“HALF-TRACK” SNOWMOBILE GMV-2

The construction of any improvised apparatus – be it a car, a snowmobile or even a plane always starts with a dream. Dreams of a person capable and motivated. Despite popular opinion that handmade are built from lack of money, the real motive is creative grain and desire of expression. In addition, active people are annoyed by the fact that in our country carelessly throw away and destroy still usable machines and equipment. Why not give them a second life?

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RELIABLE HEAD PROTECTION

RELIABLE PROTECTION OF THE HEADThe human neck is very perfect mechanism that performs many vital functions. However, it is very compact, flexible and surprisingly agile. All this allows to consider it one of the most wonderful inventions of Nature. The only thing that the neck is not calculated, so it is in opposition to those forces which man puts his own head knowingly. The musculoskeletal system of the neck, for example, does not tolerate sharp linear motion and rotational motion of the skull that occurs when different kinds of shocks and blows, especially in the chin or neck. Such effects usually lead to a concussion or intracranial injury.

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SKI PLUS PNEUMATIC

SKI PLUS PNEUMATIC

Whatever was taken by Amateur designers, and the best suspension length snegokatov than repeatedly tested combination “ski plus pneumatic”, not yet invented. In this opinion I was confirmed after I built and tested three version snegokatov own design. First came a car with two skis in front and one wheel (the camera from Oise) at the rear. It was good in its own right, as could easily enter at any gate, towing a small sled, and take the track left by “Buran”.
 

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YOUNGER BROTHER “OF VLADIMIR”

YOUNGER BROTHER Mini-tractor must admit, I’ve built without any drawings (except the sketches of parts that he had ordered Turner), so to speak, to the eye, intuitive, having all components and assemblies as compact as possible and easier for the tractor. Then, the accumulation of operating experience, many times altered it. But more on that below. Built because I needed a mechanical servant, able to perform almost all the agricultural work on the plot. Such “abilities”, in my opinion, has tractor T-25 vladimirets. He was the inspiration when building my mini. Hence the nickname — “little brother.”

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STEP INTO A NEW CLASS

STEP INTO A NEW CLASSFor the last four years on the initiative of the heads of model aircraft clubs in the town of Zheleznodorozhny in the Moscow region competitions school students in the new class of resinator indoors. If you compare these models with others, participating in competitions, for example, a glider and a helicopter “Fly”, the proposed resonatory more complex. Therefore, it can be recommended for the manufacture of the guys visiting the club for the second year.

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“USACOM” AND HYDRAULICS

While still a student of the 3rd class of high school (20 years ago) persuaded the parents to issue an annual subscription to “modelist-Konstruktor”. Since then, and are a regular reader, cherish all the sent mail rooms favorite edition. The desire to build their own mini-tractor (MT) caught fire when in No. 12 of the journal in 1978 read the article about “Lukovichki”.

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WATERING MACHINE

WATERING MACHINE

If your summer cottage has a garden and a vegetable garden, you-lay-nilly get to him in slavery if not for life, that the whole of spring-not-summer-autumn season. Landing require loosening, weeding, vaccination, feeding, watering… in short, every Friday gardener hurries on its six acres. A particularly hot summer, watering once a week will not do: the sun quickly dries the water leaving the green friends without life-giving water.

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