Model Engineer & 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

SMOKE RINGS

Milling in the Lathe • Up until the Millennium, milling machines were not a common sight in our workshops, there are still many readers that have only a lathe. Rod Jenkins shares some of his experiences.

Meet the Editor • Readers of Model Engineer may be less familiar with former Model Engineers’ Workshop editor, Neil Wyatt.

A GWR Pannier Tank in 3½ Inch Gauge PART 11 Valve Gear • Gerald Martyn builds a locomotive he can lift, continued from Model Engineer issue 4761.

Readers' Tips

Casting Polyurethane Traction Engine Tyres and Strakes PART 2 • Paul Zeusche, made the strake moulds last month, to conclude he casts the strakes and completes the plain tyres.

A Miniature Oil Can • Peter Evans describes a charming oil can which can be made as either a model accessory or as a bit of fun for practical jokers.

PART 5 Working on the Lathe: Drilling and Boring • In this instalment of our beginner’s series, Neil Raine looks at stability and drilling in the lathe.

POSTBAG • The Editor welcomes letters for these columns, but they must be brief. Photographs are invited which illustrate points of interest raised by the writer

Oblique drilling

How, Not, to Build a Locomotive… for Someone Else PART 2 • Jim Woods and Jonathan Bregazzi conclude the story of their two 2-4-0 Beyer Peacock tank locomotives with details of the completion of Loch.

Extracting a Broken Stud • Alan Donovan makes a jig to aid the precise drilling out of a seized bolt.

On the Wire • News from the world of engineering

The Stationary Steam Engine PART 67 The Evidence, continued • Ron Fitzgerald tells the story of the development of the stationary steam engine, this issue evidence of the background to the first Newcastle locomotive.

Making Small Threads • Stew Hart has designed a series of useful accessories to make the production of small threads less fraught.

A Tandem Compound Mill Engine PART 14 • David Thomas cuts the bevel gears for Arnold Throp’s Corliss Mill Engine design.

A Workshop Diary PART 2

Club Diary • Please send your events for Club Diary to meweditor@mortons.co.uk

A Four Inch Garrett Agricultural Engine • Alan Barnes visited Chris Barham to see his magnificent 4-inch to the foot (1:3) model traction engine, Archie.

Club News • Geoff Theasby reports on the latest news from the clubs.

The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine PART 14 • Doug Hewson continues his design looking at the valve gear expansion links. A standardized version of the LMS Ivatt-designed Class 4 loco, 155 of these locos, known as Moguls, were built for British Rail.