When people want to emphasize that someone has done a great deal of work, searching for a fitting comparison, they involuntarily turn to the hard labor of digging the earth and say: “They’ve shoveled so much!” Then everything becomes clear at once, and memories of stubborn soil, an aching back, and blisters on the hands Read more…
What is the mini-tractor “Muravey” like? What lies behind its pleasing, eye-catching forms? Indeed, the kinematics here fit the designer’s concept perfectly. The engine is a single-cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled unit rated at 14 hp. It was taken from the Tula-200 motor scooter. The clutch is multi-disc, running in an oil bath. The tractor is fitted Read more…
All work on a homestead or summer cottage plot is a combination of construction, transport, and purely agricultural tasks. And if, to make the latter easier, you can buy various small-mechanization tools — from a motor cultivator to a mini-tractor — then for all other work, only a trailer for a passenger car, a cart Read more…
No sooner do rivers and lakes clear of ice than thousands upon thousands of water-tourism enthusiasts begin preparing for the new season. They take their “folders” and “inflatables” out of storerooms and garages, and bring yachts and boats out of winter storage. Those who live near the water or have a car at their disposal Read more…
For a long time, the designers of mini-cars could not decide in what position the racer should pass the course. There were even cars of the “bed” type: their advantages were a low center of gravity and low resistance to oncoming air flows. A mini-car with a simplified sample of steering control: the racer turned Read more…
As soon as the bright spring sun drives the snow off the icy shell that has locked rivers, reservoirs, and lakes in place, colorful sails appear on natural ice courses. These are ice boats. Any reader can become an ice boater — anyone with metalworking and carpentry skills can build an ice yacht. The ice Read more…
In different regions of our country, the soil is cultivated in different ways. Soil and climate conditions naturally leave their mark on the designs of small-scale mechanization tools developed by owners of household plots. Some build micro-tractors and motor blocks designed for use with a plow; others build motor tillers. Our reader from Sverdlovsk Oblast, Read more…
When repairing and testing the electrical equipment of motoblocks not fitted with a battery, as well as Voskhod-3M motorcycles and mopeds, you have to start the engine each time to power the electrical system. It is troublesome and wastes fuel. Yet there is, in my opinion, a good solution: use the household mains as the Read more…
Interest in homemade mufflers is driven primarily by the unsatisfactory quality of series products. It is quite natural for an amateur designer to want to improve the parameters of their vehicle. Of course, it is practically impossible to significantly increase engine power through a muffler at a given exhaust noise level, but eliminating some shortcomings Read more…
I have subscribed to the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine since 1985 and have never regretted it. I read everything: from the first page to the last. It is a very useful and interesting publication. And although times are hard now and the magazine is not exactly cheap, I will continue to subscribe, because I believe the value Read more…
