Snowmobile technology is finding increasingly wider application today. Industry and amateur craftsmen create the most diverse machine designs, specifically intended for winter operation. But then spring comes, and the powerful “Buran” goes to the garage for storage — waiting for the next season, while its owner switches to another “steed,” most often — a motorcycle. Read more…
Readers of the magazine who became acquainted in issue No. 4’2006 with the tractor trailer by V. Kolyaskin were also interested in the mini-tractor itself by this amateur constructor. Today we publish a description of the manufacturing technology of this tractor and diagrams of its main units. If you have a house in the country, Read more…
In any, even equipped with mini-“Kirovtsy”, “Kubots” and other high-class equipment, individual farm, one probably cannot do without manual agricultural tools. Having passed through the centuries, they, in essence, have changed little. And no matter how technical thought struggled, no matter how design pleased, we still have before us a “carrying container with handles and Read more…
In the late 1980s, the family of light vehicles with mechanical engines (from motorcycles and snowmobiles to ultralight aircraft) was joined by a new type of ultralight aircraft, which received the official (according to FAI classification) name of powered paraglider. However, in colloquial speech it is often called a paramotor (PM), meaning the entire apparatus. Read more…
The purpose of this vessel is fishing with a small trawl and drift nets no more than 20 miles from the port of refuge. Endurance – 12 days. Main dimensions of the boat: maximum length – 12.75 m, length at waterline – 11.7 m, width – 3 m, draft – 1.3 m. Speed reaches 8 Read more…
First of all, I thank the editorial board of “Modelist-Konstruktor” for promoting the ingenuity, intelligence and talent of ordinary people, for providing the opportunity to use their rich creative experience, concentrated in the magazine. Keep it up! For my part, I would like to offer readers a description of a very practical mini-truck. Practical in Read more…
The propulsion system of this snowmobile consists of a rubber-fabric track made from a 300 mm wide conveyor belt and joined into a ring using a hinged loop. On its outer surface, cleats made of duralumin channels are installed, and on the inner surface – brackets that allow the track to be driven by the Read more…
Owners of private houses or dachas often face the need to prepare concrete solutions. Mixing water, gravel, and cement in a certain proportion is not difficult, but very labor-intensive, requiring considerable time and physical effort. And if it is necessary to perform large volumes, the process of preparing concrete or masonry mortar turns into hard Read more…
How could one not help little Katyusha see the fish swimming! During a boat trip with grandfather Viktor on the lake, she kept leaning over the side, trying to see the underwater inhabitants. Grandfather, fearing that his granddaughter might accidentally fall into the water, asked her not to lean over the water anymore. And he Read more…
“Manual labor — to the shoulders of machines!” — under this headline, materials from the All-Union Conference of VISKHOM named after V. P. Goryachkin were published in our magazine (see “M-K”, 1982, No. 8). With the speeches of its participants about the importance and necessity of developing small-scale mechanization means, the editorial board opened a Read more…
