AQUARIUM-PAINTING

AQUARIUM PICTUREDecorates the interior of any room wall aquarium, made in the form of pictures. In structure it resembles an aquarium-screen, but with a sloping front wall. Due to this, if the suspension on the wall and the corresponding registration is obtained “live” carotene. Another advantage: no need any stand, table or Cabinet, not zagromozhdaet the window sill. The it and fishes it is no secret that “screens” the water is poorly oxygenated, and in the film bordering the air the surface will be the same amount twice.

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SENSIBLE THINGS FOR A SAILBOAT

SENSIBLE THINGS FOR SAILBOATYou built a sailing ship — yacht, Dinghy, catamaran, or simply equipped with a kayak sail. There is no doubt that the main attention was paid to the fabrication of the hull, mast and sails. On a small, inconspicuous at first glance the parts of a sailboat, remember, in the best case, upon completion of its construction or even after the boat in the water and the first trial of sailing. But these details nonetheless are an inseparable part of the vessel.

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HERE’S A SPATULA

We are all accustomed to the fact that the spatulas (tools for applying putty) are smooth metal, plywood or rubber plate. Of course, if you want luted to a flat surface, they can not do without. But in many cases, a flat surface (in particular this applies to the walls) but does decorate the interior. Read more…

HAMMER-THE MAGICIAN

HAMMER-THE MAGICIANIn my experience that after the publication in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” home-made car (like mine in the January number for 1971) are the authors of many cities requesting them to share their own experiences. Now, during the crisis, when the possibility of homebrew is limited, I want to help interested readers advice: how, in practice, to restore or to produce the car body with the method of knockout.

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ERASER INSTEAD OF SODA

ERASER INSTEAD OF SODAThe different orders had to perform for the last time a Cup “Junior technician”, school № 81 of the city of Gorky. This one was especially unusual and interesting. Heads of school rooms of manual labor, drawing, and painting turned to our designers to develop machines for selling pencils and erasers.

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“MIXER” FOR CONCRETE

In two nights I made a simple, but powerful concrete mixer, which greatly facilitates and accelerates operation in suburban buildings. I was building a garage from concrete blocks with dimensions of 400x200x200 mm, which formed itself with the aid of formwork and the concrete mixer. It is made of old barrels liters to 50-60. To assemble this, anyone can do it, using what is at hand. So I give only a schematic diagram and a description of the main parts of the device, and interested themselves transformerait them based on their capacities and materials.

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TREATMENT BATTERY TRANSCEIVER

TREATMENT BATTERY OF THE TRANSCEIVERStation IC-V8 has stopped working – not charging Nickel-cadmium (Ni-CD) battery. After dismantling his case it turned out that two elements of the line is faulty: you do not have internal resistance (measured with a tester UNI-T IT-21). This is the price for the carelessness of the owner maintenance Ni-CD rechargeable batteries (or rather lack of it), which is recommended in each instructions. Similar situation with routine maintenance is widespread. Given the large number of devices on the Ni-CD batteries each person, for their constant readiness every day lot of time would have had to spend on such services, periodic charging. “And to live when?” asked be, in this case Goncharov Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. In the article, the author shares a simple reanimation of Ni-CD batteries by replacing faulty elements in the line. Tips you can use for other Ni-CD batteries.

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AND LIGHT AND “WARM”

AND SHINES, AND In a modern home interior can organically blend factory-made and homemade items of furniture or other products. In addition, several custom craft is able to change the appearance of the model apartment, to give it individuality, to create coziness and even to bring “warmth”. And these simple things can be both utilitarian (practical) and decorative purposes, or to combine both qualities at the same time.

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SEWING MACHINE IN NEW ROLE

SEWING MACHINE IN A NEW ROLEFirst of all we should warn all those who want to do the same spinning wheel that required minor changes in the sewing machine does not affect its appearance and, importantly, does not damage its main purpose is to sewing. The principle of spinning on a homemade electric machines, braking of the bobbins relative to the flyers — and here, of course, remained. Therefore, preserved the basic details: bobbin, rotating the spacecraft Central axis; a device that acts it; the bracket with the guide hole; flyer with hooks — though all in a somewhat modified form. The rotation device receives the ha score of the flywheel of the machine — in this lies the main “trick” of the design.

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OUTFIT FOR LIGHT

DRESS FOR THE WORLDPerhaps the desire to dress up the light source comes from the primitive worship of the miracle of fire. Even the torch could just be stuck in a split stick, and you can revive the thread and patterns of vertical Board designed for this, and a primitive lamp not only gave light, but decorated home. Today, perhaps no one kind of industrial products for everyday life has such a diversity, such as lamps: chandeliers, table lamps, floor lamps and wall sconces, lamp shades, lampshades, diffusers of all kinds, lamps, different from each other at a common decision, form, material, colour. But to satisfy our demand is impossible — so the effect here individual taste or particular living conditions: purpose, place, environment furniture, existing light sources.

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