After the 1990s, the flood of all kinds of previously scarce goods onto store shelves by no means cooled the imagination and enthusiasm of DIY makers. Proof of that is the “Russkiy Masterovoy” club, founded in 1992 in Chelyabinsk and uniting proactive and creative craftsmen. Over the years, the club has accumulated considerable experience in Read more…
What ice-fishing enthusiast doesn’t dream of a convenient, lightweight vehicle to get quickly to those prized perch holes? In one of the issues of Modelist-Konstruktor I read about N. Ibragimov’s motor iceboat design and decided to build a similar machine. I fitted an engine and a wheel from a Tourist motor scooter. During tests the Read more…
I want to share my version of making crash bars, which I installed on a Jawa motorcycle and which have been serving reliably for more than a year now. Fellow motorcyclists became interested in their design: they took measurements, the shape, and so on. So I decided to offer them to the magazine’s readers. Many Read more…
Everyone knows how corn and sunflowers grow. But few people can picture what harvesting them looks like. On large areas, of course, combines and other machines are used, while on small ones — say, school or experimental plots — lawn shears are still used to this day. Yet such work is very tiring and, more Read more…
The snowmobile described in this story was built by tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamanka. And that is no surprise. The young man has been keen on machinery since childhood — for eight years he has been attending the CDT (Center for Children’s Creativity) in the “Small-Size Machinery” club. Club leader Viktor Read more…
This simplest incubator can become a reliable helper in any household; it will spare you the annoying spring worries of buying chicks for your farm. The device is as easy to make as it is to operate. The idea for this incubator belongs to “M-K” reader V. Shopin from Belgorod region; the design work was Read more…
There is no doubt: a motor plow or a microtractor on a household plot is a jack-of-all-trades helper. But where the plot is quite small, and trees and shrubs in the garden are planted rather densely, a walk-behind tractor with an internal combustion engine simply has no room to turn around. That is where a Read more…
How much trouble tire demounting and mounting on passenger-car wheels causes for beginners (and not only them)! Bent rims, torn tire beads, tubes bitten by a tire iron, and even injured fingers are frequent companions of this work. That is why many car owners prefer to go to a service station and entrust it to Read more…
Historians claim that the sail appeared on land about four millennia ago! Fantasy? No — there is documentary evidence for it. In 1953, an Italian archaeological expedition excavating the temple of Ptolemy near the town of Medinet Madi discovered the remains of an ancient land sailer. It was designed and built under the direction of Read more…
For a long time I have been using a long-purchased single-axle hand utility cart (unfortunately, information about the manufacturer has not survived). But, as I recall, the cart’s passport listed the following data: load capacity — 25 kg, mass — 6.5 kg. The cart is made, as they say, conscientiously; the design is reliable, it Read more…
