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

Solving Data Corruption In A Digital Scale Readout Display • Fergus Malcolm recounts his experiences and how he solved a notorious issue with entry level digital scales.

A Visit to the SMEE at Marshall House. • The Editor paid a visit to the home of the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers.

More simple yet effective fly press tooling • Following on from an article over a decade ago, the late John Smith continued to find that the fly press performed an essential role in his workshop

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.

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A Bell Centre Finder • If you don't have this essential workshop accessory already, follow Paul Tiney's guide and you will wonder how you coped without it.

Best Of British Magazine finds exciting new home at Mortons Media • Best of British Magazine, the nation's favourite nostalgia magazine, has joined the stable of titles at leading publisher and events company Mortons Media Group.

Readers' Tips

An A to Z of Metals – G to P. • This short series by Neil Wyatt aims to clarify some of the technical terms you are likely to come across in Model Engineers Workshop and elsewhere, with the focus on terms relating to metals and their properties. It uses material from his Model Engineers Workshop Dictionary.

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From the Archives

Micro-milling with a home-made contraption • Mike Tilby describes the construction of a scratch built machine tool for high-speed milling.

A New Boring and Facing Head. Part 3 • Graham Meek presents his latest design for an advanced boring and facing head. There are six sheets of figures accompanying the series, and two appear in each instalment.

Producing Discs Without Holes in the Centre • Keith Keen has devised a trepanning arrangement for cutting out discs from sheet material.

A 3D printed Watchmarker's Vertical Slide. • Adrian Rawson demonstrates a surprising application for 3D printing.