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Contents: How To Guard Your Home Against Fire (Prevent tragedy in your home inexpensively); Egg For An Atomic Engine (Building a power plant for the submarine Sea Wolf); The Owners Report: Mercury For 1954 (Clymer records pros and cons of Merc owners); Mexico Builds A Glamour Campus (In color – Modern architecture south of the border); Guarding The Graveyard Of Ships (Coastguardsmen earn their pay here); Restoring Antique Cars Is My Hobby (Frank Stokes tells about a new, fast-growing hobby); It’s Moving Day For Wildlife (Transplanting wildlife will mean better hunting for you) For The Craftsman – Care And Use Of Paintbrushes (Your task will be easier if you take care of ’em); Family Camping Trailer – Part 1 (Jim Kendall tells how it’s built); Crusette – 12-Foot Utility Outboard (Tom Riley and John Bergen come up with a good one); From Tank To Carburetor (How the fuel system of your car works); How To Cut Coped Joints (Sam Brown takes the mystery out of a puzzler); The How Of Straight Shaping (Make your own special moldings) Special Features – Vertical Take-Off; New Tools For Your Lawn; Bathyscaphe; Magic Boxes; Firing Aluminum With Color; Lumber Cafeteria; Auto Penthouse; Boy’s Room Goes Western; Make It A Magic Party; Let’s Go Fishin’ Regular Features – Detroit Listening Post; What’s New For Your Home; Solving Home Problems; Plan Of The Month; Shopping For Tools Radio, TV, Electronics – Color TV Today; First Aid For Radios; Tiny Transistor Receiver Automotive – Plymouth Sport Coupe Has Matched Luggage; Chrysler’s Plymouth-Installed Gas Turbine; Rear-Engine Auto Carrier Mounts Bunk Under Cab; Air Force Sergeant Builds Convertible For Son At Cost Of $125 Automotive Accessories – Nash Low-Cost Air Conditioner Cools Or Heats By Turning Knob; You Can Be Your Own Highway Patrolman With Buzzing “Speedometer”; Streamlined Aluminum Upper Berth Clamps To Automobile Roof; Crankcase-Oil Reservoir Fills Engine Automatically; You Can Assemble Your Own Four-Bunk Vacation-Trailer With Kit; Inside Windshield Wiper Anchored To Suction Cup; Auto Penthouse Will Sleep Four; Hinged Wings On Automobile Mirror Increase Rear Vision; Hand-Held Pneumatic Tool Forces Tire Bead From Rim Aviation – Electronic System Used By Air Force Lands 120 Planes Per Hour; Midget Pusher Sports Plane Can Fly 200 Miles Per Hour; Radio Waves Hold Robot Helicopter In Fixed Hovering Position; “Tennis Net” Crash Barrier Halts Jet Planes At End Of Runway; German Pilot Builds “Windmill” For Ground-Sky Travel Boats And Boating – Variable-Pitch Propeller For Outboard Motor; Aircraft Engine And Propeller Blow Aluminum Craft Along Water; Transparent Plastic Boat Passes Tests In France; Working Model Of Columbia River Steamer Complete To Last Detail; Rolling Mast Platform Permits Easy Loading Of Long Cargo; Nylon Boat Cover Construction – Mexican Suspension Bridge Built In Shape Of Basket Handle; House Suspended In Space Rests On Tapered Beams; Earth Tamper Mounted On Trench Filler Packs Automatically; Self-Contained Electric Heating Shaft Installed Between Studding Farm And Garden – Two-Piece Kit Seals Breaks In Plastic Garden Hose; New Tools For Your Garden; Staggered Wheels On Rotary Mower; Lawn Trimmer; Leaf Burner; Robot Mower; Exhaust