A dustpan for cleaning up trash—it would seem, what could be simpler. But no, even this elementary product has its problems. Stores sell plastic dustpans (one-piece stamped) and ones with a metal scoop and wooden handle. Neither type is particularly reliable: they break at the bridge where the handle joins the vertical back wall of Read more…
This machine, operating from a single-phase AC network at 220 V, was manufactured in a technical creativity club at a lyceum. It turned out to be compact and convenient, meeting safety requirements. In addition to drilling holes and countersinking, the machine can also perform simple grinding and milling work using various attachments. The machine has Read more…
When executed carefully, such a table, despite its rather simple construction, can decorate not only a country house or dacha, but also a city apartment. Especially since now many home craftsmen, making furniture with their own hands, strive to move away from the monotony of industrial samples, for example, when decorating a dining corner in Read more…
The first homemade motorized helper appeared in our family almost 20 years ago. We built it according to V. Ilyichev’s design, published in one of the issues of the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine. And we were convinced how good it is to have a universal motoblock in the household, which won’t let you down in any task, Read more…
Bolts, nuts, washers, cotter pins, and other small items are necessary in any household. Or, say, jars and bottles with spices, seeds, chemical reagents… It’s good when all of this is not in “working disorder,” but at hand, in a homemade glass storage rack, the square cells of which are quite capacious and compact. The Read more…
We read in your magazine about how to store vegetables on the balcony and decided to take advantage of the editorial invitation to share our experience. We’re sending a description of a storage unit that’s simpler to build and operate, which has been serving us reliably for seven winters without any special maintenance or repairs. Read more…
The proposed mini-farm is designed for breeding and keeping rabbits of any breed in both private and public subsidiary farms. Its basis is a two-tier cage-module (if necessary, there can be several of them, united by a common roof). The farm’s design and maintenance regime are thought out so that it can be used even Read more…
The proposed plow originated, one might say, from a shovel. One spring day on my garden plot, I was making furrows for planting root crops. The soil had been previously plowed, but I had to work bent low, and therefore suffered quite a bit. In the yard at that time, my first-grader grandson Igor was Read more…
In recent years, foam catamarans have begun appearing on the water bodies of the Urals. They are unsinkable, convenient to operate, durable, and simple to manufacture. The figure shows the design of such a catamaran. Its dimensions: 3750X1600 mm, plate thickness from 40 to 150 mm, float height 200 mm and width 400 mm. The Read more…
This wheelbarrow was designed (if you can call it that—the process of thinking through the design and estimating dimensions) and built in a few hours after my brother and I received a message from our father in the village asking us to help him build an access road to the house. It was clear that Read more…
