MODEL CONSTRUCTION

“PIPER”: A CONTOUR COPY

25.05.201813.05.2018World of models

Competitions of different rank showed that as prototypes for the manufacture of contour models are used only a dozen types of aircraft. And to participate our aeromodelling circle in the next competition, it was decided to make a model rare prototype. Our choice fell on PIPER CAB, one of the most successful light aircraft, produced in mass quantities since the pre-war (1935).

ADHESIVES FOR PLASTICS

25.05.201813.05.2018Own hands

Almost accidentally I “turned” the glue that sticks together good parts from plastics, for example polystyrene. To obtain the necessary glue small pieces of plastic or polystyrene to fill in a container made of glass, fill with solvent No. 646. Occasionally the contents must be mixed to obtain a flowable creamy mass.

SCREW FROM THE NAIL

25.05.201813.05.2018Good recommendations

If it took a long screw thread M2—M6, and they are not (by the way, is not easy to find and sold out), it is easy to produce such a nail of suitable diameter, cut into the rod thread and propilov in the hat slot. I. GLUKHOV, Saransk, Mordovia

BUILDING A CHOPPER

25.05.201813.05.2018Design

I am a regular reader and admirer of “Modeller-designer”, In turn, would like to offer the subscribers of the magazine the story of how I built a chopper.

Amateur “copperstone” gained strength of seven or eight years ago and still maintains its position. But if you had fans designed choppers are mainly based on a heavy “Ural” and “Dnepr”, the last time these original cars appear on the ground, even for light motorcycles.

THE SECOND PROFESSION OF AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH

25.05.201813.05.2018Devices helpers

In the process of creating Amateur designs may require tools and equipment that are available it is often difficult. In such cases, comes to the aid of ingenuity, and craftsmen are doing everything they can with their hands. We will talk about how you can make a real recorder-thermoregulator from the old electrocardiograph type ЭК1Т-03M (Fig. 1).

A SCREEN IN THE INTERIOR

25.05.201813.05.2018Own hands

With the improvement of living conditions, there is a desire to aesthetically design the interior. And it’s not necessary to purchase expensive Western type — the problem can be solved and a more modest decorative techniques, equally effective even in the presence of the usual furniture.

For example, with… screen. Usually it is simply used as a lightweight foldable otvorotka, in connection with which it folds, as a rule, are opaque panelwe with the use of tissue or other related materials.

“The ROCKETEER” TO the Max

25.05.201813.05.2018News

Of the ten qualified International aerospace salons in the last four involved young technology of Russia Avia – and rocket-modelers. If the first one it was the winners of all-Russian competition “Space”, which was conducted by VAKO “Soyuz” (the President – the pilot-cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Serebrov), then later -was attended by the winners of the Moscow open competition “From the screw”.

Music game world

25.05.201813.05.2018Devices helpers

Deserved recognition and popularity enjoyed by amateur radio operators is quite simple and reliable circuit includes flip-flop on the two transistors and a pair of thyristors controlled them. It allows you to alternately switch the four incandescent lamps or garlands for the effect of “running lights”.

HOW TO REPAIR AIR CONDITIONER?

25.05.201813.05.2018Our workshop

Mobile air conditioning RS-09 warm air was purchased in mid 2009 the Company Air Sonic has set the official warranty period for its products to 12 months, subject to the rules of operation. After 14 months in the conditioning, something clicked and it stopped working. Submerging the conditioning on a hand truck and brought it to a shop rembyttekhnika. Master inspected the air conditioning and said that the repair will take a long time because the foreign-made product, and the shop receives spare parts order only. The question of how much it will cost to repair, the master called the sum. After hearing the amount for the repairs, decided not to restore the air conditioning in the Studio, “rembyttekhnika”.

MULTIMETER MOTORIST

25.05.201813.05.2018Devices helpers

Owners of digital multimeters offer to acquire a homemade console that will allow you to convert the popular M-830 M-832 and their counterparts in the universal devices, capable to become a reliable assistant and service vehicles. In particular, it will be possible (along with the already mastered many of the health check of the relay-regulator, a current measurement battery power and other electrical parameters on-Board network) to quickly estimate the important performance of the ignition system carburetor of the engine, as the crankshaft rotation and angle, open (easily converted into a corner closed) status breaker contacts.