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

Electronic eyes are watching your tax returns
94
United States Internal Revenue Service, Public administration (Computer use), Electronic data processing
Feedback from the owners: 1966 Galaxie, impala
100
Ford Motor Co, Automobiles
What's your fishing IQ?
104
Fishing
New Miss B!
106
Hydroplanes
Doctor of spinning wheels
110
Spinning wheels
Pour your own pitch block
154
Propellers (Maintenance and repair)
Bargain boat horn
156
Boat horns
Stow-aboard tool kit for outboards
158
Boats and boating (Equipment), Tools
Stone-age emergency brake
161
Brakes, Automobile
Add the charm of a cupola
162
Cupolas

I docked in space
114
Orbital rendezvous (Space flight), Space flight simulators
Darts, Paul Bunyan size
118
Ax throwing, Lumberjacks
Caution! genius at play
120
California Institute of Technology, College students, Practical jokes
'66 boats: it's a catch-up year
126
Boats and boating, Motor boats
Floating down the river in a house
129
Houseboats
How to buy a good used boat
132
Boats, Used
Cypress Gardens driver tells: how to rig your ski boat
138
Motor boats (Equipment), Water skiing
Antique outboards too frisky to retire
142
Outboard motors, Motor boats
Unsinkable, high-powered rescue
146
United States Coast Guard (Boats), Lifeboats, life rafts, etc
PM's platform boat
148
Boatbuilding, Boats and boating
Up-dated bow fires caps and corks
167
Bow and arrow
Dish-pan apartments for mosquito eaters
170
Birdhouses
Trouble testers for photographers
171
Photography (Equipment), Testing equipment
Reproduce this prized antique on your lathe
176
Spinning wheels, Woodworking (Projects)
How to work a spinning wheel
182
Spinning, Spinning wheels
What you should know about wheel alignment
186
Automobiles (Springs and suspension, Wheels)
Make yourself a shrink plate
192
Metals (Cold working)
Add an electric brake to your saw
194
Electric control, Saws and sawing (Equipment)
Self-reading O.D. shop gauge
196
Gages
Electronic ignition takes to the water
200
Marine engines (Ignition)

Common terms and phrases