Silencer; Soil Aerator; Rotary Mower; Adjustable Sprinkler; “Whip End” Garden Hose; Root Soaker; Root-Crop Spray Prevents Sprouting; Burlap Grain Bin Industry – Roller-Welder Unit Does Work Of Seven Spot-Welding Machines; Hydraulic Rake Mounted On Tractor Clears Sugar Cane From Field; Clay-Extrusion Machine Recreation And Hobbies – Tiny Railroad With Only 156 Feet Of Track Spans Oceans; Plastic Pinochie Tally Keeps Changing Record Of Game Progress; Aluminum Golf Cart Has Numbered Slots for 14 Clubs Science – Pin-Size Neon Glow Lamp Aids Timing Of Film; Ten-Foot X-Ray Picture Reveals Minute Flaws In Steel Castings; Electrons Photograph Stars To Produce Sharper And Faster Pictures; H-Bomb Element May Help War On Cancer; Silicon Transistor; Atomic By-Product Gauges Irrigation; Algae “Seasoning”; Pressured Fluid Forms Tight Seal Around Supersonic Wind Valve; Titanium Plentiful In Hawaii; Locust Carousel Checks Duration And Speed Of Insect’s Flight; Chemists Synthesize Sugar; “Atomic” Microscope House And Home – What’s New Fir Your Home – Reservoir For Steam Iron; Pickup Cord; Hat Holder; Feed-Down Racks; Electric Frying Pan; Adjustable Glide; Wall Refrigerator; Knife Sharpener; Plunger For Drains; Candle Carburetor Miscellaneous – Plastic Shield For Police Offer Protection From Bullets; Adapter Converts Black-And-White TV Set To Color For $100; Dome Car Has Upper Lounge; Computers Use Costly Metal; Models Replace Surveyors In Planning New Jersey’s Highway; Heart-Lung Machine Does Both Jobs During 26-Minute Surgery; Portable Chest Unfolds To Provide Table For Drawing Or Drafting; Train For Turkey Has Compact Diesel Engine Built Into Truck; Quickly Erected Portable Grandstand Will Seat Nine Spectators; TV Links Bank And Brunch To Speed Operations; Two-Part Baby Carriage Divides To Carry Groceries Or Parcels; Airborne Baby’s Berth Suspended From Wall; Bedside Air Conditioner Purifies, Cools And Dries Air; Balloon-Type Seat Cushion Folds To Fit Shirt Pocket; Los Angeles Bus Loaders Use “Pogo Stick” Fare Boxes; Lamp Mounted On Typewriter Floods Paper With Light; Adjustable Canvas To Tent Or Tarp; Transparency Viewer Carried In Vest Pocket; Telephone Transistors; “Brief Case” Camp Kit Totes Shovel, Ax And Water Craftsman And Shop Notes Index – Automotive – Black Tape On Automobile Antenna Stops Reflected Spotlight Glare; Battery Cable Quickly Attached By Using Grip-Type Pliers; Burned Distributor Cap Contact Causes Misfiring Of Engine Farm – Hand Grip For Dairy Brush; Tags Attached To Young Trees With Split Section Of Hose; Junked Walking-Plow Beam Supports Rural Mailbox; High-Pressure Insecticide Sprayer Utilizes Gear-Type Pump; Trailer-Mounted Corn Sheller Driven By Tractor Take-Off; Hayrake Teeth Divide Trough; Fence Opening For Farm Dogs Provided By Suspended Tire Fishing And Boating – Let’s Go Fishin’; Antproof Docking Facilities Improvised For Cabin Cruiser; Inner Tube With A Sail Tows Heavy Fishing Line Offshore Hobbies, Novelties And Toys – Bas-Relief Carving Of Lincoln Bust; Make It A Magic Party; Small Doll’s Bed Is Assembled Quickly From Two Cigar Boxes House And Home – Porcelain Insulator Converted Into Clothesline Clamp; Emergency Plug For Small Leak Cut From Sheet Rubber; Cord Shortened Without Cutting By Taping Inside Lamp