SHIELD FROM LIGHTNING

Building a country house, we try to protect it from the damaging effects of fire: use heat-resistant materials, buy fire extinguishers, installed fire alarm. But the protection from lightning often forget.

One of the possible reasons for the neglect of our countrymen to this question is that building regulations do not consider mandatory lightning protection of buildings with a height less than 30 m. in addition, many people used to hope for the best convincing myself that the likelihood of an electrical discharge in their vacation home is almost zero.

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HOME BATH

HOME BATHThrifty when the owner erected a cottage or manor house, then after (and maybe during) a desire to build bath. It happened to me. First of all analysed the options for baths, which I had to bathe or just to see them. Remembered what I liked and what not. And read all the available literature on the subject. Whatever you say, and the main “bath” is a furnace, so the “dance” started for her — decided on its design and location in the bath. With the wall material of the questions was not clearly wood: a log or lumber, and of such thickness that could make bathing even in winter when they are particularly pleasant and helpful.

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Your story

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THE CAR IS ON AUTOPILOT (CHINA)

THE CAR ON AUTOPILOT (CHINA)The experiment conducted a month ago demonstrated the effectiveness of an Autonomous vehicle created by celestial craftsmen.

Until Google perfects the ways of control of vehicle without human intervention and lobbying for the legalization of such transportation, in China, too for nothing do not lose time. Engineers from the National University of defense technology, along with the automaker First Auto Works robocuprescue sedan Hongqi Q3.

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LINOLEUM AND MYTHS ABOUT HIM

LINOLEUM AND MIFI ON ITOne of the oldest and most common flooring in our country — the linoleum. Over time, this popular material have changed and improved, but in the memory of buyers are still alive old stereotypes. They often give rise to myths which we will try to debunk.

Myth 1. Linoleum is not a safe materials

It should be noted that the original linoleum was a completely natural material made from flax, oil and resin. Modern flooring materials are mainly produced from synthetic polymer — polyvinyl chloride (PVC). In Europe and the USA they are called not linoleum and PVC coatings. In Russia, however, prefer to use the old name.

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SECURITY ALARM

SECURITY ALARMThis is a safety alarm device (SLD) is designed to automatically alarm (electrozone) in the case of penetration of unauthorized persons in the protected object — an apartment, dacha, garage. It is more immunity and no false positives. The unit is powered by 12-volt battery GB1 of the eight cells that consume standby current less than 5 mA.

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WOOD ENGINEERING

WOOD ENGINEERINGSay, in the Urals during the difficult years of chaos after the civil war an artificer built a car where everything was wooden, even the engine. However, if the wizard so the echo legendary as Leskov’s Levsha, here the use of wood instead of metal in the most important nodes in modern machinery: rolling mills, tractors, cranes, harvesters — not a legend, but a reality of our days.

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SHOULDER TIE

In the closet or the wardrobe of any design there are shelves or brackets, hangers for placement and headwear, and outerwear, and shirts. But ties — no special device, except that the cord or the wire cross member on the door, designed in General more for belts. Between there’s the usual wooden hangers are easy Read more…

CORD PROTECTION

Cord electric soldering iron is typically not heat-resistant insulation. Therefore at its hit on a hot tip, perhaps a quick melt insulation and short circuit of wires. To avoid this, it is necessary to wear a cord round the required number of ceramic insulators that are used in the irons and frying cabinets. Plug contemporary Read more…