BLIZGAREVA

Many Housewives prefer to dry clothes in the street, and dries faster, takes on a special flavor. Here only each time with a rope hitch: to tie, to untie, and the wind so wound posted that the node becomes stuck. Meanwhile, even a schoolboy could make a simple improvement to a clothesline: two terminal hooks Read more…

FLYING ON “HORSE BACK”

FLYING Original swings will be interesting not only for preschoolers but also older children, because of their design, proposed by the Polish magazine “Throb himself”, brings to use a game element. The production of this flying horse is available to each of the parents — so simple is the device in closer examination of details. Also important is the fact that do not need special tools or missing parts — only what I usually have on hand at any DIY.

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AND ONE, AND TWO

ONE, TWOGeorge S. khokhlachov — military retiree, he was 77 years old. My entire adult life, he enthusiastically engaged in technical creativity: innovative work, radio, photos and much more. In their tireless search for homebrew regularly refers to the publications in scientific and popular journals, including the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. One of his last works G. S. khokhlachov decided to present the readers of our magazine: “the Last two years, I was fascinated by the design of the recumbent. From the book A. S. Popolove “let’s invent a recumbent” as a prototype of the selected “Springmail” N. Kudrin and V. Schipacheva. The frame design and General arrangement have not undergone significant changes, but the drive turned out, from my point of view, original and, I think, may interest the readers of the magazine and fans of velomobiles”.

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CIRCULAR SPOTLIGHT

CIRCULAR SPOTLIGHTDesigned and made by me lighting device externally, and by construction, some nodes resembles the flashing beacons of special machines. But the purpose of it almost the opposite — creating a smooth bright light, and at low power lamps — at a considerable distance. Well, since the scope of the devices are different and their structures are substantial, but rather fundamental differences.

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HOLD STILL, DETAIL!

HOLD THE ITEM!Billet parts designed for machining, not be displaced, to rotate, to vibrate or deform under the action of the cutter. In the process of manual handling (this applies primarily to the production of their own designs) can be used multiple ways of fastening plates, cylinders or tubes In the pictures are some of the options appropriate devices.

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THE SECOND BIRTH OF THE “FIVE HUNDREDTH”

REBIRTH Compact car FIAT 500 Nuova. The reconstruction of post-war Italy was slow and difficult, Even the car manufacturers the leader of the Italian industry FIAT for a long time have not offered to buyers of new machines, releasing a small series only of the pre-war models and they did not find any significant demand among indigent populations with the Exceptions of the baby FIAT-500 Topolino, created in the prewar years, the designer of Dante Diakonoi, but this once is the most popular in Italy, car with each post-war year sold worse — affected by the obsolescence of the design of the sample 1936.

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HUMBLE BUT STRONG

HUMBLE BUT STRONGI love tinkering and doing this for a long time; in many ways helps your magazine. So I decided to share my humble experience. A few years ago, designed his own house table. I don’t even know how to call it — whether coffee, whether still any. The fact is that as a way it has not been used! And a TV stood on it, and radio, and had Breakfast on it, and dined, and played. He is still in excellent condition.

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THE DIVIDING HEAD

DIVIDING HEADThis head is easy to do if your workshop has a lathe and welding machine, Setting it to any milling machine that can handle the head bolts penetrate the splines and spline grooves, cut into the gear teeth and to perform other operations. All items shown in the picture. A few clarifications. The base of the head is made from two steel angled sections with a flange width of 120 mm, welded among themselves. to between cheeks kept the size of 70 mm.

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