Popular Mechanics

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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.
 

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Contents

How to aircondition a bathroom darkroom
14
Air conditioning equipment
Five-tweeter speaker gives wide-angle sound
60
Loudspeakers
Mobile entertaining indoors and out
69
Furniture, Woodworking (Projects)
Mobile cook-center
72
Serving carts
Roll-around wet bar with running water
78
Bars for the home
How to get great pictures in the great outdoors
126
Nature photography, Animals (Photographs)
Bombs on Main Street
132
Hazardous substances (Transportation)
Those color-TV tuning buttons: what they do, and don't do
137
Television receivers (Tuning)
Garden tractor you can build from a kit
142
Tractors
Will clean-air cops confiscate your car? requirements in California
144
Automobiles (Pollution control devices)

Mobile hi-fi for music outdoors or in
82
Audio systems (Cabinets)
How to build retaining walls
86
Retaining walls
How to repair aluminum storms and screens
90
Windows (Maintenance and repair)
How to lay out and pour concrete slabs
92
Concrete slabs
How to fix your dishwasher
96
Dishwashers (Maintenance and repair)
Big-scale thrills at small-scale prices
102
Airplane models
Custom rod to fly with
107
Fishing tackle, Fly fishing
PM owners report
120
Audi 100
Snappy little two-seater you can build yourself
124
Airplanes, Light
New electric kicker for a new bass catcher
148
Boats and boating (Electric equipment)
Boat booster for $10
151
Boats and boating (Transportation)
Low-cost. no-squint meter kit reads volts, ohms. amps
152
Electric meters
Heath's quietest cassette deck
154
Tape recorders and recording
Steadyrest for lathe milling attachment
156
Lathes, Milling machines
With this miterbox you always saw in one direction
158
Miter boxes, gages, etc
Charming grandfather clock from a kit
162
Clocks
For the life of your engine: don't forget the filter
172
Automobile engines (Filters)

Common terms and phrases