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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MODEL OF A PLASMA ENGINE

MODEL OF PLASMA ENGINEThe idea of the conquest of space is today the minds of people of all ages. Couldn’t stay away from space themes and Junior staff of the laboratories of experiment of Club of young technicians of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The subject of their research were plasma and ion thrusters, used to Orient spacecraft in orbit… but only in works of fiction. To make a working model of the plasma engine was conceived by the eighth graders Leonid Klem-Musatov and Yuri Torchinov.

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THE TANK DESTROYER “JAGDTIGER”

TANK DESTROYER

During the design of a heavy tank Tiger II Henschel firm in cooperation with the Krupp firm started to create a heavy assault gun based on it a New self-propelled gun was planned to equip 128-mm cannon, high-explosive shell which had a much greater explosive effect, than the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun FlaK 40 Wooden model of ACS in full size was demonstrated to Hitler on 20 October 1943 at the site of ARIS in East Prussia ACS made the Fuhrer the most favorable impression and was followed by “higher” the order to begin its serial production in the following year, on 7 April 1944 the car was named Panzerjager Tiger Ausf V (Sd Kfz 186), later simplified to the Jagdtiger After 13 days produced in the metal of the first sample At full combat weight of 75.2 t ACS was the most difficult of all involved in the Second world war military vehicles.

TRAINING GLIDER MODEL

TRAINING MODEL GLIDERSerious modeling starts with a small design. Noteworthy experience in the construction of the simplest models of gliders have gained members in the House of pioneers and school students of the Frunze district of Leningrad. In the first stage they do developed in the circle training model, then the glider “Junior” class A-1 and only then start making the model A-2, which ends the program of training of young modelers-athlete. Today the leader of the group V. Bashtannik acquaints readers with the first two gliders of Leningrad.

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