In garden and dacha benches, the seats suffer most from atmospheric exposure: snow caps accumulate on their horizontal surface, which become soggy during thaws, and rain also has its destructive effect. Painting with oil paints certainly helps, but doesn’t save them. However, there is a way to make the seat as durable as the backrest. Read more…
If there is no separate children’s room in the apartment, organizing a workspace for a schoolchild is not so simple, and even more so if there are two students in the family. However, even here the design ingenuity of home craftsmen suggests a solution. Here is what solution to the problem is offered, for example, Read more…
If a radio amateur’s inventory is burdened by a low-power portable radio station (or a set of two stations) designed for communication in the civilian range of 26.9 — 27.2 MHz, I propose a way to make good use of them. Often, a radio amateur is simultaneously a car owner and a dacha owner, who, Read more…
Versatility is the main advantage of the multi-operation woodworking machine I developed. It can handle turning work, planing, material sawing, drilling and milling, and tenoning operations. Finally, you can sharpen tools on it or turn it into a woodworking bench. Lathe. It is the foundation of the “universal” machine and consists of a cabinet, bed, Read more…
Good for the classics! They go beyond the outskirts, to protected places — boundless expanses, tall grasses, fresh breeze. Everything sets a poetic mood. And so it’s born: “Mow, scythe, while the dew…”, “Spread out, shoulder, swing, arm…” But the ordinary modern “urbanized” villager (and the city dweller — owner of a small plot of Read more…
I discovered the sketch of a small motorcar-truck, which this article is about, in an old folder during a major cleanup and reorganization in my garage archive. It brought back memories of those times when enthusiasm for technical creativity—building homemade machines, boats, aircraft, and various other constructions—was, one might say, widespread. I also developed a Read more…
Many owners have to start developing their garden, vegetable garden, or dacha plot by ensuring it has water. I began with solving this problem as well. The water on the plot lay relatively close to the surface — at a depth of about 4.5 m. A shaft well could have been dug. But water consumption Read more…
The proposed development has, of course, nothing to do with space. In this case, PMC (Control Center) is a control center for only the power supply of electrical equipment, not for flights into the Universe. Constructively executed as a compact electrical panel, it contains the most essential automatic blocks for a garage. Here are the Read more…
The house is built. Electricity is connected. Winter is coming… I suggest making a water heating system using an automatic tubular electric heater (TEN) “Ariston”. Reliability and automatic regulation of maximum heating are big advantages of this company’s “tens”. The simplest option is a boiler with a single-phase heater, similar to a piece of pipe. Read more…
Aviation mechanic M.A. Masterov is one of that remarkable group of amateur designers that the Udmurt land has always been proud of. His achievements include such serious works as delta- and motorized deltaplanes, an aircraft of his own design and a restored Yak-18T, various machine tools, and much more. Today, all the craftsman’s efforts are Read more…
