I’ve been familiar with the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine for more than a year now. Mainly as an avid reader and somewhat less as a DIY enthusiast, trying to implement in practice some of the promoted ideas and original technical solutions in the conditions of a simple home workshop. Now I’m offering one of my own developments. Read more…
In everyday life, the kitchen typically serves as both a kitchen and a dining room: breakfast and dinner are eaten here, children are fed here, because everything is at hand. But sitting down at the table with a large family or numerous guests is preferable in a spacious room. This means dishes need to be Read more…
Do you want to build a sailboat? Then you’ll probably be interested in a dinghy of simplified construction, designed for home manufacturing technology. Of course, while maintaining good hydrodynamic hull lines and, accordingly, good sailing qualities. A boat with waterproof fabric sheathing will seem very attractive to many. However, soft sheathing for a dinghy is Read more…
In “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine No. 4’2003, there was a good publication about interesting developments by members of the Tambov velomobile club: various models to suit any taste with comfortable soft seats, efficient muscle-powered drives, and stable three-wheeled chassis. Among these original homemade vehicles, one model stands out as fundamentally new in the velomobile world, since it, Read more…
Having a solid, high-performance grain crusher on a farm or personal homestead is not a whim, but rather a necessity. This is especially true when considering the high cost of ready-made “store-bought” feed mixes and the frequent mismatch between their quality and what is advertised. However, which specific design from the existing variety of crushers Read more…
The journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” has more than once published materials about homemade “refrigerators,” where natural cold is used for storing food, of which there is more than enough in the middle latitudes of our country, not to mention its north. In all these devices, when the frost is too severe, the optimal temperature is maintained by Read more…
«Hitch… a winch» — under this headline, material about my developed electric plowing system was published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 8, 1995. A far from minor role in it is assigned to the towed plow, the design of which is proposed to be made as lightweight as possible (to reduce fatigue when carrying it to the Read more…
Nowadays, you can buy any tool, any mechanism. However, all of this costs a considerable amount of money. For the maintenance needs of the technical school where I teach, a compressor was needed. But the price range for compressors of Chinese manufacture (far from the best quality) started at eight thousand rubles and increased depending Read more…
Water skiing appeared relatively recently in our country and immediately gained numerous enthusiasts. A skier racing across the water surface always draws a large crowd of spectators on the shore. Watching how effortlessly and gracefully they perform dizzying turns, everyone involuntarily feels the desire to be in their place, if only for a moment. But Read more…
Our dacha plots are small. And when every square meter counts, allocating space for garages and utility buildings is no easy task. Tent structures can be a quite acceptable solution. Especially when considering the time, and even more so—material costs. For assembling the frame of practically any of the three tent variants that have become Read more…
