club, Riga); women — Y. Kazakov, I. Sklemina (both from the “Vodnik”) and the Leningrad M. Dubinko. Team championship the team of the Armed Forces.

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THE BED-INVISIBLE

BEDS OF DARKNESSThe proposed distribution network of the other transformable design for sleep have one common not wealth: they allow you to rest only in “Spartan” conditions. Meanwhile, this disadvantage can be overcome. The source data used in the development of the proposed homemade of options had the following characteristics bed: the minimum length of 1900 mm, width not less than 750 mm and height up to the surface of the mattress is not less than 300 mm. Such a retractable bed is relatively simple in manufacture and can perform certain functions both assembled and unassembled.

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HIMSELF A MAGICIAN

HIMSELF A MAGICIANChild joy. The spinning top is one of the favorite toys of kids. Some designs allow you to exhibit astonishing physical effects. The following illustrations show three of the top. The first of them is horizontal, it can be in two variants. Option And unwinds the palm of the hand, and the second (B) — thread (Fig.1); in both cases, the disk begins to rotate around the vertical axis. If the plane is to glue strips of colored paper, respectively, during rotation of the gyroscope can be observed, for example like colorful stripes “disappear” and the paper appears white, and black-and-white figures are converted into colored rings.

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COMFORT FOR THE BABY

COMFORT FOR THE BABYIt happens in every family: it accomplished the great mystery of nature, man is born, bringing much joy, happiness, excitement and hassle. And let it warm just a helpless lump, still there are family disputes, as it is called, but the apartment is already changes. Rendered in the other room the old sofa, moved the Cabinet for a newborn is released the coziest place to put a baby cot, the first subject of the whole “headset” needed for a new family member. It headset: the number of its components change with age of the child is dictated to and care about the convenience for the young mother. Here is the place for changing, and a separate locker or a barrel for clothes, a table under a lamp and bottles of baby food a low toilet, high chair, and later — to the table, a playpen with mesh or lattice-like walls for the first independent “walking”, and Walker — chair on wheels for the first faltering steps…

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CONCRETE DO YOURSELF

DO CONCRETE YOURSELFMixer need not everyone. But it will certainly be interested in one who wants to build anything on the plot or is already building. The design of the proposed mixer is simple and available for review. It applied quite common components and parts. However, you can collect from other scrap materials, and published a description here as an example.

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ANOTHER FOLDABLE

ANOTHER FOLDABLESuch desks there are a number of things. One of them is the ability easily, disassembled for parts, to move from place to place, for example to put in the garden, in the yard. Younger children (preschoolers or first-graders), it will seem a lot attractive when you provide it to transport a frame cart on wheels. The older she’ll get, obviously, the fact that during holidays, folded and put in the corner, against the wall, takes up minimal space.

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AND A SHOWER AND WARDROBE

AND A SHOWER, AND WARDROBEAlmost every cottager is trying to equip on the site the shower: it’s nice in the summer heat PLI after active physical labor to feel the soothing coolness of the water jets. But so-called gardener and a small box, where it would be possible for the night to clean shovels, rakes n the other gardening tools, fertilizers, sprays with herbicides, miscellaneous household stuff. The design proposed by the magazine “Homemaker” (England), allowing one construction to combine the shower and the pantry. This box, which has a door on one side leads to the shower, on the other hand, a small wardrobe; divided compartments a common dividing wall. Another tempting option: to make it if necessary, collapsible, of the panels reinforced at the edges by a frame of wooden bars and rods, then at the end of the season it is easy to remove or redevelopment of the site to move to a new location.

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