SAILING WINDMILL…

SAILING THE WINDMILL...They say everything old is new again. And energy here, it seems, is no exception. Burned on Chernobyl, faced in some places with the threat of an energy crisis, mankind increasingly turns its gaze on technical solutions, unfairly written off in the past in the archive. The use of the gratuitous forces of the wind among such solutions. Come to them in their creative pursuits and like to make things with their hands (see, for example, “M-K” № 4/84, 5/86, 6/90, 7/92|.

THE MOTOR OUT…NAILS AND SCREWS

THE MOTOR OUT...NAILS AND SCREWSBefore copiers that manufacture aircraft models in the Mel scale, often raises the problem of simulating a power plant with a radial engine. Offers an unusual method based on the use of… conventional steel screws or bolts. First, you need to pick up screws with fine or medium threads, the outside diameter corresponding to the cylinder size of the engine. The screws are trimmed to length and with one edge sharpened needle files tapered tetrahedron (the angle and depends only on the number of cylinders). Then, treating the sharpened surface etched with acid, they oblizyvaet using a soldering iron.

EASY PRESERVING

COMFORTABLE CONSERVATIONPreparation for the winter vegetables, fruits and berries in many cases, connected with great inconvenience due to the imperfections of technology and primitiveness kitchen appliances for the job. I would like to offer home hosts a very simple device that helps to simplify and even to protect their work. Let me remind you a bit of a process. Filling vegetables. for example tomatoes, 3-liter jar, pour boiling water over them. After enduring for some time, the hot water is drained.

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