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

Weird new world of Old MacDonald
112
Harvesting machinery
Turning reproductions into antiques
116
Antiques (Reproductions), Furniture (Finishes and finishing)
Twelve ways to attach legs
122
Furniture
Doctoring a dunked motor
125
Outboard motors (Maintenance and repair)
Ultimate easel
130
Easels

Cadillac owners claim you get a lot to like
78
Automobiles
Wildest railroad in the West
82
Railroads (Mexico)
Can you find water with a forked stick?
88
Dowsing
Bobbing on the Apple River
92
Aquatic sports, Apple River (Barron County-Saint Croix County, Wis.)
Man who can move mountains
96
Robert Gilmour Le Tourneau; 1888-1969, Excavating machinery
Take-along boats for vacation fun
104
Boats and boating
Owners report on Fairlane's first year pleasures, plagues
108
Automobiles

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