The most common version of a tool box for both professionals and hobbyists is usually just a wooden box with a carrying handle. Accordingly, its contents typically lie, as they say, in a heap: tools, fasteners, devices — all mixed together. Attempts to make compartments or insert additional boxes don’t help: it’s still inconvenient to Read more…
This tracked snowmobile is somewhat familiar to our readers. Its photograph was published in No. 3’99 of our magazine under the heading “Photo Panorama from Readers’ Letters.” It was made by Valery Aleksandrovich Bogdanovsky from the village of Tabory, Sverdlovsk Region — a senior coach of a children’s and youth physical training club, an enthusiastic Read more…
Very often spring in Siberia turns out to be prolonged and cold. That’s why most gardeners are in no hurry to plant seedlings of the most common vegetable crops—cucumbers and tomatoes—in open ground even at the end of May, because, according to long-term observations, frosts can return as late as June 10. However, you can’t Read more…
Everyone knows the wonderful properties of a steam bath. It helps healthy people maintain vitality, harden themselves, avoid illness, and excellently restore the body after nervous and physical stress. During the bath procedure, a person, along with sweat, is freed from toxins and salts, which is why doctors recommend sweating daily—from physical exertion or from Read more…
Viktor Dmitrievich Berezhnoy is a native of Valday. By his main profession, he is a highly qualified welder. However, in the district center it’s difficult to find well-paid work. He had to be both a tailor and a reaper. The only constant was Berezhnoy’s passion for technical creativity. It was this that helped him out Read more…
It’s not often that you’ll encounter homemade snowmobile equipment for children on winter paths and hills. Mostly, these are well-known industrial designs like “Chuk and Gek”. Some have low-power internal combustion engines installed. Despite all their obvious advantages, they also have disadvantages. However, avoiding discussions about the “pros” and “cons”, let’s get acquainted with an Read more…
While equipping my bathroom as a sauna (see “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 10, 1997), I decided to make a powerful (3 — 3.5 kW) and reliable heater myself. The most acceptable option seemed to me to be an electric heater in a tin bucket with an asbestos-cement terminal block and brass studs, covered with a hinged metal Read more…
The designer of this small truck — Yevgeny Nikitovich Yevsikov is already known to our readers from the publication «Plows, carries and even saws» (see «Modelist-Konstruktor» No. 5, 2002). The article was about a small tractor he built. Now we present another of his machines — a mini-truck. Yevgeny Nikitovich is a leading designer with Read more…
To trim and shape one or two bushes in your front garden, to shorten a rapidly grown whip that appeared out of nowhere right in front of the window during the summer, you can use ordinary garden shears. As they say, snip — and it’s gone. Well, what if the volume of “hairdressing” work is Read more…
It is well known that fishing from a boat is better than from shore—usually such fishing is much more successful. But a boat, even a rubber one, is far from available to every adult fishing enthusiast. And where can one get such a watercraft, for example, for a young angler? Even finding a large inner Read more…