Base; Laying Roll Roofing Effectively; Replace Venetian-Blind Cord By Using Old One As A Guide; Steel Angle On Stairwell Railing Prevents Dangerous “Perching”; Curtain Rod Easier To Push Through Curtain; Linoleum-Binding Tape; Milk Carton Filled With Sand For Doorstop; Individual Saltcellars For Picnicking; Sealing Envelopes With Ice Cubes And Cloth; Children Can’t Lock Themselves In Bathroom; Handy Basement Rack; Rubber Pad For Food-Chopper Clamp; Storing Canned Goods; Cuup-And-Saucer Rack Fashioned From Brass Or Copper Wire; Inexpensive And Decorative Patio Gate Insures Privacy; Metal Shelf Brackets Modified For Use As Temporary Supports; Water Tank Decorate Driveway; Pencil Ferrule Pits Cherries; Stair Tread Protects Window Sill Against Flowerpot Stains; Sill-Cock Provides Handy Drinking Fountain For Children Lawn And Garden – Protect Knees When Gardening With Pads Cut From Inner Tubes; Make Handy Offset Weeding Tool From Ordinary Table Knife; Tipping Bird Bath Attracts Songbirds And Keeps Cats Away; Garden Watered From Leaky Hose; Light Attached To Lawn Mower Powered By Small Generator; Discarded Hacksaw Blade Made Into Effective Garden Weeder; Plant Cuttings Rooted Easily In Plastic Wrapper Miscellaneous – Refinish Metal Name Plates With Lacquer And Sandpaper; Dip-Painting Irregular Objects; Mirror Used For Emergency Notes When Paper Is Not Available; Wooden Strip Used As Handle For Small Magnifying Glass; Flexible Water-Pipe Joints From Auto-Radiator Hose Office, Shop And Store – Yellow Laundry Soap On Fingers Aids Rapid Handling Of Papers; Roughened Surface Of Triangle Takes Pencil Marks Easily; Ash Tray Beside Drawing Board Keeps Works Space Clear Photography – Ornamental Plastic Switch Plate Masks Photographic Prints; Ventilator For Photo Darkroom Made From Stovepipe Elbows; Emergency Darkroom Safelight; Mixing-Spoon Handle Graduated To Measure Photo Solutions; Plastic Food Boxes Protect Film When Stored In Refrigerator; Speed Graphic Operating Steps Noted On Parallax Finder; Keep Prints From Slipping; Photo Lamp From Odd Parts; Camera Support Is Improvised With Two Chairs And Books; Hose Used As Funnel Holder; Negatives Stored In File Box; Hot Water Softens Sponge For Wiping Photographs; Print Drier; Curved Tin Deflector On Tray Permits Uniform Print-Washing Tools – Solder Reduces Punch Anvil; Notched Jaws Improve Vise; Wheel Puller; Shopping For Tools: Hole Saw; Mortising Table; Rolling Tool Rack; Variable-Speed Drive; Vibrationless Filing Machine; Angle Gauger; Double-Cut Linoleum Knife; Impact Press Workshop Hints – Chrome Kitchen Chair Converted To Temporary Youth Seat; Release Clutch Of Bar Clamp By Using C-Clamp; How To Cut Coped Joints; Internal Screw Threads Measured With Aid Of Lead Pencil; Movable Light Over Workbench Slides Along Overhead Wire; Spring Unwound On Steel Rod; Left-Hand Thread On Round Stock Cut With Right-Hand Tap; Angle-Steel Spring Compressor For Valve-In-Head Engine; Rack Formed With Sawhorses Aids In Cutting Fence Wire; Hyprodermic Syringe Lubricates Small Electric Motors; Screwdriver Holds Small Bolts To Loosen Rusted Nut Radio-Television, Electronics – Television Today; First-Aid Hints For Table-Model Radios; High-Frequency Transistors In Experimental Receiver
Issue: May 1954
Condition: Very Good