Every individual developer strives to ease the heavy physical labor involved in various construction tasks by mechanizing them whenever possible. However, as often happens, there is no electricity on the site at this stage. One of the most difficult yet essential tasks is preparing mortar and concrete mixtures. In this case, both the performance and Read more…
Readers of “M-K” have long been familiar with the enthusiast of homemade soil cultivation equipment, amateur designer from Nizhny Tagil, Grigory Ivanovich ODEGOV. He was the one who managed to develop one of the most efficient motor winches, which outperforms power tillers, motor cultivators, and even microtractors in terms of productivity. And all this despite Read more…
Residents of villages and small towns, where asphalt roads have not yet reached and where “Volgas” and “Moskviches” start skidding after just a few meters past the outskirts in rainy weather or spring mud, have long dreamed of such a vehicle. Compact, maneuverable, economical to operate, and highly off-road capable — that’s how rural drivers Read more…
Many families today live in multi-storey buildings and use household washing machines. Anyone who has ever connected such a machine (to the electrical panel and plumbing system) knows how important both of these operations are. In particular, if the drain hose is poorly connected to the apartment’s fan pipes, a leak may occur. This can Read more…
Every gardener strives to heat their greenhouse as efficiently as possible. One of the most optimal methods is utilizing solar heat accumulated by the southern or eastern wall of a stone house. Building such a heliogreenhouse is quite simple. First, a trench is dug along the wall of the house, 1.1 meters deep and 0.8 Read more…
In a small utility block on my garden plot, I had a storage room measuring only 2.2×2.7 m. One hot day, the idea came to convert it into a mini sauna and also add a shower section. I installed a 100 mm thick partition wall in the center of the storage space along its entire Read more…
If someone had told the author some time ago that he would have to literally “reinvent the bicycle,” he would have taken it as a joke. However, that skepticism vanished after coming across a magazine article describing a “wind vehicle” built by Alexander Dvoynikov. The model had both air and propeller screws mounted on an Read more…
To live comfortably in the countryside, you don’t actually need much — electricity, plumbing, a decent toilet, and a sewage system. Electricity usually isn’t a problem — even if your summer cottage area isn’t connected to the power grid, you can always buy a portable gasoline generator and enjoy all the benefits that electricity provides. Read more…
Having a stove (wood or coal-fired) makes it quite possible to supply hot water to the kitchen sink and even a shower using a water heater — a device that utilizes the heat of hot flue gases exhausted through the stove’s chimney. The design and operating principle of the device are as follows (Fig. 1, Read more…
Boys seem to have a natural pull toward technology — probably something embedded in their genes. Yet, there’s a fairly long period in their lives (that so-called “transition age”) when they consider playing with toy cars too childish, but driving a real car is still not an option — and often, not even available to Read more…
