TRAILER “COMPROMISE”

TRAILER With the approaching holiday period, many tourists (especially family) start to think about how and where they will Park and ride to live at the camp or on wheels, equipped with machine devices to sleep, or just in the tent. There are other, so to speak related, problems. For example, drinking water supplies in transit and at rest, the sanitary arrangements, lighting system, device, nutrition, etc. the Best solution is to build individual camper with a universal hitch that allows you to tow it as a private car and associated transport.

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TIRES FOR ATV

TIRE FOR ATVAfter the publication of “imaginative artists of Karelia” in No. 1 of 2008 “Modeller-designer” category “Panorama photos of readers ‘letters” to me began to address the readers-homebrew with a request to describe the method of manufacture of lightweight tires for the Amateur designs of all-terrain vehicles standard tyres of tractors. I understand these people — he was in this position. He remembered his ordeal in the curing chambers punctures of the tires in the cold to 30°C, the endless repair of the retaining straps of the cleats and decided on this issue to prepare the material and answer readers through the magazine, so as to write each one individually is not possible.

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ROCKET J. HAROLD

ROCKET J. HAROLDAt the world Cup 1978, held in the city of Yambol (Bulgaria) in the class RC raketoplana S-4-D (the maximum mass of 240 g, the total impulse of the propulsion system 10-40 n*s) a convincing victory was won by the American athlete Harold Anglin. In three rounds, his model flew for 5 min in the fourth, additional, 3 min 23 s.

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UNDERWATER GUNSHOT

UNDERWATER FIREARMSpearfishing in waters with complex bottom relief and limited transparency of water has its own characteristics: no time to restore the gun, nowhere to maneuver. Rifle, currently available in the sale, for such conditions uncomfortable. Which is preferable underwater guns. Of the known types of such weapons is most suitable — capsule. Their main advantage is that when fired the harpoon at the impulse of several hundred kilograms, in contrast to the guns of other systems where the force on the harpoon does not exceed tens of kilograms. Accordingly vary the speed of the harpoon. The advantages of cap and ball pistols can be attributed to the ease of loading.

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“BREAKING” MALOGRUZOVAJA

Like many readers of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, fond of design — so more than the others interest me in the magazine sections of the “Social Bureau” and “Small-scale mechanization”. For plowing, harrowing and cultivation of the garden made self-propelled electric winch. Use it for ten years. The attention of the readers offer their latest design Read more…

A DREAM COME TRUE

A childhood dream to build a car. However, do it only in adulthood. Registering the car in traffic police in 1974 to go now. Received her prize at the regional and city exhibitions of technical creativity — I wrote to the editor P. Baranov from the city of Orsk, Orenburg region. Car three-door (two rear Read more…

SPLIT MISSILE

SPLIT MISSILECzechoslovak athlete A. Turnips became the winner of the world championship held in 1978 in Bulgaria. He performed with the model missiles S-6-A. the Distinctive feature of his model — longitudinal connector housings. The model of this design was the only one in competition for the duration of the flight tape.

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THE ELECTRICS IS TIME FLYING!

THE ELECTRICS IT'S TIME TO FLY!Flying model aircraft with electric motor is silent and doesn’t poison the atmosphere with exhaust gases. Model spared from the shaking characteristic of internal combustion engines, and, consequently, radio equipment, installed on the models with a motor, works more reliably (especially servos). That’s why recent sales microelectronical new grades immediately attracted the attention of modelers. However, the first samples have revealed some of their weaknesses: the unreliability of the brush mechanism and bearings, lack of ventilation of the armature and ferrite-barievykh magnets. Used for the manufacture of parts of the armature and commutator polystyrene cannot withstand high temperatures (150-170°).

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