Of course, thyristor power switches in household appliances is very compact and convenient, but… КУ201, КУ202 and familiar to all cheap copies, unfortunately, tend unjustly to fail. Failsafe only thyristors for industrial use (TL), but they are quite expensive and overall. Besides working, for example, an electric heater thyristor (triac-like) inclusion creates in radios and tape recorders unpleasant 100-Hertz background. So sometimes you have to go back to the old, but tried and tested method on a powerful load through the contacts of electromagnetic relays.
CHRYSLER CROSSFIRE
Create a car “based” machines of past LVT becomes a good tone at the acquisition of the production programmes of almost every well-known car company. On the roads of the world has already run the new “bugs” of the company Volkswagen in showrooms sell like hotcakes-the-art “mini” by BMW, and the firm not long ago, Chrysler surprised the consumers with its vintage car CHRYSLER RT CRUISER, made in the style of 30-ies of XX century. And here is another car company Chrysler, the design of which recalls the days of American prohibition.
CAR FROM THE SHAR’I


HUNTER KAMIKAZE
Carrier-based fighter Goodyear F2G SUPER CORSAIR. In early 1943, Japan had already lost the initiative in the war in the Pacific. One reason for this was the lack of combat aircraft and trained pilots To counter the growing military power of the US Navy, the Japanese organized a network of specialized air units with pilots and suicide bombers that are combat aircraft carried out the ramming attack American ships. Later these pilots were called kamikaze (translated from the Japanese — the wind of the gods) — by name “Kamikaze Tokubetsu kogekitai” that was worn by one of these groups.
THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE?
“Small, but perfectly formed!” — called our article about microvesicle (“M-K”, 1974, No. 5). And the mail brings descriptions of all new designs, such as this one built by father and son Surovymi from Leningrad. The frame is welded from nodes a scooter; the front fork is reinforced with the same purpose, replaced the spokes Read more…
THE WINNING STARTS!
Thousands of children are engaged in the sections of sports clubs DOSAAF, creating and testing a variety of model-copy, high-speed kordovye, RC — in accordance with his inclination. Miller southern machine-building plant Oleg Shcherbakov drew time model, And that’s the first good results of the “specialization” of the athlete-modelers Dnipropetrovsk aviasportkluba DOSAAF: he has the Read more…
POLIHALE?
Otherwise, I think, and not be called a “spectrum” of Ryazan Hobbies of our reader Valery Helstein: model aircraft, radio, cynolebias, speed boat (master of sports, the third place on superiority of RSFSR), picture… Designed a copying machine for Amateur films, a motor for cord advanced “telephoto” to the camera “Krasnogorsk”, automatic slide projector. And Read more…
WOODEN SLED
Why not just get on the forest in the Arkhangelsk region wood! Prefer and lecturer in the school of the village Lamorna Oleg Dmitrievich Cheese. Teaching children the skills of working with wood, he became interested in the design of this fertile material. Active helpers his pupils 7— 8 classes. Improved carpenter’s bench, made by Read more…
OFF-ROAD THE FIRSTBORN
Luxury SUV VOLVO XC90. In a model program of world famous Swedish company had everything with the exception of this jeep SUV. Meanwhile, the marketing policy it is strongly demanded to fill gaping holes in a number of the most reliable and safest cars, which are car brand VOLVO. And this appeared: in 2002, the firm has represented buyers their first real SUV VOLVO XC90. He immediately became a kind of a dream of the perfect vehicle with a spacious seven-seater body, powerful turbo engine, permanent all-wheel drive and with all possible systems and security…
FLYING UNDER THE ROOF
