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

Compact Dividing Head Part 1 • Chris Hallaway designed and made this Compact Dividing Head (CDH) about thirty years ago for usewith hobby size milling machines.

Tips and hints, some old, some new, some borrowed

Scribe a line YOUR CHANCE TO TALK TO US! • Readers! We want to hear from you! Drop us a line sharing your advice, questions or opinions. Why not send us a picture of your latest workshop creation, or that strange tool you found in a boot sale? Email your contributions to meweditor@mortons.co.uk.

It's Not All Tooling! • Contributor Murray Lane shares some examples of long-term projects in his workshop.

Improving A Tangential Flycutter • Howard Lewis described several versions of a tangential flycutter in MEW number 316. Since then he made a number of improvements.

Introducing Multi-Tools • Stub Mandrel gives a brief introduction to these handy devices.

Squaring the Circle • Graham Meek makes some custom gears to solve a handwheel conundrum.

NEWS from the World of Engineering

Tales from the Workshop • James C. “Uncle Jim” Crebbin

A Tilting Milling Table • Mike Cox explains how to make this useful sub-table for use with a tilting vice.

From the Model Engineer Archive • To celebrate 125 years of Model Engineer magazine and the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers, each issue in 2023 features fascinating historic content from Model Engineer relevant to workshops, tools or techniques. This month we present something a little different. It's the cover of the very first issue and the first page of Percival Marshall's introduction to his new publication, Volume 1, Issue 1, from January 1898.

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 12th to Sunday 15th October 2023

Beginner's Workshop SIMPLE SCREW ASSEMBLY

Turning small convex and concave radii • 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.

Readers’ Tips

“Filengrène” – Software for Gear Design Part 2 • To help you with gear design, with neither calculations nor charts, Jacques Maurel proposes you use this free software designed for industrial use.