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 Sheet Metal Exercise • Dave Fenner built a model AEC Matador as a lock down project that involved some interesting sheet metal work.

Setting And Using A Fixed Steady • David George explains the use of this essential aid for supporting long workpieces in the lathe.

Getting the most out of your Brushless Mill. Part 1 • Jason Ballamy follows up his series on Milling for Beginners (MEW261 and subsequent odd numbered issues to MEW 279)with a series of linked articles focused on using brushless hobby mills.

Making a Screw Thread Indicator Dial • Paul Tiney made this aid to screwcutting for his long in the tooth Myford ML4.

On the Wire • NEWS from the World of Engineering

Readers' Tips

Micro-Milling With A Home-Made Contraption Part 3 • Mike Tilby continues with a discussion of micro-milling cutters themselves.

From the Archives • With over 125 years of Model Engineer magazine and nearly 35 years of Model Engineers' Workshop in our archives, there's a huge selection of fascinating and often useful ideas for the workshop to be found. These 'Quick Release Backstops' by Alan Cambridge appeared in MEW 39, December 1996. The ingenious captive dowel/cam operated by an offset screw could find applications in other projects..

An A to Z of Metals – R to Z • 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.

A Novel Cutting Oil Delivery System • Roger Froud's cutting oil system was designed for milling machines, but is adaptable for lathes as well.

Scribe a line • 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.

Solving Data Corruption In A Digital Scale Readout Display • Fergus Macolm follows up his approach to reducing corruption problems with digital scales by describing how he put his ideas into practice.

Screw Cutting Gauges A Comparative Review • The Editor takes a look at a couple of small pieces of metal.

Rebuilding Medway Queen's the paddle box fascia

Conditional Statements in Mach 3 • John McPhee offers a way to implement conditional statements for those who write their own machining programmes. Some basic knowledge of how to understand and edit G-Code is assumed.

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