TRAILER CYCLISTS

Trailer cyclistsOn a conventional two-wheeled Bicycle much gear not to take, even if it is equipped with a trunk. Meanwhile, the need from owners of these machines frequently. It is therefore advisable to make to the bike trailer.On the construction of such a two-wheeled trailer said Zbigniew Hyun-nel and Andrew Fedoruk in the Polish magazine “Mlody TECHNIK”, article from which prepared this publication.

 

 

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THE FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRYThe Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.

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THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

The snowmobile, which, the story goes, collected the tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamenka. This is not surprising. Equipment guy is fond of since childhood – for eight years, he has been in the CCC (children’s creativity Center) to the circle of “Small appliances”. In a compilation of drawings and design layout and transmission schemes of machine assisted group leader Viktor Aleksandrovich Kurbatov. Responsible welding works helped to run his father – Boris Andreevich. Everything else until the processing of parts on machine tools, has fulfilled himself. In total, Sergei built a snowmobile for about a year, the Assembly took almost four months, from autumn to spring. And until the snow melted, I managed it only to test, “Ispahan” everything drifts around the house. But now revealed some shortcomings, which for the next season is going to be eliminated.

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SCOOTER UNDER THE ROOF

SCOOTER UNDER THE ROOF

Does not make sense to compare a scooter-a scooter and a car — these cars are totally different. However, the designers of motorcycles continuously attempt to give the two-wheeled vehicle in comfort of their four-wheeled counterparts. In recent years, increasingly on the streets of cities, there are lightweight scooters-scooters equipped with a fairing resembling devoid of doors the body of the passenger micro-car, only. This combined transport is not an example of comfortable traditional bike — especially for our country with its climate, abundant spontaneous precipitation “in the form of rain and wet snow.”

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SEMI-AUTOMATIC WELDING

Sure: compact welding machine (ESPA), the merit of which is guaranteed by the protective electronics and the environment carbon dioxide, in any sector will not be superfluous, Especially in the repair of the lining of the machinery or of the vehicle, as well as carrying out permanent joints of thin (for example, aluminum or steel) sheet, when to avoid burn-through area of the heating of the metal should be minimal, but not to the detriment of the quality of the weld.

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“QUICK” BACKUP

Transformiruyushcheesya backup for currant, gooseberry and other bushes are easily made from steel wire with a diameter of 5-8 mm (“rod”) and this type of poles. And with the minimum expenses of forces and time. The posts will be segments of “rod” after their lower ends are pointed and the top is bent in the form of eight. Rings of such a spring eights need to deploy at an angle to each other, put inside a metal or plastic tube, wooden stick — the future of the joists, to allow the rings”Samohval” slightly to straighten. The reliability of the resulting connection is called, guaranteed.

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COUNTRY AND A PRETTY GOOD

COUNTRY. AND QUITE GOOD

The constructor of this truck — Eugene N. Evsikov already familiar to our readers for the publication of “Plows, carries and even sawing” (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 5 for 2002). In the article they talked about made them little tractor. Now we present another one of his car — mini truck.
Evgeniy N. — senior designer with 40 years of experience of the famous helicopter plant. Mil. Designed and built an electric truck is under be the rotary-wing machines — reliable and practical. In addition, it reviewed the simplicity and accuracy that ensured consistency and quality of execution of each node. The first time the photo of the mini-truck was published in the “Model designer” № 6, 2002, under the category “Panorama photos of readers ‘letters”.

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MULTI-PURPOSE ACTIVATORS

MULTI-PURPOSE ACTUATORSAn activated by an electric current of water appear special properties: such moisture has a significant influence on the course of redox processes in animate and inanimate nature. Using the activated water, the enthusiasts achieve success in a wide range of areas from production to consumer (publications on obtaining “live” and “dead” water, see the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” № 12’83, 3’87, 3’96, 12’2000). Today’s collection is about the activators that can be done in a home workshop, based on the materials of the popular Bulgarian weekly “Guide yourself.”

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CULTIVATOR ELECTRIC

CULTIVATOR ELECTRICThe owners of the garden plots are very popular cultivators “the Mole” with petrol engines. At first I was extremely happy with his mechanical assistant. However, over time, decided to get rid of the noise and noxious exhaust of a gasoline engine and make environmentally friendly electrochlorinator, safe from shock. For the cultivator required a motor with a serial excitation, which increases as the load increases and the torque. More other ideal starter stamps ST-8 from the truck GAZ-51.

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THE PATCH OF THE TIRES…

BED OF... TIRESI read in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 6, 1993 article “Vitamins grow on the balcony.” From her I learned about the use of pyramids of old tires as a vertical garden. Intrigued by the experience of enthusiasts, I decided to also do balcony gardening. And came to the conclusion that instead of natural soil in bulky tegmental pyramids it is better to use hydroponics in a separate biomodule.

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