On the shelves of sports stores you can often see elegant double sledge for skiing the mountains, called “Chuk and GEK”. The sleds solidly constructed, brightly colored, very attractive in appearance, but… do not use special demand. We do not undertake to judge how good these sleds, what their shop offers, but after the installation of vasodilates D-5 and they, undoubtedly, will be a very interesting self-propelled machine (Fig. 1). Such a construction was offered by a famous Leningrad artist — N. Abramov. In our opinion, the use of sledge “Chuk and GEK” as a basis for creating various children’s trails in machine — sensible initiative. It should be noted that the possibility of their “motorization” is not limited to the offer, which did N. Abramov: in addition to wheel with spikes, can be applied to the screw or the propeller (in the latter case, it will microaerobic). Finally, why not try it instead of the internal combustion engine to set the motor power cable or contact wire?
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Needless to say that coasting on sleds is one of the most popular pastimes — a great form of active rest in winter. Is it because in different countries there are many quite different from each other types of sleds, from simple sieves, stuffed with straw, to multi-piece designs, the manufacture of which only a very good craftsman. Gradually transforming and improving, Luge has won recognition in the international arena and even among the Olympic sports: sledding “skeleton” and “Bob” played the most important sports award — the medal winners of the Olympic games.
For many years he was a subscriber to “Modeller-designer”, learned from your magazine a lot of useful and thanks to him “crush” on the bike (velomobile) theme. But to make own design was only in later years, after retirement. Now I go to this unusual crew (see photo), surprised his fellow citizens and gain of energy and health.
Models — the design tender. And Reiki it requires mainly fine. The cross section of 1X1 mm is probably the most common workpiece. Their production is significantly easier if you use our circular saw with manual transmission. A small sawmill “in the teeth” the thin rail, and the cleanliness of the cut is such that further processing is not required. This is achieved due to the very thin cutting tool, disc cutter with a thickness of 0.2 mm and a diameter of 32, 40 or 50 mm.
I am the son of a mechanic; was born and live in a rural area in the Northern territory. Craving for glands, to equipment I can say that since childhood. While still a “beardless boy”, made a tricycle on the tires. But a serious love of cars started after the publication in № 11’91 of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” (a regular reader of which I am) on crawler-ski snowmobile “Idea-2” brothers Matveichuk from, Zavodoukovsk Tyumen region. This is understandable: in winter and summer in our area equipment — not just a means of transportation, but also the mechanization of household work: a vegetable garden to plow, wood to bring.
Tractor I built out of assemblies, mechanisms and components of decommissioned automotive and agricultural equipment. The D20 engine, diesel, power of 20 HP transmission—four-speed, the car GAS-52. In the transmission there is a reverse mechanism which secures the tractor to move backwards as fast as forwards—from 6 to 26 km/h.
Designers snowmobiles operating in rural areas, and most — often used parts of decommissioned tractor Puscuta PD-10 propeller systems for their cars. It is clear and logical: the engine PD-10 is widely distributed in agriculture, it is necessary to recast it we option is not the challenge. Accumulating the experience of operating planes with such engines, the designers achieve a very noticeable increase their performance by improving purging, selection of carburetors, etc. it is safe to say that at present, a single “rural” snowmobile engine, created on the basis of the PD-10 are the most proven and reliable machine. It should be added that in the construction of chassis, control systems, etc. in recent years also created a lot. According to the editorial, timely information about these updates can assist the novice builders.
Near the base camp in the district of Tsugaru passes along with the tourists, I have built mini-hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 15 W and voltage 220 V. This is sufficient for night camp lighting energy-saving lamps or LEDs. Day also can charge batteries of cameras and camcorders that can connect a radio or tape recorder.
“Oriole” — so I called built for the son of the electric car. The design idea came to me about two years ago, and much credit for this journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. Several months of estimates, calculations, dozens of layouts, hundreds of paintings and drawings of the body has led in the end to be quite rational, in my opinion, the solution. In the process of development of electric vehicles important issue was the problem of using abundant materials, parts and components, and as it seems, I managed to solve it.
Has long been a regular reader and subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. I want to share one interesting result of technical creativity. Sometimes people ask for a drawing apparatus, a photo of which is posted in social networks is decided and for this reason also more to say about it.