THE LIGHT IN THE WAGON BOX

LIGHT IN A CAR WINDOWMany models of passenger cars produced by well-known manufacturers, equipped with illumination. Usually installed inside a miniature incandescent bulbs or LEDs yellow glow. The energy they receive through a special flexible current collectors which are in contact with metal wheelsets, moving from isolated from each other the rails (about the same as on the models of locomotives).

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SOKOL

“Dear edition! I have been modeling, build kordovye-models, flight a big request To you — please let us know what new model airplane engines went on sale in 1973”. V. Vasiliev. Chita oblast.
 
“Tell us about a new modeling technique…” — write avtomodelisty from the city of Tyumen.
 
Such letters to the editor come very much. Given the requests of our readers in this issue we talk about new engines for modelers.

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MIG-3: THE FLYING CIRCUIT

MIG-3: FLYING A LOOPKordovye contour-models have always been attracted to model airplanes. To create them, unlike the full copies, takes less time, and aircraft modeling experience needed for this not so great. As a prototype for contour models are most often fighters — these machines are spectacular in flight, they are easily recognized not only modelers, but also the audience. Moreover, in the air, the fuselage does not look flat.

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MODEL-THE WINNER

MODEL-WINNERThe constructor of this model class SA Maxim Shekhvatov, a schoolboy from the city of Elektrostal (the Moscow region) and the champion of Russia 2001 in two classes of sports rockets SA and S4A. His model made on the so-called paper technology. Fairing glue on the metal mandrel of the five paper petals. The mandrel before it is heated and smeared with mastic “Edelvays”. After cooling of the postmark on the mandrel is applied to the petals, smeared with white glue, and smooth to prevent wrinkles.

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TRACTOR-TERRAIN VEHICLE

TRACTOR-TERRAIN VEHICLEThis machine is created by a Hadith Shagalievich Shatalin sons from the village Sermenevo. Engine — diesel D-37 electrical equipment — from tractors T-40, axles with wheels from GAZ-66, from him and the frame, but it’s a bit narrowed and strengthened. Bridges shortened and fixed to the frame rigidly. Transmission: clutch basket, gear shift —from ZIL. Steering — the tractor “Belarus”, cabin — tractor T-4, fuel tank — from DT-75.

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HELLO, HYDROCUTTING!

HELLO, HYDROCUTTING!So we said in the editorial, having received an article by our correspondent from Donetsk and came almost simultaneously with the letter of the head of the shipbuilding laboratory of the Donetsk syut Valentine Boikova. Hello, hydrocutting! We were looking forward to reader responses on the first article about hydrocort, publication of which began in this magazine in 1969.

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ROTOR-DIGGER

ROTOR-DIGGERConveyor under the open sky could rightly be called a complex of the most diverse and unusual cars, created in our country in recent years for laying pipelines in any geographical conditions. The novelties of this amazing technology are annually demonstrated at the Exhibition of achievements of national economy of the USSR. Here, in the pavilion “Gas industry”, a series of exhibitions dedicated to special design Bureau Gazstroymashina, where high-performance mechanisms for gas and oil routes.

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ON ASPHALT WITH A BOAT MOTOR

ON THE ASPHALT WITH A BOAT MOTORAfter reading the title, you might think: a motor is being repaired. Nothing of the sort. This patially “Surf” in excellent condition. But it is not set on the boat, and on the original four-wheeled horseless carriage, designed and built in children’s technical club ZHKO research Institute of inorganic materials.

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AS FOR THE VILLAGE WITHOUT A TRACTOR?

AS A VILLAGE WITHOUT A TRACTOR?(The end. Beginning at No. 8 and 9,’02)
 
FRONT PANELS the front has cutouts for the levers transfer case and the inclusion of the rear axle, under the steering column and cut a window under the main brake cylinder (GHZ). From top to Polycom welded bracket for additional securing the steering column, opposite the window under the GTZ — bracket-lever-pedal control rack of the fuel pump (“gas”). The bottom is welded strap attachment GTZ, brackets, brake and clutch levers for the transfer case and the inclusion of the rear axle.

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