TRACTOR KIROVETS-700A

TRACTOR KIROVETS-700AFarm tractor Kirovets K-700A. Scale model 1:32.

The purpose tractors – agricultural works with mounted, semi-mounted and trailed machines and transport, some excavation and reclamation work in agriculture.

July 13, 1962 from the Assembly shop of the Kirov factory has released the first tractor K – 700 “Kirovets”. Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, the plant was not randomly selected for the development and production of the most powerful and today the farm tractor. The oldest Russian enterprise in 1924 was able to start production of tractors “Fordson-Putilovets”.

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THE TRICK

IN THE BAGYou still keep fur hats, wigs and hats on the shelf of the Cabinet? Meanwhile, the creators of these hats is strongly recommended to keep them worn on special mannequins — thus things do not crumple and keep the form longer.
The easiest and quite functional dummy is obtained from a five-liter plastic bottles from under drinking water — you only need to fasten a screw threaded cap from the bottle on a wooden stand, and then screw the neck of the bottle into the cover.

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LEAVEN IN THE BOTTLE

LEAVEN IN A BOTTLEYou have a problem — not what is sour cabbage and salted cucumbers? In fact, the coming fall always provokes a deficit of three-liter cans. Well, in my family, this problem does not exist here already for a few years we use for this purpose plastic bottles from under drinking water with a capacity of five and ten litres. Of course, they have a small mouth, and shove it through the cabbage or cucumbers difficult, but that’s no reason to abandon such a capacious tanks. As it turned out, to provide them with cover is not too difficult.

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BREAD

BREADA Millennium technique and technology of production of bread remained virtually unchanged. Heavy manual labor of the bakers of Ancient Rome almost did not differ from toil bakers tsarist Russia in the twentieth century. And only in the twenties, when our country was created by the baking industry, to replace the ancient bakeries come highly mechanized enterprise. If the “Tsar’s Palace bread” in the Kremlin under Boris Godunov was baked the day 5 tons of bread and fed 5 thousand people, built in Soviet times, the bakery produces daily 300 – 500 tons of bread. Each factory and today provides bread to a million people.

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“DISAPPEARING” STAIRS

A lot of trouble delivers the design of internal stairs, for example, the attic. For convenient large marches, as a rule, not enough space and they are very steep, which is dangerous, especially for older people.
In one of the rooms of the old Czechoslovak magazine offered a curious compromise that we present to our readers. Down, this design resembles a regular staircase, with steps which are quite comfortable to climb. Folded as it rises and does not occupy much space, face the horizontal “door” leading to the attic. The whole design operates the motor, turn on the bottom button.

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MAIN BATTLE TANK “ABRAMS”

MAIN BATTLE TANK Large-scale work on designing a new main battle tank began in the USA after the termination in 1970 of the joint with Germany development of a promising tank МВТ70. In February 1972, the United States was formed the operative group, composed of military and representatives of the companies-developers. Their task was the formulation of a concept of the future tank ХМ1. The result of the work of this group was “Requirements for the material,” published in August 1972. A new tank was developed on a competitive basis. To participate in the competition, the Pentagon chose two companies: Chrysler and “GM”. 18 July 1974 was signed with them the contract to develop and manufacture prototypes of a new tank. Under the terms of the contract, prototypes were to be presented for testing by early 1976.

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