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

EazyCNC • Kusti Nyholm introduces his EazyCNC software project, and the accompanying hardware called TOAD4.

Cotters and wedges

Make a sensitive drilling attachment Part 1 • Pete Barker recreates a useful project that has stood the test of time - for 93 years. This accessory from 1929 makes drilling small holes in any lathe a breeze and not a snap. He uses nothing but the lathe itself and basic hand tools, in the spirit of the age.

Compact Dividing Head Part 4 • Chris Hallaway designed and made this Compact Dividing Head (CDH) about thirty years ago for use with hobby size milling machines.

NEWS from the World of Engineering

The compound angle problem • Nigel Beal was inspired to do a mathematical workout by R Finch’s recent article on machining a complex angle.

Mini-Lathe Gear Cover • Stub Mandrel offers a simple way of making the gear cover of a mini-lathe easily removable.

An angled mounting platform for a dividing head • Brian Wood describes his solution to improving the ergonomics of using a dividing head.

A Machinist’s Jack • Derek Lane explains a simple accessory that is easily made and has many uses.

Digital Readout Controller/Displays

Making use of abandoned cylinders.

Fifty Years of George H Thomas’ Universal Pillar Tool Part II • Warren Williams addresses the correction of errors and introduces some new developments

Scribe a line • YOUR CHANCE TO TALK TO US!

3D Scanning • The editor takes a look at the possibilities offered by 3D scanning and tries out the Creality Scan Ferret.

A Metalwork File Storage System, Part 3 • Alan Bryan completes the process of design and planning behind his file storage system.

Two Tips for the Workshop • Jaques Maurel offers a couple of interesting ideas.