SIMPLE AND RELIABLE

SIMPLE AND RELIABLENot often, but sometimes: spin rubber motor on the model, and suddenly it breaks. And it brings a lot of trouble. However, more recently, the fuselage of this “accident” is not suffering — its the working part on rezinomotornaya model aircraft are now in the form of a solid tube made of aluminum or fiberglass. But the propeller is still defenseless. Devices used to protect it from breakage, disks or rectangular plates of sheet aluminum not withstand strong impact. In addition, they are massive and awkward to use.

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TABLE SHELF

Book required at the moment for work, must be always at hand; however, the folded stack on the table, they interfere, and use them uncomfortable. Make a simple table shelf, and you’ll forget the inconvenience. Missing parts not required: two cutting boards or sheet of chipboard and three wooden rod with a diameter of about Read more…

PROBE-HARVESTER

TEST-COMBINEI work as an electrician. This profession is serious, requires not only deep knowledge in this field, but also special care with electricity trifled with. I have to work in different conditions—indoors, and outdoors in any weather. Here without nice and friendly equipment assistants can not do. So I try to keep up with the technology of today, follow the latest developments in the technical literature, including in popular science. Do not bypass the attention and homemade. I learned a lot of useful information from publications in the magazines “modelist-Konstruktor”, “Radio”, etc. One of my first homemade probe, the design of which was published in the “Modeller-designer” № 5 for the year 1990.

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PLANNERALM HAI-3

PLANNERALM HAI-3In the late 30-ies of work on tailless aircraft has reached such a level that the aircraft could proceed to the creation of transport aircraft wings. To new, unusual striving youth, and there is nothing surprising in the fact that students of the Kharkiv aviation Institute in 1935 for the first time in the world engaged in the design of a 12-seater passenger aircraft “slipped wing”. For the project used the idea of “planetaleto”, that is, low-speed aircraft with good aerodynamics.

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WEDGE-DRAWOVAL

WEDGE-DRAWOVALMany of the factors about which way to fall cut down a tree: and it is a natural inclination of the trunk, and the wind direction, and slope of the terrain. Sawyer has to insure the second worker with a long pole rests on the barrel, causing it to fall in the desired direction.

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TOUR OF “PICASSO”

TOUR OF THE Compact MPV Citroen C4 Picasso. Readers of “M-K” is not the first time meet in the pages of the journal about the famous French car company Citroen. The last time it was in No. 10, 2005, edition of told car enthusiasts about finding this company’s corporate identity, the Foundation of which was laid in 1948 in the design of the mini Citroen 2CV. The first successor “De shvo” (“Two horses”—named 2CV) was the Citroen C3 2002, followed by the car of a Golf class C4 (2005), and here is a new one-volume front-wheel-drive seven-seat compact MPV Citroen C4 Picasso, unveiled at the Paris motor show 2006. It has grown in size compared to its predecessor, but the characteristics of the corporate style equally blended in his look.

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“ETERNAL” BRUSH

In various treatment machines, cleaning the role of the washcloths make circular nylon brush. But making nylon circles and repairs them after wear synthetic bristles — a difficult and time-consuming. It is therefore understandable the interest that was involved in one of the sections ENEA brush original design, combining such important qualities as lignoboost and durability.

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