VENEER WITH YOUR HANDS

VENEER WITH YOUR HANDSOften the lessons of labor in school, in the classroom model of circles on the stations and in clubs of young technicians, there is a need in this very scarce material, like veneer. You can make yourself. This is evidenced by the experience of the chief technical circle of the Palace of culture in Bukhara on A. I. Tkachenko, which I decided to tell the readers of the journal. I think that it can be widely used in the classroom in circles and learning workshops.

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“PUMA” WHEELED

In the early 1980-ies of the IVECO group by order of the Italian army began construction of armored vehicle of a new family of wheeled APCS (4×4 and 6×6), received the official name of the Light Armoured Vehicle (AVL) 6634. The customer wanted to get some bigger machine and use it to solve a wider range of tasks together with fighters of tanks “centaur”.

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THE CEILING OF LEAVES

THE CEILING OF LEAVESIs it possible to make sound insulation of the ceiling? For this purpose, will serve a suspended acoustical ceiling. It performs several functions, it reduces the energy of the reflected sound absorbs noise and improves room acoustics. And as the sound-absorbing material used slabs of thin mineral fibers. It is important that they are porous.

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LIFT DRUM

HOIST DRUMIn the GDR skiing designed the lift with a drum on which is wound a pull cable. To do the same, you will need a moped engine with a working volume of 50 cm3, its exhaust transmission from the motor car, homemade rope drum and band brake to it.

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THE LAST “CLASSIC” AZLK

RECENT The family car “MOSKVICH-2140”. The car “Moskvich” 2140 index was put into production in December 1975. Its direct predecessor is called the car “Moskvich-408”, descended from the conveyor of the Moscow plant of small cars (MZMA) in 1964, the exterior of which, so different from a car design index 400, 401, 402, 407 and 403, became the basis for all future models until 1986, when AZLK went from rear-wheel “classics” on the issue of front-wheel drive “Muscovites” index 2141.

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SKIS AND CATERPILLAR

SKIS AND CATERPILLARA bit of history. I’m 48 years old. Twenty years ago with his younger brother built a sled “Idea-2” — material about him was published in the “Modeller-designer” №11 for the year 1991. Later, when I was Director of Заводоуковскоq station of young technicians under my supervision in her circles were made around 20 such structures with different bike engines of Soviet manufacture. I must admit that the construction of the snowmobile largely contributed to assigning me to this position.

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“EAGLE” THE FIRST-BORN RUSSIAN FLEET

Will have to make a reservation at once — reliable information, which is not causing doubts and questions about the shape and design of the firstborn of the Russian Navy, very little. Therefore, we decided not to give ready answers to all the questions do not encourage readers to blindly take our word for it, but just described the situation for what it is known to us today. Model ship “eagle” had already been built, and authors hats off to the people who once took on a noble mission to show his contemporaries, looked like the legend embodied in the canvas, wood and metal. We also tried to make another small step in this direction and we hope that following us will be a bit easier. So, remember the “eagle” — it’s worth it…

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GUN BEAUTY

GUN BEAUTYThe words “paint”, “paint” and “beauty” is not accidental cognate: new color allows you to see the subject in a new way, decorate it, make it brighter, more colorful. That’s why products from a variety of materials need painting, and for this purpose, a plurality of colored compositions and methods of their application. The old methods remain in force today, but they are very much soiled: clothes painter or carpenter because of the inevitable stains on it sometimes resembles an artist’s palette.

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