STOVE… IN MY POCKET

STOVE... IN YOUR POCKETThe adventurous has a lot of gadgets for cooking in field conditions (stoves, soldering lamps, portable stoves, etc.). They need a supply of liquid fuel or wood. First — it is unsafe to store, and firewood in the mountains or in the steppe belese not find. For climbers and hikers, hunters and anglers offer a simple and easy to use stove that does not require traditional fuel. A mini-stove and a few packs of dry fuel in the backpack many places will not take.

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FIDO — HOMEMADE BOAT

FIDO — A HOMEMADE BOATIf you use our drawings and build this lightweight Dinghy roomy, believe me, will not regret it. The dimensions of the boat — 2,3X1,3X0,4 m and a weight of 32 kg. To build the best suited waterproof plywood, but you can use ordinary construction with a thickness of 4 mm. For cutting workpieces need leaf length 2400 mm as standard sheets have a smaller maximum size, the edges of their fill “on us” and stick together.

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CARTRIDGE MACHINE

CHUCK-AUTOMATICOn lathes one of the most common operations — machining centers. And here a lot of time is usually lost on such auxiliary stage, both the clamp and release the part in the Chuck. Especially noticeable these losses in large-scale and mass production. Participants NTTM-78 with the Moscow machine-tool plant named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze has developed a cartridge that at the beginning of the rotation he grips the workpiece. In what way?

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MINI-BOAT ANGLER

the Author with what tricks do not go to the fishermen, to much success. One day, my buddy is a big fan of fishing, lamented that it is often the catch is scarce only because of the fact that there is no way for you to go fishing-“the Donk” in the place where, by assumption, must be fish the bushes in the way, the strength is not enough. Then the idea was born to ship to fishing spots, tackle, and along with “baits” (complementary food in the form of pellets) to build a mini boat — RC small ship the size of a model.

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WHY IS THE BALL ROUND?

WHY IS THE BALL ROUND?Old hunters, when there was a fraction that came out of the difficulty is quite simple: crumbled in the pan scraps of lead, covered them with heavy disk and rotated it: rolling between two surfaces of the lead pieces took on a spherical shape. The same principle is incorporated in the machine used in the ball bearing industry for the finishing of the balls. They also run between the two discs, getting the perfect spherical surface.

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TO PLOW, MOW AND STACK CHANGE

TO PLOW, MOW AND STACK CHANGEIn rural life, there are many laborious works, which nevertheless must be done quickly, such as a spring — sown, summer — haymaking, harvesting in autumn and finally the snow in winter When they are executed, if there are many helpers, without mechanization not do a Great help on the farm would be workaholic-a tractor, but is it “rent”? So try the hosts of the farmsteads, knowing techniques to purchase inexpensive some broken tractor and restore it But for everyone of those too lacking, and therefore the “paracasei”, try to make the tractor themselves from discarded scrap metal units and units of different machines.

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GRAPHITIZE-NEAT

For fine edits slates sharpened pencils designers and architects typically use fine-grained sandpaper. But it may not be in the right moment at hand. Then I do the just use for this purpose a matchbox: always available, convenient, and the result is not worse. Gravityzoo-impromptu to make you less than a minute, even to glue Read more…

THE ECONOMY MONARCHY

THE MOST ECONOMICAL MONARCHYAn impressive victory by the Austrian fleet at Lissa, it would seem, has occurred in spite of all the prerequisites Indeed, the Italians were superior to his opponent not only in the number of combat ships and held their weapons artillery, but, more importantly, in quality. A large part of the squadron of rear Admiral Tegethoff consisted of “pieces of wood” who carried smoothbore cannons, and confronted them new iron battleships and cruisers with rifled guns. However, a good RAM blow battleship flagship “Ferdinand Max” and sent to the bottom of “Italian” “Re d’italia”, brought the Austro-Hungarian victory at sea — the first great victory in a pitched battle around the world since the great Nelson’s, and quite unexpectedly, put the “patchwork monarchy” among the great Maritime powers.

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