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 Engineer & Workshop

SMOKE RINGS

A Simple Boring Head • Alan Jackson describes a simple but accurate boring head design that has the advantage of not requiring the need to machine any dovetails.

Review: Amadeal AMAB210E • Jason Ballamy reviews a lathe that comes factory fitted with an electronic lead screw. Does this finally spell the end of change gears?

A Sensitive Drill • Dave Woolven shares a handy accessory for drilling small diameter holes from the lathe tailstock.

FACING AND COUNTERSINKING • These articles by Geometer (lan Bradley) were written seventy years ago. While they contain much good advice; they also contain references to things that may be out of date or describe practices or materials that we would not use today either because much better ways are available of for safety reasons. These articles are offered for their historic interest and because they may inspire more modern approaches as well as reminding us how our hobby was practised in the past.

The Yield Point Controversy

The 2025 NAME Rally • The 2025 Annual NAME (Northern Association of Model Engineers) Rally was held in July. Brian Lamb was present to makeaphotographic record of the event.

On the Wire • News from the world of engineering

A GWR Pannier Tank in 3½ Inch Gauge PART 17 • Gerald Martyn starts a detailed description of his approach to platework using laser-cut parts.

The Echills Wood Standard Gauge Rally 2025 • John Arrowsmith visits this popular annual event held in the Midlands.

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

THE BRADFORD CUP AND STEVENSON TROPHY 2025

Readers' Tips • We have £30 in gift vouchers courtesy of engineering suppliers Chester Machine Tools for each month's 'Top Tip'. Email your workshop tips to meweditor@mortons.co.uk marking them 'Readers Tips', and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no more than 400 words and a picture or drawing. Don’t forget to include your address! Every month we'll choose a winner for the Tip of the Month and they will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit www.chesterhobbystore.com to plan how to spend yours!

Precision Measurement of Squareness PART 1 • Mechanical engineering frequently involves measurement of angles. Warren Williams discusses the precision measurement of the most important angle in engineering, that of 90 degrees.

Book Review

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

The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine PART 20 • Doug Hewson moves onto the valve liners and their bobbins.

A Tandem Compound Mill Engine PART 20 • With the Cylinders and valve motion complete David Thomas moves on to the final stages of Arnold Throp’s Corliss mill engine. In this instalment he starts work on the air pump.

Coventry Die Head Grinding Gauges PART 2 • Peter King completes his reverse engineered gauge for use when jig grinding the ‘throat’ and top face of Coventry die head chasers (the cutting inserts used to form threads).

Home Foundry Work • Paul Tiney offers...