“FIREFLY-2”

Readers already familiar with the workings of the Chisinau children’s club “Firefly” of the Ministry of Moldova. Last year, the “M-K” printed drawings, model air combat “Firefly”. This simple, durable and unpretentious bouzouki like many beginning modelers, as we judged by the numerous sent to our club e-mails.

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THE YACHT OF KAYAKS…

YACHT OF KAYAKS...Kayak in the open sea… Not even if is”? Well, it depends on what kind of kayak. “Petrel were” — the lightest boat, the description of which is offered to your attention, is not afraid of windswept expanse or sea waves. The survivability of the ship is ensured by its design. Add to this the accuracy on the course and the safety for crew and cargo in extreme weather conditions. In spite of the elongated body, the boat easily, as sailors say, “clears” from the wave, and has a good “viable” even in cool water shafts. All control systems work quickly and reliably, and steering is effective in any maneuver.

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IN THE SERVICE OF THE DRUG CARTELS

IN THE SERVICE OF DRUG CARTELSThe story of midget submarines began with the artisanal submarines, which can now perform almost any large engineering company – would the money from the customer. But in our time and customers a lot of money, and we are talking primarily about the smugglers and the traffickers. The one who followed world news, noted that in recent years has repeatedly documented cases of the use of midget submarines for the delivery of drugs from Latin America (primarily Colombia) to Mexico, USA and Canada.

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LIGHT THE TINDER

LAMP FROM TINDERSaw a tree in the woods tinder fungus — big, beautiful, bizarre. The bottom had white and porous, the top is dark brown with yellow and reddish stripes on the edge. Sorry to leave such a handsome man in the woods. Gently separated him from the tree, put in the package. Home dried, aligned with the saw sidewall-base, drilled a hole under the wire. Screws attached metal eyelet — for attachment of the fungus to the wall, convex side up. Painted it white with latex paint, top coated with varnish.

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HYDROCORT MUSTANG

HYDROCHART MUSTANGIt was called hydrocardon, although it is more like a kind of water motorcycle. Built is sports microsode the Donetsk regional station of young technicians in the circle of “Small shipbuilding.” As reported in the editorial of the Director of the station N. Vladimir Vasilyev, the club celebrates this year its fifteenth anniversary. Initially, in the classroom young engineers studied the structure and purpose of a variety of sports and pleasure craft, have developed a new design .mostly motor boats. The work aroused great interest guys, but I felt that something still was missing. It soon became clear that the young “shipbuilders” I wanted not only to create a motor court, but also to experience them and more — to compete: whose machine was faster, so, technically perfect.

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INCREASE THE RELIABILITY OF THE “GRINDER”

INCREASE RELIABILITY A master homebrew, working with metal, have in their Arsenal, angle grinder, called colloquially the “grinder” (the name originated in the old “stagnant” times, due to the fact that this power in the USSR were exclusively Bulgarian production). The undoubted positive qualities (high performance, ease of use, versatility, etc.) have angular shlifmashiny quickly wear out and even break the teeth of bevel gear pairs. To acquire the right set of gears and to sort out the gearbox — no problem. However, this does not relieve further from repeated repairs. It’s all about the grease, or rather in its failure. In the process of thick grease under the action of centrifugal forces distributed over the walls of the casing, divided into sectors by ribs, and thus out of business.

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STAIRCASE WITH… “BOWSTRING”

STAIRWAY... A lot of different equipment and tools required for the country, and especially subsistence farming. Not least among them is the largest ladder that I once needed, and quite long (or in this case, we can say, high) — about two meters. It quickly produced from the existing old water pipes. By design, it was simple: two parallel stands of pipe with a diameter of 28 mm and a few cross-steps between them from a pipe with a diameter of 21 mm, the Gap between the uprights “in the light” — 300 mm, approximately the same distance between the crossbars. The details connected by means of electric welding.

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HELP YOURSELF

HELP YOURSELFthe Disease of the spine is not spared me. Arose unpleasant sensation of pain is not allowed to operate as before. Numerous visits to doctors, taking the prescribed medicines gave temporary relief, but not enough to feel comfortable even for a short time at the computer made itself felt. Pomaia some time, came to the conclusion that in addition to drug treatments spine you need physical help unloading correction device. It turned out that commercially available special belt designed specifically for the correction of the spine. I have consistently purchased and tried out some different designs. Unfortunately, none of these zones I didn’t significantly help.

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