CLEAVER TO ROCKS

CHOPPER ROCKPneumatic and hydraulic wedge created by a group of innovators from Vorkuta, relates to impact tools hung on the boom grunerstrasse machine. Simple in design, it has so much power that can be applied not only in the development of frozen soils under the pits and trenches, but also for breaking rocks. Externally, the wedge is like a great shell at the top (not tapered) part of which is mounted a hydro-pneumatic accumulator with a flexible diaphragm separating the working medium in the battery. In the same end of the device around the circumference is made of axial channels connected to the channels of the hydraulic cavity of the battery. The channels are arranged plungers, which transmit the fluid pressure of the battery on the firing pin.

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THE PLOWMAN, AND THE REAPER

THE PLOWMAN AND THE REAPERWhat a strange situation in our country, anybody can afford to buy a tractor — that it is not needed (well, except for fun in a rustic Villa), and to whom the tractor is necessary, because he lives off the land — to buy it, not the means. But bare hands without mechanization on the ground not much accumulated. That forced those who no tractor can not do, to do it yourself from another suitable or remanufactured units old or abandoned equipment.

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AND AGAIN, “THE MIRAGE”

AND AGAIN After publication in the “M-K”, № 1, 1978 of the drawings trace model “Mirage” edition receives a lot of emails from guys who decided to build it. They are interested in some of the “subtleties” of manufacturing technology of the body, its refined forms, ways of fastening of the engine and much more. The editors asked the author of the article “On the track “the Mirage” I. A. Nikolaychuk with the request to share the experience of manufacture and of preparation for the competition.

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LATEST FROM THE GDR

THE LAST OF THE GDRBMW Wartburg (GDR). The world is constantly changing—some States are split into several, while others prefer to merge into one. The latter include the FRG and GDR merged at the end of last century, unified Germany. The process of reunification of these States was not easy—the level of industrial potential of the Eastern part of the new country were significantly lower compared to the West, and the process of modernization of production demanded huge financial investments. Of course, a radical update is needed and the automotive industry, since the East German factories were producing at that time only not the most modern cars — mainly small car Trabant and Wartburg.

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