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…
When my grandson Grisha started growing up and stopped paying attention to his previously favorite rattle toys, the family began to notice that he started showing interest in various tools and even mechanisms. Then I decided to make him a small electric car-quad bike that could be ridden outside in good weather, and in bad 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…
The electric tiller is designed for processing soil in garden and vegetable plots, and for hilling potatoes. Given the particularly harsh operating conditions—long continuous operation (up to 4 hours), constant overload, dirt—preference was given to a heavier and oversized three-phase motor of industrial, enclosed design, over a commutator, direct current motor. The three-phase asynchronous motor Read more…
The advantage of a paint sprayer is well known: it provides quality coverage. Moreover, achieving smooth transitions from one color or tone to another can only be done by spraying. And for this, you need to have a compressor in your home workshop. It won’t sit idle after apartment renovations either, and will come in Read more…
«Dear editorial board! While reviewing back issues of ‘Modelist-Konstruktor’ from previous years, I became interested in materials about biogas published in issues No. 1’87, 5’88, 4’96 of the magazine. However, I didn’t dare to implement any of the proposed ideas on my farm. But I recently heard from neighbors that in Lithuania, some farmer got Read more…
Many have probably heard of an interesting winter sport — skijoring, in which skiers compete while being towed by a motorcycle. In northern countries, a similar sport is cultivated — towing a skier by a horse. The vehicle we want to introduce you to will allow you to fully experience the delights of high-speed skiing 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…
If a radio amateur’s inventory is burdened by a low-power portable radio station (or a set of two stations) designed for communication in the civilian range of 26.9 — 27.2 MHz, I propose a way to make good use of them. Often, a radio amateur is simultaneously a car owner and a dacha owner, who, Read more…
