“PUCKLE” IS NUTS

Screws is heat treated (hardened, cemented, etc.) screws. Unlike the conventional which are mainly used in joinery for connecting wood elements, screws used for “non-critical” connections of various components (particularly cladding) with thin-walled steel base panels or brackets. The use of screws is expedient in cases when it is impossible to use bolt-on mounting hardware due to the fact that there is no access (or it is difficult) on the back side for nut installation. However, the screw-thread in the holes of the panels or brackets cut screws, often consists of one coil due to the small thickness of the underlying details. Therefore, the screws tight to wrap not (broken thread) and the connection is weak.

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FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR F-94 STARFIRE

FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR F-94 STARFIREAt the end of the Second world war the allies: USA, Britain, France and the Soviet Union tried to demonstrate their peaceful intentions. The United States, to acquire nuclear weapons, was calm for his country and selflessly indulged postwar liberated Europe. But it was only some two years and a friendly handshake between the leaders of the three superpowers – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin ended. At the same time stopped, and the US monopoly on nuclear weapons.

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TRACTOR-“WOLFY”

TRACTOR-The idea is to make a mini-tractor ripe at once: an allotment I have a small, but because I was without equipment. In General, it was more a desire to test their capabilities. In the garage by that time had accumulated suitable assemblies and mechanisms. So, the wheels gave me friends (they have many years of lying idle) and the engine gave a friend, because I helped him to restore an old “Moskvich”.

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“WASHEE-WASHEE” ON THE SIDEWALK

In Moscow in the yard of the house № 11 on the 2nd Schukinskaya travel can often see the most incredible car designs, which are operated by boys and girls. And the amazing thing is that all this micro-technology they themselves have built. And the center of gravity of the infantile population of the yard — children’s technology club ZHKO research Institute of inorganic materials. Interesting about the machines that are created here, we are told in No. 9 for 1974 and No. 6 in 1975.

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TRUCK WITH MANIPULATOR

THE TRUCK WITH MANIPULATORThis universal machine with a capacity of 2.5 t built Ustinovich V. S. Stern Rostov region the engine of the machine from the tractor T-40: diesel, 4-cylinder, air-cooled output of 50 HP Frame from the mobile pumping stations, bridges and rear wheels from GAZ-51, the front wheels from mnogolemeshny plow, transmission from GAZ-53. Dump body and a manipulator with a lifting capacity of 1,5 t — homemade.

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ON “SEA SLED” ON THE LAKE

There is a perception that sailing is a lot of people with high incomes. Of course, in relation to racing dinghies and cruising yachts, this is largely true. However, from a small homemade ahtoska you can get no less pleasure than the solid cabin of a sailboat, the more it will cost you significantly less.

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