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.
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LNER A3 CLASS FOR 5" GAUGE • Order in the name and livery of your choice
Make a Myford lever-action tailstock attachment • Pete Barker builds a useful drilling accessory for Seven Series lathes using bar stock. The design is adaptable to fit almost any other lathe.
Beginner's Workshop VALVES
An Effective Edge Finder • Fergus Malcolm makes an aid to accuracy that also helps tackle the curse of round column mill head adjustment
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.
Artful Dodge #3-Always make a spare • 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.
Extending the versatility of a 'Parrot Vice' - Part 2 • R. Finch adds some extras to his 'universal' vice.
Safely Turning Long Objects in A Lathe • Brett Meacle shows how to secure long workpieces and avoid accidents including how to make a spindle steady to help.
Readers' Tips Extend Battery Life
Digital read outs
Centring a Rotary Table on a Mill • Malcolm Tierney describes his approach to simplifying a task that can be a bit of a chore.
From the Model Engineer Archive • Each issue in 2023 will feature some historic content from Model Engineer relevant to workshops, tools or techniques. This page from Model Engineer Volume 187, No. 4160 is Neil Read's report on tooling at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition held at Castle Donington in 2001.
A Multi-Tool Holder for Grinding Rotary Riveting Heads - Part 1 • After making his rotary riveting tool, Will Doggett thought that he should also make the riveting head for the tool as he had made everything else apart from the thrust bearing the screws and nuts. To achieve this led to making a pair of toolpost holders for his multi tool.
NEWS from the World of Engineering
Workshop Photography Part 2 • We can't all be professional photographers or even access the most sophisticated of photographic equipment, but there are many simple things we can do to improve the quality of our workshop images.
Adapting Schaublin Collets for a Pultra Lathe • Rod Jenkins tackles the challenge of cutting an Internal 09.83mm x 0.833p 45°/5° Buttress Thread