A small piece of steel cable, sheathed in a tubular plastic cover, enters a metal cylinder smaller than a hockey puck at its ends. This is a bicycle lock designed to prevent theft. It allows you to secure the bicycle to a post or something else, and in the absence of anything suitable—to lock the Read more…
A gardener, vegetable grower, or builder cannot easily do without such a vehicle as a wheelbarrow. When moving a wide variety of loads, it significantly lightens hard work—saves strength, time, and possibly health when transport volumes are substantial. Construction material markets and hardware stores sell wheelbarrows of various designs. But at prices incomparable to their Read more…
It’s useful to supplement the arsenal of metal-cutting machines in a home workshop with a pendulum saw. It can be mounted on a workbench, next to bench vises, in which the workpiece to be processed is clamped. The working tool of the saw is an abrasive disc. It can handle steel bars, angles, pipes, sheets Read more…
A mini-electro-calorifier (MEC) type heater is unlikely to surprise anyone these days. These compact and quite convenient household appliances can be purchased to suit any taste. However, it’s not at all necessary to spend money on industrial products, let alone imported ones. I, for example, have long been using a homemade MEC that, by unanimous Read more…
The times when caring for people’s health in our country was a state matter are long gone. The quality of free medical care now depends only on the doctor’s conscientiousness, while paid care depends on the amount you can “fork over,” and even that’s not always the case. Therefore, I advise taking care of your Read more…
Less and less often you’ll see nimble mopeds on our roads. And this is not surprising: the main manufacturers, by the will of fate, ended up abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So everything that is still sold from this range in specialized stores today are foreign-made models. Accordingly, the price… Moreover, fickle motorcycle fashion Read more…
When developing the project and building the sauna-bathhouse on the garden plot, I proceeded from the fact that it would require as little materials and time as possible. And this, it seems to me, was successful, mainly due to the reduction in the dimensions of the structure, achieved by replacing the large washing compartment with Read more…
The structure I’m going to talk about could be called a potato harvester, as it consists of several relatively independent units. The potato digger is designed primarily for coupling with the mini-tractor “Osorinets”, described in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12, 1996. But since it has an autonomous engine, it can work in tandem with any tractor regardless Read more…
A model housewife always has a supply of various spices in the kitchen, designed for preparing delicious, appetizing dishes — whether it’s first course, second course, baked goods, or dessert. And, of course, it’s good if you don’t have to search for all this in cabinets and shelves, but have it, as they say, always Read more…
In the mid-80s, television screens in many countries widely advertised small, fast, exceptionally maneuverable motorized vessels under the general name “water motorcycle”: “jet ski”, “waterbot”, “hydrocycle”. They immediately won the hearts of water sports enthusiasts, displacing windsurfers, water skiers, and representatives of some types of water-motor sports. However, reproducing a hydrocycle design at home is Read more…
