FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

25 FT LUXURIOUS CABIN CRUISER Large cabin cruiser boat, measuring 25 feet. Although this section describes the building of a sedan cruiser, this particular hull, with a few changes in the cabin construction, is readily adaptable to a sport fisher, express cruiser or utility boat. LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

25 FT LUXURIOUS CABIN CRUISER Large cabin cruiser boat, measuring 25 feet. Although this section describes the building of a sedan cruiser, this particular hull, with a few changes in the cabin construction, is readily adaptable to a sport fisher, express cruiser or utility boat. LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! BUILD A HAY BALE LOADER PLANS Hay bales are heavy! Built by California ranchers, this efficient bale loader, coupled to the side of a truck, picks up individual bales from the field and elevates them high enough to enable one man to build a six-tier load on either a truck or trailer platform.

LAWN MOWER TRAILER

You need to build a lawn mower trailer. This kind of garden utility trailer is a great little thing to have around the house for hauling dirt, rocks, kids, etc. Without one, the usefulness of your lawn mower is surely limited. It would cost about three times as much to get similar features in a commercial cart, and you can cut building costs

in

BUILD A TRADITIONAL DORY ROW BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for a building your own row boat. One day while hiking in the woods of southeastern Massachusetts with my young sons, we came to a cranberry bog reservoir and spotted a boatlike shape in its depths. We pulled it ashore and found it to be the battered remains of a little dory. PIPE FITTING MADE SCROLL SAWS AND MORE The powerful scroll saw cuts 1"+ stock with ease at 1400 strokes per minute, and is designed to be used with either the heavy saber type blades, or finer jewelers type blades. If you have an old sewing machine and a 1/4 HP motor, the total cost will be very low. View

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LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

VINTAGE JET SKI WITH OUTBOARD MOTOR! A project before its time - the "Aquarail", is a pre-jet ski type boat using an outboard motor. The most attractive feature of the Aquarail is that she's a fast, highly maneuverable yet safe boat. BUILD AN OFFSET CENTER LATHE ATTACHMENT You'll like this lathe attachment for a live end boring bar. Rather than offset the lathe tailstock when turning tapers, after it has been adjusted to accurately turn work between centers, make up an offset center as shown in sketch. This can be quickly set at any position from zero to .625 in. on either side of center, allowing tapers to be FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

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Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. BUILD A TRADITIONAL DORY ROW BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for a building your own row boat. One day while hiking in the woods of southeastern Massachusetts with my young sons, we came to a cranberry bog reservoir and spotted a boatlike shape in its depths. We pulled it ashore and found it to be the battered remains of a little dory. CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say HOME MADE ARC WELDING GUN Category. You can spot weld, tack weld and burn holes in metal with this welding gun you can make yourself. AFTER YOU BUILD this arc-spot welder, you'll find that you can spot weld sheet metal without a back up, also tack weld, and burn holes in sheet metal faster than you can drill them. And, as you use the gun, you'll discover many more jobs TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. BUILD A TRADITIONAL DORY ROW BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for a building your own row boat. One day while hiking in the woods of southeastern Massachusetts with my young sons, we came to a cranberry bog reservoir and spotted a boatlike shape in its depths. We pulled it ashore and found it to be the battered remains of a little dory. CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say HOME MADE ARC WELDING GUN Category. You can spot weld, tack weld and burn holes in metal with this welding gun you can make yourself. AFTER YOU BUILD this arc-spot welder, you'll find that you can spot weld sheet metal without a back up, also tack weld, and burn holes in sheet metal faster than you can drill them. And, as you use the gun, you'll discover many more jobs TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! SAIL BOATS | VINTAGE PROJECTS Build a Rowboat, Sail Boat, Power Boat COMBO. We have two plans for a small boats that can be a sail boat, row boat or outboard powered.

Discuss this plan!

CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

VINTAGE JET SKI WITH OUTBOARD MOTOR! Category. A project before its time - the "Aquarail", is a pre-jet ski type boat using an outboard motor. The most attractive feature of the Aquarail is that she's a fast, highly maneuverable yet safe boat. With a. high-pitch, two-blade prop on our 20-hp Chrysler outboard she does more than 35 mph carrying one person and more than 30 carrying two. CLASSIC MINI BIKE BUILD PLANS Vintage, classic. This mini bike is souped up with a torque convertor. There are two plans - the first uses a junked bicycle for parts, and the second is the super old-school traditional mini bike style. We've also found a lot of good information on free mini bike plans at the DIY Go Karts website. Take a small kart engine, add a slick variable CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say 25 FT LUXURIOUS CABIN CRUISER Large cabin cruiser boat, measuring 25 feet. Although this section describes the building of a sedan cruiser, this particular hull, with a few changes in the cabin construction, is readily adaptable to a sport fisher, express cruiser or utility boat. SMALL SCOOTER PLANS WITH GAS ENGINE This scooter is a simple, sit down style. It's a lot of fun for keeping up with go karts, tooling around the neightborhood, and exploring. Though not intended for off road use, one could probably go trail riding because of the sturdy design. Using a small 2.5 hp

engine,

A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

FLAT BOTTOM JON BOAT PLANS Fisherman who like to work the shallow backwaters and weed patches on lakes and rivers will find this flat-bottom scow-type boat an ideal craft. Although the boat is only 12 ft. long, its wide, flat bottom provides more usable space than most round or V-bottom boats of similar size. Low-cost, readily available materials are used

throughout.

FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

SMALL SCOOTER PLANS WITH GAS ENGINE This scooter is a simple, sit down style. It's a lot of fun for keeping up with go karts, tooling around the neightborhood, and exploring. Though not intended for off road use, one could probably go trail riding because of the sturdy design. Using a small 2.5 hp

engine,

HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

SMALL SCOOTER PLANS WITH GAS ENGINE This scooter is a simple, sit down style. It's a lot of fun for keeping up with go karts, tooling around the neightborhood, and exploring. Though not intended for off road use, one could probably go trail riding because of the sturdy design. Using a small 2.5 hp

engine,

HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

LAWN MOWER TRAILER

You need to build a lawn mower trailer. This kind of garden utility trailer is a great little thing to have around the house for hauling dirt, rocks, kids, etc. Without one, the usefulness of your lawn mower is surely limited. It would cost about three times as much to get similar features in a commercial cart, and you can cut building costs

in

A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

25 FT LUXURIOUS CABIN CRUISER Large cabin cruiser boat, measuring 25 feet. Although this section describes the building of a sedan cruiser, this particular hull, with a few changes in the cabin construction, is readily adaptable to a sport fisher, express cruiser or utility boat.

HORIZONTAL BANDSAW

Any 1/2-hp. motor will run the machine. Any standard 12” hacksaw blade can be used in it. In speed, accuracy, and capacity, the saw rivals even big commercial machines. It will cut stock of any size and shape up to 3” high and 4” wide. In tests, it proved so precise it 3 PIECE PORTABLE ROWBOAT WHEN the three sections are taken apart and nested, this 12-ft. rowboat occupies a space only 6 1/2 ft. long, and by virtue of its thin plywood construction is so light that one man can easily stow it on top of his car, using a suitable cradle to hold it. TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and FLAT BOTTOM JON BOAT PLANS Fisherman who like to work the shallow backwaters and weed patches on lakes and rivers will find this flat-bottom scow-type boat an ideal craft. Although the boat is only 12 ft. long, its wide, flat bottom provides more usable space than most round or V-bottom boats of similar size. Low-cost, readily available materials are used

throughout.

HOME MADE ARC WELDING GUN Category. You can spot weld, tack weld and burn holes in metal with this welding gun you can make yourself. AFTER YOU BUILD this arc-spot welder, you'll find that you can spot weld sheet metal without a back up, also tack weld, and burn holes in sheet metal faster than you can drill them. And, as you use the gun, you'll discover many more jobs LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

SMALL SCOOTER PLANS WITH GAS ENGINE This scooter is a simple, sit down style. It's a lot of fun for keeping up with go karts, tooling around the neightborhood, and exploring. Though not intended for off road use, one could probably go trail riding because of the sturdy design. Using a small 2.5 hp

engine,

HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. FREE BUILDING PLANS AND FUN PROJECTS Build a Utility Cart like a Mule Plans. These plans are for a utility cart with a dump function on the bed. Build a Concrete Block Brick Maker Plan. Build a Electric ALL OUR VINTAGE PROJECTS CATEGORIES Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

POWER BOATS

Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound! PLYWOOD ROWBOAT PLANS Sail Boats. These are two plans for rowboat. The first uses one sheet of plywood to build the whole thing, and the second is another traditional row boat. From the plywood plans: THIS 11-foot hull will cost you only $35 to build and comes out of a single sheet of plywood. CONVERT RADIO TO SHORTWAVE RADIO Here is the most inexpensive route to short-wave listening—the conversion of a table model radio. JUST above the broadcast band exists the bustling activity of various communications services. A sweep across the dial from 1.7 to 5.5 mc will tune ship-to-shore stations, commercial telephone, weather, WWV time signals, and the 80

meter ham band.

