Remember as a child playing with blocks. He puts down one, two, three, top zagromozhdaet yet — and it turns out a car, home or tower. Cubes rebellious, impatient child — the structure breaks down. A shame, crying — you have to start all over. In a few months the game is boring, and some cubes will get lost” Purchase three or four dozen bulbs for flashlight, please take a few evenings and you will be able to make the child a game which is performing the functions of the cubes, significantly than entertaining and will be useful to him.
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About the miracles did not suspect in a small garden cooperative near Bryansk. We gardeners in mind one thing: get the water from wells. In the heat of all able-bodied people are chained down to heavy handles cast iron pumps. Need to download bucket after bucket to water the thirsty seedlings.
Somehow caught us a description of the six-wheeled Rover “Giger”. The main nodes it was very simple. Absent transmission, driveshaft, rear axle — these, in General, quite complex and heavy assemblies. Small engines — separately for the left and right sides through a V-belt CVT transmit torque with its series of wheels connected by a chain. The supports of the axes of pneumococcal rigidly attached to the body and turns was carried out by adding the engine speed on one side and reduce the speed of the other.
This car was designed (if one can call the process of thinking about design and estimates of size) and made for several hours after my brother and I received a message from his father from the village with a request to help him make his entrance to the house. It was clear that a stretcher we cannot do the work expected is significant, and any mechanized commercial vehicles was not expected.
Many people, especially those who live in rural areas, had to build, and those who had, perhaps still have, because man by nature loves to build is not only a necessity but a pleasure from the creative process. Here if it would be possible to mechanize here is a time-consuming work…
The car, which will be discussed, began to make acquaintance of mine in the late 1980s, when the automotive abundance was not far off, but we did not yet know. However, as soon as he made the frame with pendants, the enthusiasm waned; I had to continue the construction of the car to me. Having estimated the possibilities, I decided to take this job, especially because experiences in such a case I had earlier today I have restored practically from scrap “Moskvich-401”.
The idea of transporting tanks by road transport arose during the First world war. It was the desire to make a real operational maneuvering tank units — that is, to make a quick transfer tanks from one front to another. To accomplish this movement on their own was excluded — was too low, the dynamic characteristics of combat vehicles in those years. But a suitable vehicle was not there.