BUILDING A CAR

BUILDING A CAR(Continued. Beginning at No. 10 in 1975.)
 
TO ENSURE THE SMOOTH PROGRESS AND SUSTAINABILITY
 
This task is more difficult than a lighter car. There are examples where Amateur designers created the suspension of a small car accidental selection of the finished parts and the result was a hard, Bouncing ia insignificant rough roads, bad listen to steering the car. Meanwhile, considering some of the theories and to use the experience of designing “real” cars, it is possible to achieve good smoothness and stability.

Read more

BOAT-BAUL

BOAT-BAULAmong the boats built by Amateurs for their own projects, occupy a special place, as we now say, a “mini-design”. To them, undoubtedly, belongs and the boat is”baby”, created by our reader from Kiev N. G. Tarasyuk. A sheet of plywood, a few pine planks, half a kilo of casein glue or epoxy is all that is needed for its production. The capacity of “baby” is such that allows the two to take a little walk, to fish and hunt. The boat sits perfectly on krasivom the trunk of the car, and for transportation provided manually miniature truck on one wheel from scooter (size 12(1/2)x2(3/4).

Read more

DUTIL

DVUTILDVUTIL“It is easier to pull than push” — the ancients said. Indeed, what if leading and control functions to combine in one wheel and make it no pushing and pulling! In the classical scheme of two-wheeled vehicles (motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, etc.) the rear wheel is usually the leading, front of the same control.

Read more

THE HARVESTER GOES ON THE COURSE

THE HARVESTER GOES TO THE COURSEWhen Gennady Kulish arrived in Kirovohrad Institute of agricultural engineering, engineering, it, recent rocketmodeler, and in a head could not come that an important part of modern aviation and rocketry — radio location — will find application in agriculture. And that the range of agricultural machinery, he will experience no less exciting moments than with their launching of rockets.

Read more

UNDER CONTROL — CAMBER

UNDER CONTROL — CAMBERInfringement of corners of forward wheels of cars leads to unpleasant consequences: increasing the load on the steering wheel, the difficult control of the car, there is an intensive unilateral wear of a protector of tires: when you increase the camber wears out faster outside, lower — inside. Therefore, as soon as the above symptoms, you should not shelving them to check and the corresponding adjustment of the camber angles.

Read more

ASP-3: SNOWMOBILE FROM UFA

ASP-3: SNOWMOBILE FROM UFAASP-3: SNOWMOBILE FROM UFA“In the past I Aviator, wrote the Director of station of young technicians Ufa refinery P. S. Astashkin, and for obvious reasons I wanted to build a snowmobile that resembled a plane. After all, the best part of his life to aviation started at the flying club, finished in guards red banner assault regiment, which took place from the Volga to Berlin.

Read more

RECUMBENT: HANDS AND FEET

RECUMBENT: HANDS AND FEETThe advantages of a velomobile compared to a bike known to all. First things first- it is resistance, and thanks to her and comfort (although relative) is also much higher. I want to share with readers design another simple and compact recumbent. In the feature I want to include the word “universal” because it allows the drive to connect to the work in addition to legs and arms.

Read more

SADDLE AND HANDLEBARS — HELPERS PEDALS

THE SADDLE AND THE HANDLEBARS — HELPERS PEDALS“Dear editors!
 
Read in issue No. 7 article “Reinvent the wheel!”, long thought, what I’d like to see him. The picture I painted your project…”
 
Dima Kovalev, 13 years old, Avtomobilist, Vladivostok
 
“I read an interesting article about bikes. It is very good that the magazine raises the question of their modernization. I both hands “for”.
 
A. Brilev, electrical fitter, Kirovsk, Murmansk region.
 
“I was interested in the article about bikes, and I decided to fill in the form “M-K”…
 
Valery Ivanov, a student GPTU, Kurgan