A sharp and properly sharpened tool has always been an indicator of its owner’s professionalism. However, the master’s ability to bring their production tools into working condition is no less important. But quality tool sharpening with a simple whetstone or electric grinder is not only time-consuming but also difficult. They are being replaced by more Read more…
A well still has no less significance today than before, especially given the popularity of dacha and cottage construction. No tap water, even passed through modern filters, can compare to well water. Given its usefulness, a well deserves that its visible part not only performs protective functions but also serves as decoration, as a decorative Read more…
To make this light and convenient cart — an indispensable helper for gardeners and farmers — you will only need what can be found in any dacha or farm. But it will serve on any auxiliary work: move delivered cargo to the right place, bring planting material, go for water with canisters. Thanks to bicycle Read more…
My article on the so-called separate lubrication system for a two-stroke engine was published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 7, 1991. However, I still receive letters from readers interested in additional information about the equipment for it. As the mail analysis showed, practically everyone experiences difficulties when manufacturing parts of the metering device—turned fittings, needle, etc. I Read more…
A bedside table for bedding usually consists of a narrow box with a lid or a folding flap covering half of the front panel. The bedside table option proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Észermester” also looks almost no different externally. However, upon closer inspection, we’ll see that not only the upper half of the front Read more…
It’s good to live on the bank of a wide, full-flowing river! True, this convenient transport artery often becomes an annoying obstacle to communication between settlements. A motorist sometimes has to travel several hours to reach the desired city or village on the other side of the river. You can, of course, use a boat Read more…
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…
