The need for a cargo trailer arises from time to time when you have to haul a load that does not fit in the car cabin or that soils the interior over a long distance. Road haulage services are very expensive, and the prices of ready-made industrial trailers are simply sky-high. After buying a new Read more…
It seems that the idea of using an umbrella as a sail has occurred to everyone who has ever opened one in a strong wind. However, the first person whose attempt to use an umbrella instead of a sail was recorded at the time in the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” was Georgy Arbuzov, one of the pioneers Read more…
The idea to make the drill offered to readers came to me in the following everyday situation: after moving into a homestead house, I did not manage to run a water supply from the well before winter began. Digging a trench that was not long (about 5 m) but rather deep (about 2 m) in Read more…
The development of agriculture depends not only on the work of professionals, but also on the initiative of those who from childhood are fond of technology and experiments. Schoolchildren can also contribute to this cause: growing new crops on training plots, designing agricultural tools, and creating compact mechanized devices that make work on the land Read more…
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…
