Doing for a long time, the construction and operation of velomobiles (was a prize winner of all-Union velofestivalya in šiauliai), I was convinced of their lack of practicality. The large size of the velomobile exclude the possibility of its storage in the apartment. Known foldable construction is complicated to manufacture and quite cumbersome. Used them on wheels, usually a Bicycle, not designed for the lateral loads experienced by the velomobiles on the bends.
To facilitate the movement of hooks for hanging curtains on the dural rail-ledge, offer to replace the metal calesini on the plastic, cut from a tube of suitable diameter. M. ASHKIN
during the period covering the country’s public deficit even the most that neither is ordinary iron burst in a number of regions in the category of “trudnoreshaemyh”. And is — alas! — quite expensive. But for the resourceful craftsman to make the original iron, as they say, no problem. You only need to thoroughly want… unlike the hero of the once popular song where the words are in the title of this material, the success of saadeldin guaranteed.
Performing of graphic works significantly faster if you add a spring reservoir for ink. Make it from medical pipette, attach it to the handle of the instrument with metal braces. So as not to crush the glass under the clamp should enclose a rubber gasket. At the end of the dropper is pushed tightly plastic Read more…
Gardeners will simplify the procedure of watering the plants and trees if you use this hint. The trick is in the plastic or rubber hose, which neatly done with a series of holes, giving a fan of the jets, simulating rain. This hose can be laid along the beds or collapsed in the ring around Read more…
Not so easy to store a bulky vacuum cleaner in a small kvartire. Meanwhile, it is quite possible to “hide” so that it did not occupy a special place. For example, it is very convenient to store the vacuum cleaner in a makeshift Ottoman. To collect it from the wooden bars; on top it is Read more…
Modelers often have certain difficulties in acquiring light and noiseless gears, wheels, propeller, and propeller and other parts for improvised structures. At the same time, these problems can be avoided if prudent, businesslike now use a throw away to landfill discarded, worn-out nylon products, old plastic items and other “synthetic stuff”.
When developing this design car trunk, the task was to create a device which, in addition to the normal daily functions would satisfy and lover of outdoor activities — would allow us to transport two sets of boards sailing in the summer and (with minor changes) 5-6 pairs of skis in the winter.
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|.
In the process of cleaning leaving cleaner air is not “dispersed” dust the room, suggest to the exit hole, insert curved pipe, directing the stream up. The corresponding diameter of the hole and the tube can be provide with podmahivala tape. A. IVANOV, S. Ivanovka
