THE LAUNCH OF THE MARCHES!

RUN — THROW!Throwing model-polyopia su-24. The model is designed and manufactured in the laboratory aeromodelling Center for children and youth technical creativity of the city of Rybinsk for novice modelers. The prototype has become a modern supersonic bomber with variable geometry (sweep) of the wing su-24, standing in service with the Russian air force. The launch of such models always generate interest among club members, and spectators. And thanks to the simplicity of manufacturing the model of this jet was a great success at the country children’s centres.

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COMPACT AND MOBILE

Small beam circular sawBalance small circular saw. After pruning trees in the garden goes into the waste a significant amount of branches of various thickness. Usually they go on the stove. Small branches are easily chopped with an axe, and the larger cut. Hand sawing — it is quite time consuming. To ease the gardening chores, I made a portable circular power saw. Quite light and compact. In addition, it balance, but more on that below.

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THE CAR ON THE LINE

Ford-T with a body Ford T – the first mass car. To do one car per month at the beginning of the XX century -a difficult task for teams of skilled mechanics and engineers, but doable. It is realistic to collect in the same time a dozen machines in the presence of a specialized Assembly stocks, uninterrupted supply for the posts of parts and team of trained pickers. However, even thousands of workers using the most modern for that time equipment would not be able to produce tens of thousands of cars per month.

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CORN-CRUSHER… WASHING MACHINE

CORN FROM... WASHING MACHINEOld, seemingly obsolete washing machine— a treasure for zealous owner who loves to make things with their hands. Available it be convenient stainless capacity, small motor AVE-071-4CM (220 V, 180 W, 1350 rpm), ballasts, enough compact body and lots of parts that still can be use. For example, for the solution of many problems of mechanization from the processing of gifts to the garden for fruit juices and vitamin-nutrient mixture to miracle mills with high productivity. Propaganda is the most interesting of these developments, and a lot of attention and my favorite is “modelist-Konstruktor” (see № 12’92, 8’99, 5’2001).

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SNOWMOBILE WITH THE COMFORT OF A CAR

SNOWMOBILE WITH THE COMFORT OF A CARSnowmobile has always been one of the most popular homemade vehicles. The reason is the relative ease of fabrication (the snowmobile has no wheels, complex transmission, hydraulic brakes, clutch, etc.) and efficiency (the larger can on a high speed pass there, where it can crawl except crawler tractors). However, the relative simplicity of design of the vehicle with aerodynamic propulsion introduced many homebrew tempted to create a primitive machine. As a result, these sleds though and could move, but the pleasure of driving the Creator never got them. And most often it was of poor aerodynamic configuration.

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CAROUSEL FOR SPICES

CAROUSEL SPICEHave exemplary housewife always stock a variety of spices, designed for cooking tasty, delicious dishes — be it first, second, rolls, or dessert. And, of course, well, if all this is not necessary to look for cabinets and shelves, and have, that is, always at hand. This will help simple, but very convenient rack-spinner, proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Earmaster”. It is easy to make your own, the benefit of the construction and materials available any DIY.

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THE THERMOSTAT-THE CELLAR

THERMOSTAT-CELLARFive years ago one of my friends purchased a garage with a cellar and worried about how and what to do to potatoes and other vegetables, planted for winter storage in the cellar, didn’t freeze? Remember, rescued his once-popular thermostat through a balanced bridge with the two thermistors. And recently another friend of mine, being in the same life situation, asked me to help him in the manufacture of such devices.

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THE LEADER OF “BAKU”

LEADER 14 Oct 1942. Just beginning to dawn. Wet snow, bands of fog over the sea hanging heavy clouds. But even the usual Arctic weather does not disturb the festive atmosphere. Destroyer “Gremyashchy” under the flag of the commander of the Northern fleet, Vice Admiral A. G. Golovko meets the leader of “Baku” and the destroyers “Reasonable” and “Furious”. On “Rumbling”, having noticed the approaching ships, raise the alarm: “Congratulations on a successful end of the campaign”.

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