Less and less often you’ll see nimble mopeds on our roads. And this is not surprising: the main manufacturers, by the will of fate, ended up abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So everything that is still sold from this range in specialized stores today are foreign-made models. Accordingly, the price… Moreover, fickle motorcycle fashion Read more…
The structure I’m going to talk about could be called a potato harvester, as it consists of several relatively independent units. The potato digger is designed primarily for coupling with the mini-tractor “Osorinets”, described in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12, 1996. But since it has an autonomous engine, it can work in tandem with any tractor regardless Read more…
In the mid-80s, television screens in many countries widely advertised small, fast, exceptionally maneuverable motorized vessels under the general name “water motorcycle”: “jet ski”, “waterbot”, “hydrocycle”. They immediately won the hearts of water sports enthusiasts, displacing windsurfers, water skiers, and representatives of some types of water-motor sports. However, reproducing a hydrocycle design at home is Read more…
Every time the season for preserving vegetables and making juices approaches, I catch myself thinking that I’ll have to go to my neighbor again to borrow his juicer. It looks unassuming and simple in design, but once I’ve worked with it, I can no longer bring myself to use my industrial electric-powered juicer with numerous Read more…
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…
