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

On the Editor’s Bench

Converting a CNC to Manual • Brian Wood explains how and why he went about fitting manual control to a computer controlled milling machine

Testing and fitting SPRINGS • Following his general article on springs, GEOMETER gives some workshop hints

Scribe a line • YOUR CHANCE TO TALK TO US!

Stan Bray 1925 – 2022

Home Made Precision Optics • This article about a couple of handy optical aids appeared in the very first issue of Model Engineers’ Workshop, summer 1990. The article was credited to a mysterious ‘Bluey’. This was a pen-name used by our founding editor, Stan Bray who so recently passed away. We are reprinting it in this issue so readers can one again enjoy his practical and enjoyable writing.

Win an English Wheel

A Thrust Measurement Rig • Keith Beaumont makes a test rig for comparing the static thrust of model i/c engines.

Readers’ Tips

Joining Metals • Stub Mandrel introduce beginners to the three main ways of joining metals

A Product of Lockdown • Laurie Leonard looked for a way to keep himself occupied during those long days of lockdown.

A DIY fixed steady • Geoff Theasby improvises a jig for a one off job.

Building A Free Pendulum Clock Part 3. • Tony Jeffree experiments with sensors and modules to make an efficient pendulum.

NEXT ISSUE

A Ride On Walker • Stan Nesbitt designed and made this device to help his wife with mobility issues

On the Wire • NEWS from the World of Hobby Engineering

A Chain Alteration Tool • Will Doggett makes some savings with a home made rotary riveting tool

Bob’s Better Bevels Part 3 • Bob Reeve looks at bevel offset calculations, starting with a simple derivation

Regrinding a Shell End Mill • Howard Lewis sharpens an inserted tooth milling cutter