MODEL CONSTRUCTION

“TONGUE” WITH A SECRET

15.06.201813.05.2018Good recommendations

Quite often it happens that the “tongue” sneakers or shoes “has a habit of running away” to the toe thereby causing great inconvenience to the owner. None of this will happen if the “culprit” to make three additional holes, and lace to see Panzano in the figure.

NOT A FEATHER, BUT A PERK

15.06.201813.05.2018Good recommendations

Using that is a simple device to the electric hand drill, can greatly facilitate many of the operations for cutting the patterns on the wood. The curved fixture made of sheet steel, supplied with rubber wheels and zakreplyaetsya on a drill using a clamp. Instead of the drill in the Chuck is fixed perk-mill.

BIKE IS CHANGING THE SHOES

15.06.201813.05.2018Small-scale mechanization

For a man, far from technical creativity, the expression “reinvent the wheel” has a negative connotation: a waste of time, repetition of already traversed. However, the designer-Amateur gives it a different meaning. He rightly believes that nobody is perfect that new technique you can even find on the beaten road, and continues to look. …Muscovite Vyacheslav Kabatov came to the editorial office with his seven year old son. They brought a bike that… Well, him.

GREGORATOS – UNIVERSAL

15.06.201813.05.2018Our workshop

Perfectly round rubber gasket of any size or belt for the tape drive of the tape, you can cut from a sheet of rubber with this simple device. In addition, it can be used for cutting of large diameter holes in the plywood, plastic, plexiglass, cardboard and other similar materials.

OFF-SEASON ATV

15.06.201813.05.2018Design

Our magazine was one of the main popularizers of the recently introduced family of ATVs — vehicles for low pressure tires. All season, excellent permeability, the ability not to disturb the vegetation when moving through the forest or the tundra — the dignity of vehicles of this type immediately attracted the attention of lovers of Amateur technical creativity. And after the publication of the drawings one of the most successful designs — terrain vehicle “Harp” Vyacheslav Laukhina (see “M-K” № 5, 1984) — in our country there were hundreds of machines of the same scheme.

LIGHT AT LOW SPEED

15.06.201813.05.2018Good recommendations

Velodyne, works great at high speed, but worth a go on a broken road — the spotlight begins to fade. The reason is lack of frequency of rotation of the rotor of the generator at low speed. To bring the revs back to normal, I advise those who do mostly ride the bike at low Read more…

INSTEAD OF DUCT TAPE

15.06.201813.05.2018Good recommendations

I want to share with the readers of “M-K” a small trick that often helps me when it is urgent for insulating wires and electrical tape no. Done in this case so I cut a strip from the plastic bag, wrapped it tight junction, and the end of warm up a match and pressed firmly.

THE TWO-STORY BREADBOX

15.06.201813.05.2018Tips readers

Despite the fact that the industry offers an increasing selection of bread bins, they are still rarely meet the requirement of vowel — good preservation of bread: he is in them or quickly get stale or moldy. More reliable in this respect, structures of wood, especially because they are readily available for self-production.

SCHEMATICA CLIMBS

15.06.201813.05.2018World of models

We offer a simple glider is designed for young athletes, students 4-5 classes. The model is simple to manufacture, does not contain elements from scarce materials and can be recommended for “small batch production” in all circles of the cart.

AROUND SILVER SPOKES

15.06.201813.05.2018Small-scale mechanization

It turns out that the bike besides one of the most ancient modes of transport: it is depicted on the recently discovered risuna Leonardo da Vinci related and 1495, that is, will soon celebrate its quincentenary.And at the same time, the bike is forever young, because with each new development it seems to be reborn. Today there are more than 20 thousand patents for a variety of venoconstriction! And the search continues. And it involves not only professional designers, but also a large army of Amateur enthusiasts and fans of pedal techniques, including readers of our magazine. The direction of this search are diverse, but among them we can highlight some General trends.