FAMILY, UNIVERSAL

FAMILY, UNIVERSALFor many years now, I constantly write and read the magazine “modelist-Konstruktor”. I was particularly interested in the materials, which describes autocostruzione. But until recently even and could not imagine that I will have a homemade machine. However, with the technique I have been friends since childhood, but the experience of autocostruzione had to acquire in the process of working on the car. All was solved when I got the magazine No. 9 for 1984 with the description of avtomol Stanislaus Chopanova from Yerevan: I understand — that’s what I need. Taking it as a basis, began designing and manufacturing its “jeep”, making changes and additions in accordance with commercially available components and materials. In parallel, the produced arc welder, compressor, original shearing machine of his own design that can cut metal of unlimited length and totally deforming it.

POWERED FLASHLIGHT

POWERED BY FLASHLIGHTDuring the experiments, building various electronic projects there is often a need for a DC source of relatively high capacity. For example, the battery voltage of 4.5 V is composed of three elements of “373.” To do this, you can put them in the original container tape out cut Velocimetry (see “M-K”, 1986, № 4), bonding like candy wrappers, wrapped in heavy paper (“M-K”, 1988, № 6), or dock in a unit with paper capsules-“shirts” from the same items (“M-K”, 1989, № 11). But still to provide a sufficiently reliable contact in such cases is not always possible. That is why many are still doing the old-fashioned way — connect the elements with each other lengths of wire with rations.

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WITH SAGOMATO AGAINST THE SNOW

WITH SAGOMATO AGAINST THE SNOW“Swept Blizzard track, had powder…” needless to say, the song is perceived poetically. But when himself with a shovel in hand you get to clean up-rake nametennym drifts, there can be no songs, mast is one! But pretty tired muscle make intense to excite a thought: would it be possible to mechanize the cleaning of snow? Born as a result of sometimes the most interesting technical solutions. And the editorial mail in winter — a visual confirmation.

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FOR EVERY DAY AND HOLIDAYS

FOR EVERY DAY AND HOLIDAYSA lot of us country lovers powerboat, or rather one of its varieties — far sports travel. For them, the boat become not only a means of transportation, but also a kind of house, sometimes for quite a long time. But for the residents of the settlements located on the banks of rivers or reservoirs, a motor boat is an everyday mode of transport: whether to go for food in the neighboring village to the district center to the doctor, to go fishing or hunting — in many places this can be done only by water.

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THROUGH FIRE AND BLIZZARD

THROUGH THE FIRE AND THE BLIZZARDThe beginning of this century has given mankind many inventions. Stunned by the enormous speed of technological progress, people do not have time to get used to the newfangled term “car” as they were attacked with even more new “airplane.” And cost them to get used to, for example, the word “phone” as we had to learn the concept of “wireless telegraphy”. 1904 was the date of birth of another device, which later received widespread. That’s about it, in 1905, reported in the journal “the Balloonist”, calling it a “sled with air band for movement through the snow”. Was mentioned and the author of the design — engineer of the S. S. Nezhdanovskoe.

RUN… FROM THE WALL OUTLET

RUN... FROM THE WALL OUTLETEvery driver knows how it is sometimes difficult to start the engine of a car on a winter morning after long Parking. However, a relatively simple device powered from an AC mains voltage of 220 V will greatly facilitate this task. The device consists of two parts (Fig. 1), one AC power supply (voltage 12 to 14 V); the second part is mounted in the engine compartment of the vehicle. They are connected to each other using a special connector.

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THE ARSENAL OF SWEET BERRIES

ARSENAL OF SWEET BERRIESStrawberries, strawberries… They are often confused with each other, but the best berries I think rightly. Bright, juicy, fragrant. Cream and sugar is a great dessert. Excellent and jam, and jelly, and medicinal fees-teas. Especially strawberry. It is characterized by spherical-conical shape, whitish color more than half the berries, extremely strong pleasant smell. From large-fruited strawberry called in common parlance also strawberries, these properties are expressed slightly weaker. But for yield and drought resistance of the opponent is superior, because it is cultivated very widely.