NEED A REFRIGERATOR?

NEED A REFRIGERATOR?Every year with the arrival of winter in edition beginning to receive letters in which readers expressed legitimate confusion about unreasonable, in their view, the energy consumption of household refrigerators. Indeed, at a time when the window — bitter frost home refrigerator with a rumbling absorb all the new kilowatt hours of electricity to lower the temperature inside the refrigeration Cabinet two to five degrees Celsius and inside the “freezer” — to minus ten or fifteen. However, today few people remember that in the houses built before the war in the kitchens was located built-in wardrobe-fridge, which is a niche in the outer wall, which with a few holes communicating with the outside air and had a thick door with insulation. Of course, this refrigerator was not very reliable: when you thaw frozen foods melted, and in extreme cold turned into ice blocks that freeze should not.

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RUNNING ON WAVES

RUNNING ON WAVESFrom the very beginning of the history of water transport designers and engineers sought to give the courts the ability to move with the greatest speed. It was necessary to reduce the hydrodynamic resistance of the hull. The race for “Ghost of speed” led to the most radical solution -to completely eliminate contact of the hull with the water surface! This was made possible thanks to the creation of wig – the courts break the wings.

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AGAIN, BUNK

ONCE - BUNKAs the mail “Club home of the masters” children’s bunk beds are a permanent interest among the readers of “M-K”. This topic is particularly relevant in recent time when many are simply unable to acquire this furniture in the store. And how I want to make the children happy and to provide good conditions for sleeping and a place for games to release…

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SO RELIABLE

In the manufacture of bookcases I made sure that the connection is full to the walls with nails, spikes or corners and base rails with screws is not always provides the strength and rigidity of the structure due to drying of wood, glue, and therefore not very reliable. I think that a more practical way Read more…

WASHING MACHINE BUCKET…

WASHING MACHINE FROM A BUCKET...When my second child was born, before us again there is a problem washing diapers, raspashonok and sliders. To wash hands? Long and tedious. Wash in a big washing machine? It is not profitable — either on the consumption of washing powder, nor the consumption of water and electricity… and the time on the big machine that have to spend quite a lot. Of course, you can buy a small, such as “baby” or “Fairy”, but now that the machine, the bucket is difficult to buy.

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“HYDRO-N” FROM SWEDEN

The popularity of not so long ago, the class of boat Hydro n today remains very high. In some Western countries, interest in new high-speed gliders eclipsed hobby other RC models. It’s not so strange. In established sports school a professionalization of equipment, and the average Modeler has become extremely difficult to compete with the masters. A class “Hydro” up to the present time the design of the glider remained simple n easily replicable. Attractive another factor. The fact that the average speed “Hydra” (about 100 km/h!) two times higher than any other boat. Of course, once you try to control such appliances, few people will want to come back to “snail”. Race track is very simple (oval, around two “pylons”), In one race at the same time involved up to five athletes. This increases the intensity and passions of sports and entertainment competition. By the way, even the simplified system of reckoning. No tables for specific speeds or seconds. The winner of each race gets the maximum number of points, and each subsequent participant, the corresponding place in the race.