“ROLL” HAY — STACK

With the growth of livestock per farm farms there was a need of increasing the food supply. Forage – a very laborious process, requiring great effort and fine days weather loosens it a little. Manually, the old fashioned way with a scythe and a rake, with this task to cope became more difficult. Meanwhile, in private households gradually began to appear on trucks, tractors. It took them various agricultural implements, trailers and ancillaries. In particular, hay began to use balers. Now hay pressed in rolls of approximately 200 – 300 kg. They have to be transported from the field to the storage place. But try to raise the weight and throw in the truck or even lift on the truck tractor! So I got the idea to make the so-called tractor lift coils – rear unit operating from the tractor.

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ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF NATO

THE TASK OF NATOFighter-bomber FIAT G. 91. In February 1952, at the ninth session of the Atlantic Council in Lisbon, the decision was made for the NATO standard combat aircraft is a light fighter-bomber LWSF (Light-Weight Strike Fighter). In December 1953, NATO headquarters on the basis of the analysis of the Korean war he developed tactical and technical requirements for light single aircraft support ground troops — NATO Basic Military Requirement No. 1 (abbreviated — NBMR-1). March 18, 1954 this document is sent to all interested aircraft manufacturers of Europe.

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“LOTUS-56V” – A CAR WITH A SHIP’S PIPE

Picking up the prototype for the model with open wheels (the trace of A class), we did not immediately notice the car “Lotus” with a modest architecture of the body and a relaxed silhouette — machine like a machine. But one of the guys asked “innocent” question — why would he ship the pipe? After looking at the car more closely, we realized that the prototype carries many more mysteries: where is this race car exhaust pipe, where futerko, inlet air into the cylinders of the engine, why so few intakes, why is the car the same front and rear wheels, etc.? They began to understand, and found that perceived at first as “the ugly duckling” “the Lotus-56V” can rightfully be considered a “Swan” of motor vehicles.

SECRETS OF THE OLD PAINTER

SECRETS OF THE OLD PAINTERUsually on the surface of stored paint forms a film or crust, when removed often remain in the container its particles: once on the brush, they can spoil the work. Take the time to look for an opportunity to drain the contents of the can. Please cover it with a piece of rare fabric, for example, old nylon stocking, and a little indentation its the same brush: the paint will show through an improvised sieve and be pure as strained.

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THE GOAL IS QUALITY

TARGETING QUALITYIt’s safe to say there is not a single sector of the economy of our country, where would be a creative contribution to the implementation of the decisions of the XXV Congress of the party, the tasks of the five-year plan Komsomol members and youth. Tens of thousands of engineering developments of young enthusiasts of technical creativity, innovators and inventors, is introduced in industry, agriculture, construction and transport, contribute to the acceleration of scientific and technological progress, the early implementation of the plan. The best of them were presented at the Central exhibition NTTM-80 in Moscow.

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SCALE — POTATOES

Dissolved in water the salts deposited on the walls of the vessels for boiling in a permanent scale, which is difficult even mechanical cleaning. However, the scale is well softened and then deleted if the capacity to put potato peelings: after boiling the precipitated salt is easily scraped off with a wooden spatula.