Handy man's workshop and laboratory . sting skates It will be appreciated that these skates may be readily removedfrom the feet after a coast down hill, and as readily readjusted atthe top of the hill. To facilitate the use of the skates, a guiderope 5 is used. The opposite ends of this rope are secured to eyes,one in each of the skates at the forward end. When coasting, therope is grasped in one or both hands, and held taut from the eyes. —33 TWO WAYS OF IMPROVING A SLED The accompanying illustrations show how an ordinary sled maybe converted into a dirigible sled, and how it may be combinedw
Handy man's workshop and laboratory . sting skates It will be appreciated that these skates may be readily removedfrom the feet after a coast down hill, and as readily readjusted atthe top of the hill. To facilitate the use of the skates, a guiderope 5 is used. The opposite ends of this rope are secured to eyes,one in each of the skates at the forward end. When coasting, therope is grasped in one or both hands, and held taut from the eyes. —33 TWO WAYS OF IMPROVING A SLED The accompanying illustrations show how an ordinary sled maybe converted into a dirigible sled, and how it may be combinedwith a boys hand car to make a motor sled. 428 HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY THE DIRIGIBLE SLED. Unlike the ordinary sled, that is steered by digging in the heels,or dragging the feet in the snow, from one side to the other, there-by checking the speed of the sled, the sled here shown has flexiblerunners, which may be curved to one side or the other by a steer-ing bar, causing the runners to follow smoothly in the curving ;.V:. Fig. 355—A dirigible sled tracks. The sled should be builtlow and narrow, and the runnersshould extend well forward and rearward, which will materiallyadd to the speed of the sled when coasting down a hill. Fig. 355 shows an ordinary girls sled, which is made intoa flexible or dirigible sled. The top part of the runners, shown HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 429 in dotted lines, is cut off on a level with the seat and the ends arefastened together with a transverse bar a, made of iron or this bar, and fastened thereto, are bars b, one on each sideof the seat and parallel therewith. These bars are fastened to allthe standards of the sled. On the front bar is fastened a steeringlever c, which is fulcrumed by the rearwardly-extending arms ato the front part of the seat of the sled. It is now evident that
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