A story about all the machines and mechanisms created by amateur constructor Vasily Alekseevich SVERBIL from the village of Zelenchukskaya in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic cannot fit into one publication. It’s better to tell about them one by one. And we’ll start, perhaps, with the simplest thing the craftsman built—the “Elektronik” walk-behind tractor. They say that Read more…
From the depths of centuries, the shovel has reached us, to which V. Dal, the creator of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, gave an amazingly apt definition: “a blade tool for digging and scooping loose materials.” This hand tool is well-known to owners of dachas and garden plots, not to mention Read more…
In my time, I had the opportunity to build and test many motorboats. The first to hit the water was the motorboat “Zvezdochka”, whose drawings were published in the October 1966 issue of the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine. It is known that in rural areas, DIY enthusiasts are not spoiled by the wide range of construction materials Read more…
The author of this material is a schoolboy from a distant Siberian city. When the editorial office received his letter describing the ski-track snowmobile he had built, he was 15 years old and studying in the tenth grade of secondary school. Now Yevgeny has grown older, more experienced, and would probably design some components of Read more…
It’s nice to try fresh mushrooms in the cold January. You’ll be able to pick them at any time of year if you build a mushroom growing cabinet. Externally, it’s a two-door cabinet measuring 2290X2130X1035 mm, which can be installed, say, in a large hallway. The cabinet is constructed like a thermostat — with walls Read more…
Car enthusiasts who have dachas or homestead plots take up shovels in spring just as enthusiastically as the carless part of humanity. Meanwhile, they could quite avoid such unproductive expenditure of their own physical effort by shifting a significant portion of it onto their car. Any passenger car can become an excellent plowman—you just need Read more…
Wind has always been considered a symbol of inconstancy, and attempts to convert its energy into electrical energy most often led to results that were not very encouraging. Indeed, everyone expects stability from a source of electrical energy: flip a switch — and the light bulb lights up. But wind, alas, is changeable. However, it Read more…
It’s easiest to say: “When I grow up, I’ll get behind the wheel of a car, take a plane into the sky, build what I dreamed of…” But it turns out that many dreams can come true even at the age of fifteen, if you don’t sit idle, but boldly take on their realization. We Read more…
Most of the vehicles I built were based on mass-produced noisy and “fuel-guzzling” motorcycle or bicycle internal combustion engines. This was convenient on one hand, but very troublesome on the other, as the quality of the engines rarely satisfied and I had to spend a lot of effort, and most importantly, time on their refinement Read more…
As the vacation period approaches, many auto tourists (especially families) begin to think about where and how they will rest on the road: living in a campground or on wheels, equipping the car with devices for overnight stays, or simply in a tent. There are other, so to speak, accompanying problems. For example, supplies of Read more…
