Popular Mechanics

Front Cover
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
 

Browse all issues

Contents

This year your studded snow tires may be illegal!
36
Tires, Automobile
Snowthrowers: winter fun machines
50
Snow blowers, throwers, etc
Carriage chuck mount for your lathe
60
Chucks (Machine work), Lathes
300 MPH monorail started with a broomstick
81
Monorail railroads
Ordeal on Beartooth Mountain
84
Snowmobiles and snowmobiling (Accidents and injuries), Snowstorms
Smile, you're on four channels now!
130
Audio systems
Keep your emission control system working
138
Motor vehicles (Pollution control devices)
Tall, slim and showy: open hi-fi rack
142
Shelves and racks
Build this pedestal grinder for $40
144
Grinding machines
Instant family-room theater
148
Recreation rooms

Russia's MiG-23: unbeatable?
90
Airplanes, Military (Soviet Union)
PM owners report
96
Honda 600
Slick new Scout
100
Station wagons
One million kilowatts from a mountain cave
104
Hydroelectric plants
Instant replay: TV's electronic magic
108
Videotape recorders and recording
Firefighting: better equipment for the big ones
114
Fire extinction (Equipment)
Build this low-cost winter home for your boat
119
Shelters
How to store your boat battery for the winter
120
Storage batteries (Maintenance and repair)
How to get your snowmobile ready for snow
122
Snowmobiles and snowmobiling (Maintenance and repair)
Front-wheel drive to the fore! Renault 12
126
Automobiles, Foreign

Common terms and phrases