For soldering nichrome, the guides recommend a special activated fluxes TRL-1 or TRL-120. Not all are available. Where to find a replacement? Suggest: in the home medicine Cabinet. Check it aspirin. He successfully replace deficient fluxes, because the medicine is acetylsalicylic acid. Under the hot tip of the iron it melts, wets nichrome wire and easily dissolves oxides on its surface. Treated with aspirin wire should be tinned with stinging, but in a rosin to remove excess acid and prevent further destruction of the metal.MICROVERTEX
Work bench at home — an unattainable dream for many craftsmen, therefore, frequently suffer from the usual tables. However, any counter top will remain intact, if to make for her this patch. For such microvertical suitable cut sheet of chipboard to which one end of the top and bottom are nailed on the other, and Read more…



On 37-th Moscow city competition of young men in the micro models, held at the tennis court “Dynamo”, the attention of fans and athletes drew suddenly appeared in the air brightly colored model airplane. She almost silently circled the ceiling of the court, and after a minute or two gently landed. On refilling the tank and running the engine only took 30 seconds and was again in flight. This model installed on the original engine it says the author is the head of the aircraft modeling lab of the Moscow House of young technicians of a name of P. I. Baranov master of sports I. SHKALIKOV.


How to be autoconstruction mug? What it should build cars? How to organize classes? These and many other questions were raised in the recent publications of M. Larkin, and L. I. F. Rychkova “Project — model — car” and “car Designer — car designer!” (“M-K” № 1, 1979). More of our readers interested in the technical side of things — the device is modular inputs to directly affect. Today we offer the latest development autoconstructor laboratory Cut of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences — the micro-car, only “Protein”.
Kitchen wall hangers allow you to place them in limbo the many auxiliary devices — from the ladle to tolkushkoy, which, of course, very convenient: all in the mind, everything is at hand. Except… knives. Most often they are forced to rest in the drawer. And it requires, perhaps, more frequently mentioned instruments: one or the other. Twitches here and a box here and there, and need to take the knife from the heap is not very handy.

After the Second world war, the automotive industry of many European countries were in deep crisis. The post-war devastation, unemployment, inflation — all of this contributed to the growth of sales of expensive models. In these circumstances, many European firms began to produce a compact motorized wheelchairs, it is available to the public.
Successfully participated in Izhevsk in the Russian tournaments (1978) on experimental models of type “a flying wing” command of Leningrad. All the participants become
