MARTIN FROM THE FIREPLACE

Soldiers, chess pieces, furniture hardware, original buttons, cufflinks, commemorative badges and medals on the occasion of anniversaries of your friends — only a part of the list of products that you can make yourself, casting. This work is quite even those who have not had a similar experience: it is enough to have imagination, to be neat, and of course, to get simple equipment for home foundry.

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WINDSURFING: the prize of “M-K” — “Orbit”

WINDSURFING: the prize of We can safely say: all-Union competitions “the prize of the Heroes of the Cosmos” today, the most popular competitions of fans of Windsurfing. Last year, no” was attended by about 170 athletes that were part of the 32 teams. Start hosted the Olympic “Windglider” and Board a free class. Won the master of sports of international class V. Overgrown” (Vodnik, the master of sports Yuri Kuznetsov (“Orbit”) and Janis SOPs (Republican Central yacht club, Riga); women — Y. Kazakov, I. Sklemina (both from the “Vodnik”) and the Leningrad M. Dubinko. Team championship the team of the Armed Forces.

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MACHINE IN THE GARDEN

MACHINE IN THE GARDENIn the Food program of the USSR much attention is paid to food production in farmlands and suburban areas. A contribution to this important cause made the young Amateurs of RCUT of the Kazakh SSR. They prepared and tested a number of automatic devices that will help to grow agricultural products. The developers sought to create devices that are available for repetition at home. Oki have sufficient accuracy (±5-10%).

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HIMSELF A MAGICIAN

HIMSELF A MAGICIANChild joy. The spinning top is one of the favorite toys of kids. Some designs allow you to exhibit astonishing physical effects. The following illustrations show three of the top. The first of them is horizontal, it can be in two variants. Option And unwinds the palm of the hand, and the second (B) — thread (Fig.1); in both cases, the disk begins to rotate around the vertical axis. If the plane is to glue strips of colored paper, respectively, during rotation of the gyroscope can be observed, for example like colorful stripes “disappear” and the paper appears white, and black-and-white figures are converted into colored rings.

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