Readers of our magazine are already familiar with the best examples of technical creativity by S.P. KOROVIN, a designer from Kumertau (Bashkortostan). In “Photo Panorama” (see “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 1’2000), his most famous designs were presented: the “Visit” aircraft, a children’s car, the seven-seat “Orbita-1500” car, and a jet ski (personal watercraft). Later, readers appreciated another Read more…
How far can a person travel by pushing off the ground just once? If it is one step — on average less than a metre. If you build up speed and push harder, you can jump about four or five metres. So imagine our surprise when a modest, no longer young man walked into the Read more…
This name was given to a micromotorcycle built on the basis of a children’s scooter. The authors of the “Moth” are Zhenya Gavrilov, Sasha Golev, Seryozha Golubenkov, and the head of the micromobility club Boris Pavlovich Chernov. The club operates at the Young Technicians Club in the Moscow-region town of Pavlovsky Posad. The “Moth” was Read more…
How a snowmobile (motornart) differs from a motorcycle is clear to anyone familiar with these vehicles: mainly, the former is tracked and intended for travel on snow, while the latter is wheeled and for ground travel. In terms of comfort they are alike — both are open, although motorcycles are used mostly in warm weather Read more…
The bottom bracket of a road bicycle — and indeed of any other bicycle — is probably its most heavily loaded mechanism. Therefore, in bottom brackets with external tapered bearings, bearing cages often fail under heavy overloads, and the ball races on the cones of the bottom bracket spindle are frequently damaged as well. Intensive Read more…
In recent decades, the world has been experiencing a bicycle boom. Today, the bicycle is the number one means of transport on the planet, and even the car yields the palm: for every four-wheeled vehicle, there are two two-wheeled ones. A bicycle does not pollute the atmosphere and improves health. The author, formerly an avid Read more…
To refuel a car tank in field conditions — for example, from a barrel or another vehicle’s tank — drivers often use a simple hose and the so-called “suction method,” creating a vacuum by mouth, which risks getting some gasoline into it. You can avoid trouble if you make a simple mini-pump. To do this, Read more…
With ingenuity and hard work — and contrary to the well-known saying — even a discarded pipe can turn into quite a good piece of gardening equipment. And with minimal manufacturing costs. The published material by Candidate of Agricultural Sciences S. Larkin confirms this. “THE BLADED TOOL” I took up gardening seriously about 6 years Read more…
In “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine No. 11’1991 I came across a description of motonarty — a tracked snowmobile built by the Matveychuk brothers from Zavodoukovsk, Tyumen Oblast, and named by them “Mysl-2” (“Thought-2”). I liked the machine. For me, a rural resident, it looked like an indispensable means of transport in winter, and as a home builder Read more…
This mini tractor was built by Y.V. Polyabin, a self-taught designer, from whatever he could find in his own garage, from acquaintances, and at a scrap yard. Nevertheless, “Krokha” (as he named his mini tractor) holds a privileged place in the craftsman’s spacious garage. Even though a “Kuzya” jeep and a “Kolibri” mini-car stand next Read more…
