GARDEN CART – FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE

GARDEN CART - FROM PAST TO FUTUREOver thirty years ago fate would have it, so I went into the house of Fyodor Nikitovich, Kuhtenko. This man’s life was not easy. The dispossession of the family of the parents in the period of collectivization, war, captivity, escape, the Soviet camp, the work of a master in a munitions factory, once again the repression and return in the defense industry. In short, learn it once, and the birthplace of required full-time commitment. Helped natural diligence and, most importantly, the talent of the master on all hands.

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SCREED: ANGULAR OR HELICAL?

BUCKLE: ANGLED OR HELICAL?Modern furniture – cabinets, tables, shelving made from chipboard or fibreboard, plywood, wooden boards, etc. however, many traditional corner joints (tenon-eye, vpoldereva on the dowels, keyways and others) are not only very time consuming, but sometimes their use is simply impossible. In addition, all these compounds the monolith that it is often very impractical for transport and even moving furniture.

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REPAIR DRILL

DRILL REPAIRSometimes even reliable drill goes down. Statistics show that failures occur not so much in its mechanical, how many electrical parts. But if tips on restoration of cable, replacement of worn brushes, bad switch or the elimination of other simple malfunctions of home appliances posted a lot, including in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see for example, № 9’95,6’96,2’97), what about more complex kinds of repair are not. In particular, there is a clear lack of material about the peculiarities of maintenance and feasible (in terms of home Studio) fixation of the rotor manifold of the engine, usually installed in the drills, wrenches and other manual tools.

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A rat TRAP

Rat-TRAPThe extermination of rats is usually done by three methods: biological, chemical and mechanical. The most common and effective among them is chemical. Sanitary-epidemiological station (SES) conducts it successfully, with cereals, poisoned. But there is a problem: a long smell of the deceased out of reach of the rodent. And in a private house or in the country not to avoid. If neither the dog nor the cat can’t protect you from the rat visits (and maybe no way to keep these friends of the person) – then try a mechanical method of destruction, having made the proposed rat trap.

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SEPTUM TO MOVE? EASY!

THE PARTITION TO MOVE? EASY!Many Housewives often want to change the layout of his apartment. Now building new buildings to fulfill this desire is quite real: the architects of advance lay in their projects the possibility of alterations at the discretion of the beneficiaries. However, it is not difficult to do in older homes, as in most of them the internal partitions are not load-bearing and light from a thin-walled panel or gypsum blocks. To perform such work is not difficult – more difficult to get them accepted in the relevant regional interdepartmental or architectural organizations. Their expert Committee should confirm that your dream, for example, to go from the kitchen to the dining room, not through the corridor, and after you have done separating them, the wall of the arch will not violate the requirements of applicable building, sanitary and technical and operational regulations for residential buildings.

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“FORWARD, TO MARS!..”

This slogan was the basis of the life and work of one of the founders of Russian space engineer Friedrich Arturovich Tsander, who developed the 20-ies of the last century one of the first projects of the spacecraft for flight to Mars. However, he was not only a dreamer — in the early 30-ies took an active part in the development of the first domestic liquid-propellant rocket engines and rockets in the famous gird.

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MOTOR BOAT “MIRAGE”

MOTOR BOAT At the time I had a chance to build and test many motor boats. The first water I came off the boat “star”, the drawings of which were published in the October issue of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” for 1966. It is known that the village of homebrew not spoiled by the wide range of structural materials. What was required for the construction of the “Stars” for a long time was not. Had to make do with what was in the moment at hand, namely, a steel sheet with a thickness of 1.8 mm. Naturally, the power set of metal profiles and strips of different cross sections, coupled with sigouney paneling gave the boat a pretty solid mass.

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IN THE AIR — “TRAIN”

IN THE AIR Specialized in aeromodelling magazines increasingly published articles about the model aircraft with electric. Today betrothe quite successfully fly and kordovye, and Svobodnaya, and RC models. The reasons are many, and one of the main can rightly be considered the appearance on the market of light and powerful power sources and motors, a compact and lightweight remote control equipment.

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GAZ-AA GAZ-MM

GAZ-AAGAZ-AA: FROM THE TRUCK TO THE BUS. A family of GAZ-AA GAZ-MM. The need for mass polutoratonny car originated in the Soviet Union in the late 1920-ies in the country to build new factories, canals, roads and power plants, and exercise is no simple, reliable and repairable cars was simply unthinkable. The construction site of the automobile giant was chosen Nizhniy Novgorod, has qualified personnel, well-developed transport network, and powerful Metalworking industry.

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GOLD

GOLD

Every day we use a huge amount of things and have almost ceased to notice them. But it turns out in the production of minor things at first glance hides a lot of interesting and informative. Entertainment “Conveyor MK” reveals the secrets of making the most ordinary things at first glance. Today’s program: GOLD.

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