Amphibious Schwimmwagen (Volkswagen Typ 166) — German floating four-wheel drive all terrain vehicle for military use, developed on the basis of “national” Volkswagen Beetle and army all-terrain vehicle VW-82 “Kubelwagen”. Produced from autumn 1942 to the summer of 1944 to the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS instead of heavy motorcycles with sidecar, appeared on the Eastern front because of low passability on the roads, and especially in slush.
For drying clothes usually are stretched one or two ropes, but wide things on them is placed a bit, you have to lengthen them. However, if the Laundry on the clothesline to hang not along and across, things would fit much more.
Wood handle plumbing tools will eventually fail and require replacement. Buying or making a new one, not in a hurry to wear it. First, on the shank of the chisel rasp, make several oblique notches — they firmly hold the handle of a jump-out, and that lasts a little longer, put it on the front Read more…
The need for large apertures of various diameters occurs very often. Some cut them with a jigsaw, others use a drill and then sanded the edges with a file, others are turning to so-called centraliza — fit to a normal drilling machine.
To saw thin-walled metal pipe clutched in a vise — employment is not easy. Not only because the accompanying screeching grates on the ear. The work itself is difficult: in one direction the saw is more or less easy, but the other can’t get. Especially if the material is soft, e.g. aluminium. Put in place Read more…
What happens if you cut a cylinder and two parallel planes at an angle to its axis and to replace the resulting “pancakes” wheels of a conventional car? It turns out that in the end we will get the vehicle of the increased passability. On normal roads this car moves exactly the same as a car with standard wheels, because at any point, the distance from the road to the axis remains constant, equal to the radius of the cylinder. Of course, with the difference that leaving a trail is not straight, but curved in the form of a sine wave.
The coil is the most convenient form of packaging thin sheet materials and for the transportation and storage in warehouses. Foil, a synthetic film or paper in a tightly collapsed become a monolith, convenient in handling and are not particularly suffering from the hard grips of different mechanisms.
This little car (Fig. 1) I did back in 1972, and it is already my second son, Sasha. He was only three years, but he leads the electric car is almost like a real chauffeur. The car became a favorite toy of kids all around, and how else — steering, brakes, lighting, sound signal, turn on the rear — all on this car!
Once instructed the boys to handle on turning the glasses of the part having a stepped hole. The hole is cut, usually in two stages: first inserted into the rear Babin smaller drill bit — drilled the hole, then a tool with a wedge knocked out of the cone and there you insert a different Read more…
Modern kitchen cookware has a smooth bottom, but among old pots, pans are still found with a rounded bottom. On a normal, smooth stand this cookware is fragile. More convenient in this case, self-made from small ceramic tiles, glued BF-2 to a square sheet of rubber of thickness 6 — 8 mm. Under the weight Read more…
