Car Touch-Up Sprayer for 25c

BEFORE you buy an expensive spray gun and compressor, try an artist’s fixative atomizer, available for 10c to 25c at art and drafting supply stores, model shops, and at many hobby and craft shops. Used by artists and architects to spray their pencil and chalk drawings with fixative to prevent rubbing, this gadget can perform many small painting jobs, using only lung power.

This Novel Martin House Is Built to Resemble Zeppelin

Edited by A. NEELY HALL

BIRDS ought to appreciate this latest design in apartment houses, built to resemble a Zeppelin. To make it, secure nine pieces of one-inch white pine and saw them into 10-sided partitions as shown in the drawing below, the middle partition being 12-1/2 inches in diameter and the others tapering down to 6 inches.

Fun with an Old Spark Coil

By RAYMOND B. WAlLES

ALTHOUGH producing a spark only about three-eighths of an inch in length, an auto (Ford) spark coil can be made to produce a brilliant stream of sparks, about two inches in length, by interposing small flakes of graphite throughout the gap. This is easily accomplished by dusting flake graphite on a tacky varnish card through which are fitted two machine bolts or binding posts for contact with the secondary terminals.