Mechanics for young America; how to build boats, water motors, wind mills, searchlight, electric burglar alarm, ice boat ..etc.; the directions are plain and completeReprinted from Popular mechanics . Fig. 5.—Folding Chair Sleigh Closed desired. When the chair is lifted the sup-ports slip from the notches on the side bars POPULAR MECHANICS. 51 and fall on the runner bars. The chair isthen folded up so that it can be carried by;i small boy. With regular metal hingesand light timbers a very handsome chaircan be constructed that will also afford anornamental lawn chair for summer. THE TOBAGGAX SL
Mechanics for young America; how to build boats, water motors, wind mills, searchlight, electric burglar alarm, ice boat ..etc.; the directions are plain and completeReprinted from Popular mechanics . Fig. 5.—Folding Chair Sleigh Closed desired. When the chair is lifted the sup-ports slip from the notches on the side bars POPULAR MECHANICS. 51 and fall on the runner bars. The chair isthen folded up so that it can be carried by;i small boy. With regular metal hingesand light timbers a very handsome chaircan be constructed that will also afford anornamental lawn chair for summer. THE TOBAGGAX SLED. When the snow is very deep a toboggansled is the thing for real sport. The run- and it is wonderful how much skill can beattained in their use. Any boy with a littlemechanical ingenuity can-make a pair ofskis (pronounced skees). They can be madefrom two barrel staves. Select staves ofstraight grained wood. Sharpen the ends ofeach and score each end by cutting groovesin the wood, as shown in the cut, Fig. 7. Apocket knife or small gouge will suffice for. =&? ^ Fig. 6.— The Toboggan ners of the ordinary sled break through thecrust of the deep snow, blocking the prog-ress, and spoiling the fun. The toboggansled, with its broad, smooth bottom, glidesalong over the soft surface with perfectease. To make the toboggan sled, secure twoboards each ten feet long and one foot wideand so thin that they can be easily the boards beside each other and jointhem together with cross sticks. Screw theboards to the cross stick from the bottomand be sure that the heads of the screwsare buried deep enough in the wood to notprotrude, so that the bottom will present anabsolutely smooth surface to the two side bars to the top of the crosssticks and screw them firmly. In some in-stances the timbers are fastened together bystrings, a groove being cut in the bottom ofthe boards so as to keep the strings fromprotruding and being ground to pieces. Afterthe side bars are secure
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