REGIMENT INVISIBLE

SHELF INVISIBLEShelf I made for my bathroom, not much different from many similar, but due to some features of its design creates the impression that the shelves in the bathroom as it does not exist. The secret is that the size of the mirrored doors is slightly larger than the dimensions of the locker.

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YOUNGER BROTHER

A mini-tractor, which is presented to the readers of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, is the third built by me. His frame is “broken”, consists of two articulated half-frames, as in the heavy tractor T-150. A node of articulation serves as a node (or mechanism) of rotation. A used engine from a motorcycle “Ural”, equipped with a Read more…

STANGENSELLERIE

STANGENSELLERIECut the correct glass circle is not so simple. Usually on the sheet steklografom put the outline of future disk, and then not spend a dozen tangents. The resulting polyhedron is brought to the circle by a fine-grained whetstone. It is much easier to make this work with a homemade tool. Its basis is the caliper. The inner leg is clipped and hard solder attach pad. After Stripping through her and the leg is drilled through hole. In the resulting plug is inserted carbide roller from a standard glass cutter. As the axis is used, the bolt of suitable diameter. On the anchor leg of the caliper push the plastic mold. And the last thing you need to do is the metal disc Ø 30 mm with naturalnym in its center a recess with a glued to it with rubber gasket.

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CLASSROOM ABOVE THE CLOUDS

CLASSROOM ON THE CLOUDThe second of may 1952 from London Heathrow airport and went to the first commercial flight to Johannesburg, the world’s first passenger jet airliner “Comet” created by the British firm “De Hevilend”. Subsequent accidents and disasters that accompanied its operation, did not stop the desire of the world’s leading aviation powers to progress and the creation of new reactive machines.

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CATERPILLAR ELECTRICAL WIRE

THE CATERPILLAR OF THE ELECTRIC WIREOne of the most critical components of the machines crawler — tanks, all-terrain vehicles, armored personnel carriers, tractors, trucks is the suspension, particularly caterpillars. Their tapes, as you know, is assembled from separate parts — the tracks connected by fingers. Each track has a grooved surface — lugs deliver reliable traction. On the side of the track facing the rollers, is guide comb, preventing a descent of rollers with treadmill tracks the motion of the model, especially during turns.

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BLOW, ANOTHER BLOW — SAW IS READY!

BLOW, ANOTHER BLOW — SAW IS READY!The principle of operation of this device for cutting, or rather, cutting out of teeth on the blades for the hacksaw is simple. Its main part is a wheel with a cage, fortified it with four screws. On the surface of the cage is cut two or three strands of outer thread with a pitch, height and profile of the future teeth of a saw. Extreme thread thread partly removed with a cutter, or a chisel and chopped off the right angle: the end will perform the role of a punch. To increase the impact force to the flywheel attached two opposed.

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AS IF ON ANCHOR

In some areas of the apartment (kitchen, hall) door, usually left open. And fix it in this position will help ordinary magnet, mounted on the wall, but if the handle is steel. The magnet can be embedded or simply stick to the wall, opposite the door handles.   A. LATYSHEV, G. Almalyk

POTATO

Potato hasn’t been easy work. Meanwhile, a simple Assembly can radically transform it, making it significantly easier. In appearance he is a one-wheeled wheelbarrow, but not the usual wheel. It consists of three parts — two outer metal disks bent to the external side of teeth-lugs and the middle part, is sawn from a Board Read more…