Few ocean giants — “Rurik”, Gromoboy and Rossiya, though it presented a menace to navigation “ancestral enemy” — Britain in the case seemed such a possible war, but the scale of such threats were clearly insufficient. Three ships, even very powerful, did not make the weather. Cruisers need to have a lot; this postulate was confirmed by the experience of past wars and the logic has not yet occurred.
F5-M — YACHT CHAMPION
The classification of the European Association of Amateur athletes of ship modeling sport (“NAVIGA”) provides for managed competition models of sailing yachts in three classes: F5-M (“Marblehead”), F5-10 (“Enricher”) and F5-X (free). The design of boat models the first two classes has the names of the first winners of the European competition.THE LOCKING MECHANISM FOR HANGERS
Now, increasingly, reminders to us of the purchased clothing meets recommendation: to dry after washing on hangers. However, on the clothesline they are — a favorite toy of the wind: a pin is not secure, and that drives them, twirling, and then reset. Saw a jig saw and plywood or plastic such that the suspension Read more…
A TRAILER THAT CAN FLOAT
Its quality says the mere fact that he was in the SAI and the Commission on small boats of the city. Trailer six, the engine “Breeze-12”, remote. The trailer is made of sheet steel and aluminum, weighs 380 kg. inside, there are miniature pantry, two sofa beds, a washstand, gas stove, sink and even a TV. The upper part of the roof removable.VELOTANDEM – “ROAD”
Description a three-wheeled tandem, published in issue No. 3, 1979, I liked inherent in it the idea to tandem bike of the usual single, without making major changes to the original design. But the proposed version was not very satisfied: still frame of the second bike had undergone the unwanted interference. I wanted to find a way of articulation, that when there is no need to tandem it was possible to restore the bike to original form.
MAPS AND METAMORPHOSIS
What started karting? In the 30-ies very popular among American boys was competition for non-motorised trolleys moving along slant paths. Some Joker aptly called them “racing soap boxes.” And not without reason. The first truck actually had instead of the body wooden box, attached the wheels, instead steering was a rope connected to the ends of the front axle. Over time, the “racing soap boxes” has gained the rank of all-American Championships, which often have become well designed and carefully made by non-motorised carriages. But their name lived for a long time.FIRST GIMLET
To facilitate the screwing of the screws in the wooden part or wall of the tube made a simple device — a small gimlet, and doing some preliminary socket-deepening. Here is it the screw even by hand easily screwed in a few turns — then we can tighten it with a screwdriver. By the way, Read more…
THE ADVENTURES OF “AMERICAN” IN RUSSIA

Passenger car GAZ-A. Many people know the famous saying of the Patriarch of the American car industry Henry Ford — “the Buyer is entitled to choose a car of any colour provided that its color will be black.” However, not everyone knows that the Ford-T was painted black not because of the aesthetic preferences of the Ford to the Kohler. The reason for this was purely technological — Assembly-line production with its rigid rhythm were taken for drying the body after painting a certain, very short time, which in the early XX century was granted only black Japanese quick-drying enamel…
BRAKE light FOR BICYCLE
Agree to see ka road in the evening time the cyclist is not easy, even if the two-wheeled machine and is equipped with reflectors-reflectors. Especially fraught with danger moments braking — braking road bike is relatively small. Conclusion: non-motorized transport are needed now stop the signal.PLIERS-HARVESTER
This unusual hand tool created by the innovators of the Volgograd plant of oil engineering. Pliers designed for flaring pipe lubrication systems and hydraulic control of various machines and machine tools. Simple in design, they at least shorten the time and simplify the technology of flaring. The body of the pliers consists of two hinged halves on their joints in the center holes Ø16 mm.









