
FROM THE BARREL — STRETCHER
They can be made in just a few minutes. For this you need to saw off part of an old metal barrel and attach it with bolts to handles (e.g., spade handles). Yu MACHALA, 13 pet., Lviv, Ukraine
SKI-VODOCHODY: ANOTHER OPTION
In the “M-K” №4 for the year 1989 was published an article devoted to the ski-Vodochody… I Read it and wished I still had not written to the editor, not shared with the readers of “M-K” for its development.
FOAM “MUFFLER”
The sound of water filling the toilet cistern, many are trying to reduce by means of rubber tubing, put on the fitting of the float valve. However, to significantly reduce noise, this measure does not help. Much more effective silencer made from a piece of foam — cubes with the size 30x30x150 mm. It is Read more…
IMPROMPTU FUNNEL
If you need to pour the liquid from the jar into a container with a narrow neck and a funnel on hand that can be use inverted lid with a hole from a teapot or sugar bowl. R. MOROSIN, Vologda
“MIRROR, MIRROR…”
I wonder whether someone from the research of sociologists on the importance of mirrors in women’s lives? Indeed, since the introduction of mirrors to the present day they have for the fair sex is some magical, magnetic power. It’s safe to say that none of the women can not imagine without them its existence. So if you don’t know what to present your beloved woman a gift, or how to win her affection, give the gift of mirror. And not just store-bought, and definitely added a homemade frame of the original form. Some interesting examples of design of mirrors offers the German magazine “Praktik”.
CURRANTS IN THE TIRE…
I agree that many of us had to watch near various settlements of dump scrap and scrap metal. Considerable space they take end-of-century Bicycle and motorcycle tires. Propose to extend their lives is to use them in the garden as holders of the branches of the currant bushes, gooseberries or raspberries. R. MIFTAKHOV, D. K Read more…
NAGGING “TOE THE LINE”
Starting to manufacture handmade furniture, a home master, most do not have the skills of carpenters professionals are faced with two main problems (not counting, of course, of the shortage of materials and tools) — how exactly to cut and how exactly to drill! Indeed, those who master these seemingly simple operations, it becomes on the shoulder almost any design, but… the skill takes time, and burned once, some often give up before they have lost all desire to make.
FIVE “SQUARES”
One of the problems of those who live in small apartments, a small area of the kitchen. To buy good kitchen set is almost impossible, and to a random set of furniture “fit” in not intended for it, the room, it is better not to dream. Nevertheless, there is a way, if engage in the manufacture of handmade furniture, as did our reader V. Saloed. This prompted the life of the solution allows to equip the kitchen, taking into account individual peculiarities of its plan, decoration and taste of the owner. So the in the drawings, the dimensions should be clarified, and if necessary — and to change under specific conditions.
THE SCREEN-GRID
Offer a convenient way to store lattices for the bathroom. They should be using metal hooks to hang over the edge of the bath in Thane they will not take the place of, and in addition, can serve as a decorative screen. These grills will be more convenient and less to break when you put Read more…










