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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THE OUTLET IN THE CARTRIDGE

PLUG IN CARTRIDGEIn order not to keep the additional wiring to connect the auxiliary electrical appliances at work using portable lamps, enough cartridge “carrying” to install a homemade adaptor as shown in the figure. For the manufacture of the adapter is used the lighting cartridge, in which are drilled three holes: one in the bottom under peeled from the glass and glue the cap the blown bulbs and the two side under the plug. Before you glue the base with epoxy resin in the bottom, it is soldered from the inside of a flexible insulated conductor with a length of 45 — 50 mm.

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AND YOU DON’T NEED PALNT

AND DON'T NEED A PALNTIf you are going to build something: garage, sauna, shed, and maybe the house, but you lack the materials, cinder blocks, made with your own hands, you’ll come to the rescue. Need form of sheet metal with a thickness of 3 mm. Together with his assistants, using the mixer, you can in a day without special effort “to release” up to 300 pieces of blocks. A lot or a little? Judge for yourself: a garage with a size of 6×4 m need 450 of these units, and one floor house of size 6,5×8 m — 1000.

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“SCHEMATICA” CLASS B1

Proponents of class rezinomotornaya expense of building a traditional model B1, do not turn the page of the magazine, seeing the drawings of equipment, by the external signs relating to the child “schematical”! Overcome the neglect of long ago you passed the scheme and read the material. You may find many interesting things.

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IN SPITE OF THE AIR FLOW

IN SPITE OF THE AIR FLOW“Aerodynamic” Chrysler Airflow. Biography of Walter Chrysler of the typical American entrepreneur. Before creating his own company, he has worked as an assistant locomotive engineer, and Manager of the American locomotive company and the General Director and company President of Buick and Vice-President of General Motors, and President of the company Willys-Overland, and head of Maxwell-Chalmers. However, the first private car appeared Walter Chrysler only in 1920 when he was 45 years old. To get acquainted with his design, just before he tore apart and then reassembled it, and only after that decided to get behind the wheel.

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THE MAT WORKS WONDERS

MATTING WORKS WONDERSIf you think about it, furniture design mainly concerns the appearance of objects, and the main elements of the design still remain. So, you can transform old furniture. Take, for example, the kitchen table. What’s wrong with it, still? Rustic? Yes, but the new is not difficult. Except that instead of top sheets they are beautiful and practical plastic. Old outdated painted with oil paint? True. But the magazine “Burda” tells an original way to finish, after which even veteran communal kitchen furniture will look better than other contemporary “modernism”. And only need matting or Mat, since they now often are found on sale.

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“TREAT” TRACK

Wow, what a shame — cracked and crumbled concrete path on your country station! To talk about the fact that slim was a layer of mortar or the soil slipped, too late… But you shouldn’t be upset— your track is easily “cured”. But this must be done as quickly as possible, while the crack is small.

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