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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: A Boy's Motor Car
Popular Mechanics — The fitting of the engine may next be undertaken. The exact position and method of setting the engine on the frame will depend on the size and type. It should be placed as near the center as possible, to give proper balance.The drawings show a ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: Miniature Metal-Bound Chests
Popular Mechanics — The cover is fixed in place with small plain butts.The butts are countersunk into the wood, one leaf into the top and the other into the back of the box. A simpler method is to set both leaves of the hinge into the edge of the back. Care must be ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: Model Paddle-Wheel Boats
Popular Mechanics — A broom-handle section, just long enough to slip into this frame, is whittled to form a winding drum and fitted with paddles, wire axles, and a crank. A second, shorter section of the broom handle, set between blocks nailed to the stern, serves ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: How to Build Model Airplanes
Popular Mechanics — Next, cut several strips of tough paper 1 in. wide, coat them with glue, and bind each end and the middle of the spars, wrapping two or three thicknesses of paper around them. This is to prevent splitting. From a piece of soft wire, 1/16 in. in ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: A Homemade Roller Coaster
Popular Mechanics — The track is of simple construction and requires but little description. It is necessary tomake it straight and nailed firmly to the cross ties on the ground and to the trestles where it is elevated. The ties and trestles are placed about 6 ft. ...More…
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A very good electric scoreboard
Popular Mechanics — The front of the box should be fastened with screws to make its removal easy in case of repairs. This part of the box carries the frame for inserting the numbers and the words "Home Team" and "Visitors," as shown in Fig. 3. Because the ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: A Guitar That Is Easy to Make
Popular Mechanics — Cut the fingerboard tapering and fasten pieces cut from hatpins with small wire staples for frets. All dimensions for cutting and setting are shown in the sketch. The neck is cut tapering from G to F and J to F, with the back side rounding. A ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: How to Make Paper Balloons
Popular Mechanics — This type of balloon, made spherical or designed like the regular aeronaut's hot-air balloon, are the best kind to make. Those having an odd or unusual shape will not make good ascensions, and in most cases, the paper will catch fire from the ...More…
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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: A Workbench For The Amateur
Popular Mechanics — Make the lower frame first. Cut tenons on the rails and mortise the posts, then fasten them securely together with 3/8-by-5-in. lag screws as shown. Also fasten the 11/2-by-3- by-24-in. pieces to the tops of the posts with screws. The heads ...More…
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STRUCTURAL QUANDARIES: DOORS:
Popular Mechanics — Tape carbon paper or another type of blued paper along the edge that is sticking. Open and close the door, and the bluing will mark the problem areas, allowing you to sand or plane exactly the points that are causing the door to stick. This works ...More…
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STRUCTURAL QUANDARIES: WINDOWS:
Popular Mechanics — Wear heavy-duty work gloves to remove the broken glass, then staple a square of thick plastic (a double thickness of a heavy-duty garbage bag works well) onto the surrounding sash or mullions. Keep rain and wind on the right side of the window by ...More…
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Quick Fixes for Front (and Sliding) Door Locks
Popular Mechanics — Over time, lock tumblers can become misaligned and clogged with all kinds of gunk. The way to ensure your key makes a clean entrance and exit every time is by providing effective lubrication that won't add to the gunk. The best is powdered ...More…