BUILDING A CAR

BUILDING A CARNOT YET — HIS HANDS
 
To build a car from beginning to end with their hands — a tempting idea, but hardly feasible. The main aggregates should take ready, the serial and only in rare cases to make design changes in accordance with the layout of the car. The main attention should be paid to rational “folding” machines of prefabricated elements, the creation of separate parts and units of chassis and bodies, particularly the body, and in the design of the last is also desirable to use the finished part.

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UPDATED TABLE

UPDATABLE TABLEMany hobbyists and tinkerers have a tabletop lathe woodworking machine STD-120 and its modifications. There are machines and in school workshops. The presence of such equipment allows like young homebrew, and podnatorel handyman to create wood original, beautiful machined parts decorative and utilitarian purposes.

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MODERN OF THE OLD…

MODERN OLD...MODERN OLD...Machine, about which speech will go, was created as a commercial vehicle, which helps to survive in our difficult time. The car gave me and my son for almost a year. I would like to thank the inspector Gostekhnadzor R. L. Markin. He is also an avid homebrew and a lot of things made with their own hands. And helped us in word and deed.

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TRACKED WALK-BEHIND

CATERPILLAR WALK-BEHINDBuilt by A. Lomakin and tillers, and not absolutely usual — it with a crawler gear: a variant of its execution is best suited for soil in the garden or in the garden. For this purpose, the cultivator is pivotally odnoimennyi the plow. Depth or elevation of the plow is made by the arm movement up and down, the mount which in this case is attenuated and becomes articulated.

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MILITARY VARIANTS of the Il-12

MILITARY VARIANTS of the Il-12It is natural that interest to the transport plane, superior in its basic parameters of Li-2, has long mastered the air force showed the military. March 11, 1947 issued a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, OKB-240 was instructed to build on the basis of passenger Il-12 and transfer in July 1947, the state tests a troop transport plane with the specified characteristics (see table).

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WITHOUT BURSTS

Carrying water-filled bucket at a great distance, it is difficult to ensure that it is not spilled. The problem will remove a simple technique, often used by rural Housewives is sufficient to lower the surface of the water with any floating disc, for example, plywood.

THE BOLT CAP

Under certain operating conditions (e.g., vibration) threaded connections progressively’m quite unhinged by it. To avoid this, do not have to screw the lock nut: its role can play and a kind of cap, bitumen or melted plastic coated on the end of the bolt and nut.   V. GOLOVASHIN, Rybnoe, Ryazan region.