CLOWN RUNNER

CLOWN-RUNNERAmong the “walking” toys that kids love to haul on the rope or to push in front of him, the most attractive dynamic: if any item jumping, waving, jumping or rotated. These qualities, it meets the proposed trolley “Clown”: a funny stick figure moves in front of a kid, funny her feet in high boots, glimpsed under bulky suitcases.

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SHELF-WIRE

SHELF-WIREGlass shelf very well with the mirror. But to mount glass on glass is not so easy. So usually shelf clips different ways under the mirror on the wall. However the design is not the same. Also have to mess up the wall, and this is particularly undesirable if it is tiled.

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WELDING YOUR

WELDING - ITSAlmost a quarter of a century are a subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. About the same age are engaged in electric welding apparatus (ESA). Convinced that the most appropriate mass and power “svarochnik” – with a toroidal magnetic core (for example, from a burnt-out electric motor power 3-5 kW). Manufacturing technology of such devices has been maintained in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see, in particular, publication in № 8’92, 11’92, 3’94, 9’94, 1 ’96, 3’96, 8’97, 11’99). From my own experience and practice of other handmade designers, I also believe it is appropriate to emphasize that the idle current from sturdy welding transformer designed for connection to a household 220-volt network should be of the order of 0.5-1 A. If a smaller value of this parameter decreases the power at most – heated magnetic core, and with it the whole of ESA.

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SIMPLE, EASY, FISHNET

SIMPLE, EASY, FISHNETThe trailer is made in the club “Tourism, and pedal cars”, which I ran for several years. Used in construction sites and technical solutions repeatedly tried and tested in our velomobiles. So the trailer turned out immediately — didn’t even have it, as they say, to bring — and completely met our expectations. To date built five of these trailers, and they all showed a high operational reliability.

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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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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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