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 New Boring and Facing Head. • Graham Meek presents his latest design for an advanced boring and facing head. There are six sheets of figures accompanying the series, and two will appear in each instalment.

Using Division Plates • Stub Mandrel looks at using division plates for indexing, and an approach to making custom plates for awkward numbers of divisions.

Fitting core plugs

Make a sensitive drilling attachment Part 2 • Pete Barker completes 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.

Alternative Designs for Headstock Steadies • Chris Gill shares two ways of helping make sure long work extending from the back of the headstock is handled safely.

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

The Creality K1-Max AI • Neil Wyatt relates his experiences with the fused filament deposition machine he demonstrated at this year's Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition.

NEWS from the World of Engineering

Upgrades to an Optimum tu2004V Lathe Part 1 • Ron Sharp in Australia downsized after a house move. He recounts his experiences with his Optimum lathe.

TOAD5 for CNC Control • Following on from the last issue's profile of EaztCNC, Kusti Nyholm describes the latest iteration of his TOAD CNC hardware.

Scribe a line • YOUR CHANCE TO TALKTO US!

Readers’Tips • Reinforcing Cardboard

Compact Dividing Head Part 5 • Chris Hallaway designed and made his Compact Dividing Head (CDH) about thirty years ago for use with hobby size milling machines.

Lathe Cabinet Lighting • Mike Joseph explains howto use 12-volt LED strips for workshop lighting.

Eight Ways to Get More Out of Your Workshop

Addendum modification for involute gears • Jacques Maurel explores the theory behind the gear modifications used in his earlier articles about the Filengrene gear design software.

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