SMALL SCOOTER PLANS WITH GAS ENGINE This scooter is a simple, sit down style. It's a lot of fun for keeping up with go karts, tooling around the neightborhood, and exploring. Though not intended for off road use, one could probably go trail riding because of the sturdy design. Using a small 2.5 hp

engine,

HOW TO CONVERT A ROWBOAT TO A SAIL BOAT Category. Sail Boats. These plans are for an add-on dagger board and sail to convert a rowboat to a sailboat. From the plans: Equipped with this inexpensive portable sail rig any rowboat becomes a sailboat. While dimensions given in Fig. 2 are for a small boat having a beam of 4 ft., the length of the thwart may be varied to suit the boat at

hand.

CONVERT A BICYCLE INTO A MOTORIZED BIKE! Category. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw these plans. All children muse to themselves (or anyone that will listen) that it would be *so cool* if bikes had motors on them. Now they can! These motorized bike plans call for a 1 hp air-cooled engine for the powerplant. They say A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. METAL SHOP | VINTAGE PROJECTS Cool and weird building plans of boats, go karts, archery, metal shop and more for your home, farm, or compound!

LAWN MOWER TRAILER

You need to build a lawn mower trailer. This kind of garden utility trailer is a great little thing to have around the house for hauling dirt, rocks, kids, etc. Without one, the usefulness of your lawn mower is surely limited. It would cost about three times as much to get similar features in a commercial cart, and you can cut building costs

in

A MINI-TANK? SIX WHEEL ATV OF FUN Category. These plans are for a six wheel drive go kart ATV vehicle, kind of like a tank! All wheels will turn, and have amazing traction. This would be great for the swamp! Have fun building experimental ATV's and be safe! The drive is on the outside of the vehicle, therefore the chain drive is fully away from the passenger

compartment.

25 FT LUXURIOUS CABIN CRUISER Large cabin cruiser boat, measuring 25 feet. Although this section describes the building of a sedan cruiser, this particular hull, with a few changes in the cabin construction, is readily adaptable to a sport fisher, express cruiser or utility boat.

HORIZONTAL BANDSAW

Any 1/2-hp. motor will run the machine. Any standard 12” hacksaw blade can be used in it. In speed, accuracy, and capacity, the saw rivals even big commercial machines. It will cut stock of any size and shape up to 3” high and 4” wide. In tests, it proved so precise it 3 PIECE PORTABLE ROWBOAT WHEN the three sections are taken apart and nested, this 12-ft. rowboat occupies a space only 6 1/2 ft. long, and by virtue of its thin plywood construction is so light that one man can easily stow it on top of his car, using a suitable cradle to hold it. TABLE TOP STEAM ENGINE The engine is a double-acting noncondensing one that exhausts directly into the air with the familiar puff-pup of a donkey engine or steam shovel. With its 1 3/4" cylinder bore and 1" piston stroke, and with 75 or 80 Ib. of steam in its boiler, the little engine will turn over at 1,500 r.p.m. Actual power will depend much on the boiler used and FLAT BOTTOM JON BOAT PLANS Fisherman who like to work the shallow backwaters and weed patches on lakes and rivers will find this flat-bottom scow-type boat an ideal craft. Although the boat is only 12 ft. long, its wide, flat bottom provides more usable space than most round or V-bottom boats of similar size. Low-cost, readily available materials are used

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HOME MADE ARC WELDING GUN Category. You can spot weld, tack weld and burn holes in metal with this welding gun you can make yourself. AFTER YOU BUILD this arc-spot welder, you'll find that you can spot weld sheet metal without a back up, also tack weld, and burn holes in sheet metal faster than you can drill them. And, as you use the gun, you'll discover many more jobs LATHE MILLING ATTACHMENT Lathe Milling Attachment By L C. MASON Milling attachment in use on 7-in. lathe for milling out parts in the manifold of a model 4-cylinder gas engine. Home | Discussion Forum

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