CAR TO GIVE

CAR TO COTTAGEUnder this title in the “photo stitch” (“modelist-Konstruktor” No. 2’93) was first published information about my home — country car. Since then, the mail never ceased wearing me letters, authors were asked to elaborate on his design. Reply all, of course, I couldn’t and now am glad to be able to do it on the pages of the magazine.

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GASOLINE IS NOT NEEDED

GASOLINE IS NOT NEEDEDI built most of the vehicles are based on commercially available motorcycle or bike noisy and power hungry internal combustion engines. It was with one hand comfortably, and the other is very troublesome, as the quality of the engines met rarely and had a lot of energy, and most importantly, time to spend on their completion and debugging. That’s why you always attracted to the idea of use as power unit of electric drive. Knowing that there are pros and cons, first and foremost, difficulties with the power source, the version of electrocycle always left “for later”. But first the absence and then the high cost of gasoline has forced to revisit her.

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SPIKES? NO PROBLEM

SPIKES? NO PROBLEMMost comfortable furniture, “serious” joinery collect connecting parts on the thorns. Technical requirements for the quality of such nodes is usually very high. Run them by milling or using special equipment. Existing designs handmade kiparisov, regardless of their complexity, there are drawbacks, and one of them — a large thick spikes with little their length and the insufficient depth of the eyes, the inconvenience of zapilivanie, and hence risk of injury.

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CORD SKATER

CORD SKATERThis cord pilotage has an excellent management system and has excellent maneuverability, which allows it to perform the most complex maneuvers. And most importantly – it never loses connection with the pilot due to robust tension cord at any point of the flight hemisphere. The design of this model is quite original and in many ways not consistent with accepted standards. In order to design such models, it is useful to get acquainted with the principles of determination of main parameters cord pilotage.

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SOLAR STEAM TABLES

SOLAR STEAM TABLESThe picnic, which happened to be with friends, will be remembered not only by the abundance of impressions, positive EMOTIONS, but also the uniqueness of what and how food fueled its organizers. After all, improvised marching steam tables this time served… cardboard box from under the computer, pre-laminated on the inside with aluminum foil. And as unconventional source of energy has made itself the southern sun.

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TABLE – MATRYOSHKA

TABLEEven in small apartments on special occasions are big companies, and then there is the problem of the table — are available, bring from neighbors. The proposed table for the living room can solve the problem. The fact that if necessary from it as if from the dolls removed the need for the reception… almost the same tables, lurking there in the form of boxes.

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THE MOUNTAIN BREEZE

THE MOUNTAIN BREEZENot so often at the winter tracks and the hills will meet snegohodnomu homemade equipment for children. This is mainly well-known industrial design of the “Chuk and GEK”. On some have low-power internal combustion engines. For all its obvious advantages, they also have disadvantages. However, avoiding discussion on the topic of “for” and “against”, look at the unusual layout of sled-monoskis with the motor.

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BRIGHTER AND SMOOTHER

BRIGHTER AND SMOOTHERIndustries is not only “pedal” means of transportation and sports equipment to strengthen leg muscles. In the right hands it is easily converted into a variety of small-scale mechanization, as “modelist-Konstruktor” has repeatedly been told on its pages (№ 11’81, 3’85, 2’87, 7’96). And therefore development, are addressed to cyclists — and fans of night riding with brightly burning (alternator) spotlight, may be useful to other readers.

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