Model Engineers' Workshop

Model Engineers' Workshop is the ideal workshop companion for all hobby engineers. Model Engineers' Workshop shines a spotlight on the tools and techniques used by model makers, light engineers, restorers and customisers and those who like making and modding their own tools. You'll find readers' tips, reviews of workshop equipment as well as articles on restoring old tools and making your own as well as the latest new technologies, techniques and materials. Model Engineers' Workshop magazine publishes 12 great issues a year.

Model Engineers' Workshop

On the Editor's Bench

A Rotary Table From Automotive Flywheels • Ken Lonie makes a large rotary table using an unusual source of material.

Angle Setting for Bench Grinder • Austin Hughes explains how to easily achieve accurate angles, particularly for grinding lathe tools.

Rounding Things Off • Howard Lewis reviews his experiences of using the ‘Repton’ radius turning attachment.

BEGINNERS WORKSHOP

Tales from the Workshop • Nevil Shute Norway

Scribe a line • YOUR CHANCE TO TALK TO US!

Boring from the Lathe Tailstock • Keith Keen finds an alternative way to carry out hole boring in the lathe.

Theasby's Wrinkles • From the pen of Geoff Theasby, we have two interesting ideas for keeping things organised workshop.

Positioning work on the rotary table • Essential reading for beginners and valuable to old hands, this series by the late John Smith shares some of his wealth of skill and experience from over half a century in hobby engineering.

Down the Drain • Laurie Leonard tackled what should have been a minor domestic repair but found himself re-learning a valuable lesson about stainless steels.

“Filengrène” – Software for Gear Design Part1 • To help you with gear design, with neither calculations nor charts, Jacques Maurel proposes you use this free software designed for industrial use.

Model Engineers'Workshop and Model Engineer at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition • More news about the Society of Model an Experimental Engineers at the forthcoming exhibition at Warwickshire Event Centre Thursday 12thto Sunday 15th October 2023

Set Up Your Lathe to Turn True • Pete Barker makes a firm foundation for his Myford and installs the lathe without using an expensive precision level.

From the Model Engineer Archive

NEWS from the World of Engineering • Chester UK announce their next Open Week.

The Airbrush Company Courses

Setting up for Milling a Compound Angle • R. Finch explores the mathematics behind setting up complex angles for milling or sharpening.

A Briquette Splitter for Live Steamers

Bob's Better Bevels –Postscript, part 2 • Bob Reeve dives into the big box of better bevels that resulted from his experiments. Continued from last issue.