HOW TO MAKE “ZIMMERIT”

HOW TO MAKE Anyone interested in the history of armored vehicles is well known that highly characteristic feature of the external appearance of the German tanks since 1943 was an anti-magnetic coating of armor — so-called “zimmerit”. Originally this coating was intended only for the Eastern front, but soon became an integral part of all tanks of the Wehrmacht. “Zimmerit” with a rather complex chemical composition, in simplified form, is represented as a mixture of latex with cement. The idea of such a coating is rather controversial, since the magnetic mines were used only by guerrillas, and after application the tank was still “clean” place (rollers, tracks, etc.). In the end mine was “to stick” and to railway platform, and downhill equally flew echelon with tanks, as with the “Cimmeria”, and without it. But nevertheless, the Germans did it quite costly.

NEW TECHNOLOGY

NEW TECHNOLOGYWith all the advantages of fiberglass hulls for model rockets the traditional process of production is highly labor-intensive and unsound. Meanwhile, the conversion gave the modelers a new and very interesting material is heat resistant fiberglass gasket STP-4. It is used widely and, having a small official shelf life, often charged and often goes to the shops “Junior technician” or “Do it yourself”.

FLIGHT ELECTROLET

AEROBATIC ELECTROLET

Judging by the letters from our readers, the interest in the model aircraft with electric motor is not reduced. Comes a lot of questions about the challenges of producing interesting flying machines and development of specific projects. One of them we want to acquaint the followers of electroperu. Very effective control line aerobatic model created by A. SUHANOVYM from the city of Astrakhan. In addition, they built “nilotica” interesting minimal use balsa, which gives the possibility of playing in almost any conditions. If necessary, balsa items without much damage to the mass of the model can be replaced made of lightweight Linden (in this case, TopMenu blanks should be reduced in half to two times).

TWO FIGHTING WING

TWO FIGHTING WINGDeveloped in the circle of aircraft modeling station of young technicians of the city of Berezniki of the Perm region and the following proposed model of “air combat” is designed for mid-level athletes. They are distinguished by a good performance, sufficient strength and manufacturability. But for some modelers who do not have experience with foam lomikami or do not have access to the material of the required quality, it may be advantageous to use as the main material lime veneer (which, as a rule, can be made independently). Both bouzouki built on a “flying wing”, dominant in the Junior class and sports the “air battle” of the last decade.

ERSATZ FUEL “CALLOC”

SUBSTITUTE FUEL

Search methanol for glow motors have always been a big problem. The situation is slightly simplified Pope the publication of interesting material about the ersatz fuel in the “M-K” № 6, 1986. However… was not so easy to find and required for its preparation the solvent oil-based paints. Finally the problem was solved after the publication of a number of other recipes fuel mixtures in the “M-K” n b star 1990. Of all the options the most simple mixture based on gasoline And-76 and AI-93. However, there is little difficulty. On a mixture of perfumes work well only with a special selection of glow candles. But this possibility is not at all.

ELLIPSE-PILOTAGE

ELLIPSE -PILOTAGEWe offer cordovano-pilotando design developed in the model aircraft kraine Industrial syut Perm city under the leadership of K. Minkova. It is designed for engine KMD-2,5 and has a detachable wing, stabilizer and fin, which greatly simplifies the transport of the model and its repair. “Pilotage” is designed for those who have sufficient experience in modeling and wants to possess elegant and functional sports equipment.

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NEW CLASS:LAND VERKADE

Aware that in the modern mass automodelisme in a very objective and not very reasons there is a critical situation to the attention of athletes, club Directors, and especially the workers of the Federation of auto modeling sport of Russia unusual material. It is dedicated to the development of a new concept (hopefully, very promising!) class car — unmanaged vetrogonov.

WINNING “SKYSCRAPER”

WINNING Present to the readers a model rocket class S1B (altitude) with a total impulse of engines to 5 N·s allowed A. Mityureva for a number of years show high sports results (1990— second place at the world Cup, 754 m; 1991— first place in the match USSR—USA, 860 m; 1992—second place at the world Cup, 787 m; 1993— first place on European championship, 1178 m). It should be noted that such good results have been achieved thanks to, among other things, and specially designed engines designed by A. Sparia.

“PARTY” TIMERITE

Unbeatable the development of composite and “duralumin” technology in the championship class expense of building a traditional Р2С, n unfortunately has a negative side. First of all it concerns the mass popularity of time. The fact that the technology which provides the elite group unikalnye results, not tan available in regular krukowski conditions. In Patni to apply the techniques of the masters also do not necessarily guarantee expected performance and technical data in connection with many subtleties at all stages of model generation. Moreover, starting from the selection of raw materials, adhesives, technologies, tooling and ending with the balancing and debugging machines, originally designed under a single superdigital. Important is the problem of the scarcity of the same materials and adhesives.

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