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DIY Radio-Controlled Sailboat Model: Complete Build

A radio-controlled model of a racing sailboat yacht can be made from the most accessible materials. And instead of expensive branded equipment, you can use a remote control set that comes with modern toys. The model’s hull is made of packaging foam or PS-4-40 grade, reinforced with a flat wooden frame cut into the hull Read more…

HERO TRAILER

HERO TRAILER

Many builders — future homeowners or summer residents — have to solve the issue of transporting local building materials over short distances, such as soil, sand, stone. Some owners, having their own transport equipment (car, tractor, or even a walk-behind tractor), buy a trailer for it. However, the price of an industrial trailer is such Read more…

D-6 WITH FAN

D-6 WITH FAN

This three-wheeled motorized cart was created for garden and household purposes; it is convenient for transporting bags, tools, and other small loads. The engine here is a conventional bicycle motor D-6, quite widely used in garden and vegetable garden associations for driving tillers, cultivators, pumps, and mowers. However, its design is intended for cooling from Read more…

TRICYCLE PNEUMO VEHICLE

TRICYCLE PNEUMO VEHICLE

For more than ten years I have been designing and building all-terrain vehicles. Over these years I have gained some experience, but I constantly turn to new publications in “Modelist-Konstruktor”: what if someone, having come up with something original, did better? The prototype of the proposed tricycle was a machine I made based on an Read more…

Winter steed

DIY Snow Scooter: Extreme Single-Runner Winter Sled

Old people humorously recall fun rides down snowy slopes on primitive sleds — bowl-shaped rounds made from frozen wet hay in old sieves. Or noisy descents “in a small heap” on ordinary sleds, from which the shafts had been removed beforehand… And today, commerce offers a wide selection of various sleds for this — both Read more…

Motorcycle in the trunk

General view of the micro-motorcycle

Before starting to build the micromotorcycle, I spent a long time drawing various layout options, trying to anticipate on paper all possible errors and miscalculations that could arise during the work. Looking ahead, it should be noted that development on paper is one thing, and manufacturing is quite another. Many “rough spots” appeared even during Read more…

FOLDING POWER TILLER

FOLDING POWER TILLER

When creating mechanical weeders, walk-behind tractors, and other small-scale mechanization equipment, DIY enthusiasts face a whole range of problems: from working out the kinematics (reliability, compactness, originality of technical solutions), acquiring components and parts for the intended machine (an inexpensive engine, for example), to assembling and debugging the entire structure. The material published below tells Read more…

MOTOR CART

MOTOR CART

In a homestead or dacha farm, even a small one, any mechanized cargo vehicle is a great help. It saves both time and effort. Of course, when it’s simple and reliable. It’s desirable that the machine be small in size for maneuverability and have sufficient power (even at the expense of speed). Its cross-country ability Read more…