SCOOTER IN THE SNOW

SCOOTER IN THE SNOWSnow scooter we recommend that you do, will give the opportunity not only to descend from the snowy mountains, but to engage in the slalom. To build it is not too difficult. Well, of course, if you manage to use the weld, but in a pinch you can do without it, replacing the weld bolt.

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HILLER-ARMREST

HILLER-PODRUCHNIKDo not consider it shameful to use a good development designers and lovers they share the magazine. But, armed with their interesting ideas and technical solutions, and the very creative approach. So for the treatment of potato between the rows was made cultivator-Hiller. He arranged for motorcycle scheme, when working on (cultivator or Hiller) is located between the two running “in the tracks” wheels: guide (“sulker” from children’s pedal cars) and leading (of the scooter Tulitsa).

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STEAM BOAT

STEAM BOATThe model, which will be discussed in this article warmed the soul to generations of young sailors. In the distant postwar years, and even in the sixties, such a boat could be found on store shelves. From many toy counterparts his distinguished acting steam engine in the bilge – in the furnace was burning real flame to heat up and boil water in a small steam boiler, humming quietly, pushing the boat forward, two small jet of thin tubes. On a boat it was impossible to look without admiration – he was so real! And easy the soot from the burnt fuel on the surface of the cutting gave this amazing little machine is truly a “combat” look. The greatest effect was achieved in the twilight, when at full speed in the Windows of the wheelhouse, it was possible to observe the flickering glare of the flame.

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YOUNGER BROTHER

A mini-tractor, which is presented to the readers of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, is the third built by me. His frame is “broken”, consists of two articulated half-frames, as in the heavy tractor T-150. A node of articulation serves as a node (or mechanism) of rotation. A used engine from a motorcycle “Ural”, equipped with a Read more…

CATERPILLAR ELECTRICAL WIRE

THE CATERPILLAR OF THE ELECTRIC WIREOne of the most critical components of the machines crawler — tanks, all-terrain vehicles, armored personnel carriers, tractors, trucks is the suspension, particularly caterpillars. Their tapes, as you know, is assembled from separate parts — the tracks connected by fingers. Each track has a grooved surface — lugs deliver reliable traction. On the side of the track facing the rollers, is guide comb, preventing a descent of rollers with treadmill tracks the motion of the model, especially during turns.

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POTATO

Potato hasn’t been easy work. Meanwhile, a simple Assembly can radically transform it, making it significantly easier. In appearance he is a one-wheeled wheelbarrow, but not the usual wheel. It consists of three parts — two outer metal disks bent to the external side of teeth-lugs and the middle part, is sawn from a Board Read more…

THE FAMILY OF SWIFTS — FAMILY FRIENDLY

THE FAMILY OF the Conversation today will focus on the sailboat of a new type — light weight, affordable and versatile vessel-trimaran, which portable travel paddle with a soft shell. The merits of such a lot of trimarans, and one of the most important is the low cost of the kayaks and additional sailing arms. In addition, such a vessel do not require hospital car Park on the shore — enough and the mezzanine in the apartment; to deliver the same trimaran to the water is possible even on public transport, not to mention the train.

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MANUAL LAWN MOWER

MANUAL LAWN MOWERAll you know how to grow corn and sunflowers. But it is unlikely that many people imagine how their cleaning. On large areas, of course, operate harvesters and other machines, but on a small, say, a school or experimental plots and to this day I use the lawn shears. However, very tedious and, more importantly, unproductive job. Our young technicians Roofing Sinkevich and Sasha CATIA set out to develop a manual mower for krupnogabaritnykh plant. They came up with a simple and interesting design, which formed the basis of the mechanism. Finally lawn mower “took shape” after a number of improvements and tweaks suggested by Sasha Malkov and Sergey Bolgarskom: now this is a real unit, which not only decimated, but even carefully lays the cut plants.

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ON THE TRACK, “LENINGRAD-2”

ON TRACK, Several years ago I came across a photograph of an unfamiliar race car. Machine interested, but no additional information about the photo caption does not contain, and the search for them has long remained unsuccessful. But once the case got me with one of the designers of this car. With the help of the necessary information about the car focused on my desktop and now I can offer to the hobby to make it the trace option.

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