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 get a good body job
79
Automobiles (Bodies, Maintenance and repair)
Amazing new Mowbot
83
Lawn mowers
RAP: an old naval shell with a new kick
84
Projectiles, Vietnamese War, 1957-1975 (Equipment and supplies)
Biggest, fastest flying boat yet!
88
United States Navy (Boats and boating), Hydrofoil boats
How to save money when you finance a car
94
Automobiles (Purchasing), Installment plan
PM tests
132
Chrysler's Sport Fury takes to the water
Plan a head
140
Boats and boating (Toilet facilities)
How much to throw snow?
146
Snow blowers, throwers, etc
We put it all on our living room wall
150
Storage walls
Build these musical centerpieces
154
Christmas music, Table decoration

High-pressure medicine
99
Hyperbaric oxygenation
Traffic cop of the sky
104
Jim KNOETGEN, Air traffic controllers (Persons)
Time of your life
108
Watches
Across the Bitterroots with Lewis and Clark, by snowmobile
114
Snowmobiles and snowmobiling, Trails
World's smallest color TV.
118
Color television, Television receivers
Caramba! a Mexican Borgward?
124
Automobile industry (Mexico), Automobiles (Manufacture)
Faster than a speeding bullet!
130
Space flight (Meteor hazards)
Build this R/C gasser
158
Model cars (Radio control)
Control your gasser, plane or boat with this full house kit
162
Radio control
Complete guide to weatherstripping
164
Weatherstripping
Filing on a lathe
174
Lathes
New wood planer attachment for your Unimat lathe
179
Lathes, Planes and planing (Equipment)
New in electronics
188
Electronic equipment

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