WORKING SLED

WORK SLEDAs soon as the first snow fell, it became clear that the house has no need of such cargo winter vehicle as a sled. Child’s sled for a long time “went” on a well-deserved rest in a pile of scrap metal, and weak they would have to carry the heavy loads.

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TRANSPORT… OF SILENCE

TRANSPORT... OF SILENCEThe voice of the motorcycle or moped is familiar to everyone: a sharp and often as machine-gun fire, the crackle of a motor rips the silence, causing the others to flinch. And harmful effects of the exhausts themselves! With the growing number of these machines increases the degree of poisoning of the atmosphere by exhaust gases.

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WITH THE RUBBER MOTOR AND WITHOUT

WITH THE RUBBER MOTOR AND WITHOUTSchematic model of the airframe and the aircraft, as you know, started flying much earlier than their full-size prototypes. Paving the real aircraft’s path in the sky, they are now helping novice modelers to do their first steps in small aircraft. It is a pity that the modern “schematicity” do not differ from those that did even our grandparents: all of the same pine strips, aluminum wire, model aircraft rubber, a little tissue paper, yarn and glue. No new materials, no advanced design and engineering techniques.

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HYDRAULIC… CLASS

HYDRAULIC.Imagine you are in class technical schools. Class is in session. Lecturer for the Department sets the course, and the students, as expected, sitting at desks and listening attentively. But here ends the theoretical part, and is unusual in that the teacher, instead of inviting listeners to go to the shop or the lab, asking them to stand in the aisles. Then presses the button on the remote, and the tables as the team descends to the level of the seats. Revved the motor… and rows of tables slowly go under the chair! Fifteen minutes — and the room is free for practice sessions.

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OF THE SATELLITES — TANDEM

OF THE SATELLITES — TANDEMDescription a three-wheeled tandem, published in the journal (№3, 1979), I liked inherent in it the idea to tandem bike of the usual single, without making major changes to the original design. But the proposed version was not very satisfied: still frame of the second bike had undergone the unwanted interference. I wanted to find a way of articulation, that when there is no need to tandem it was possible to restore the bike to original form.

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SIMPLE, AS A SLEDGE

My snowmobile which I called “Ayavrik”, simple in construction, as intended to overcome huge snowdrifts. I was built for moving from hole to hole for ice fishing on a snow-covered ice, writes Anton from Togliatti. And to the river I am translating it in the trunk “Niva” (by the way it can even fit two Read more…

“THE PESTLE” FOR A GROUND

When landscaping a backyard or suburban area, as well as in the construction of which other individual object is constantly required to fill the fossa and sinuses soil, which needs to be sealed. Inevitable hronotropony work, and quite a large volume, for example in the preparation of the base for the concrete floor in the structure, the backfill soil into the cavities of the trench during the construction of Foundation etc. in the production of these works need a weapon impact as a tamper.

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