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.

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SMOKE RINGS

Rotating Tailstock Chuck Adaptors • Gavin Blakeman recently decided to build an adaptor to allow a rotating chuck to be mounted on the tailstock of his lathe; he looked at a variety of sizes and drawings of larger and smaller versions can be downloaded from www.model-engineer.co.uk.

LBSC’s Toy Locomotive Identified? • Roger Backhouse has unearthed more details about a toy hot air locomotive.

THE BRADFORD CUP AND STEVENSON TROPHY 2025 • We invite entries for the two model engineering competitions that are decided by a poll of readers of Model Engineer & Workshop and members of our forum, www.model-engineer.co.uk

A Working Scale Ashpan for a Princess Royal • Clive Fenn feels that just because a complex mechanism is hidden, it’s not a reason to avoid modelling it. His problem solving required many interesting operations with other applications.

Readers' Tips

PART 14 A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 ½ Inch Gauge • Gerald Martyn builds a locomotive he can lift. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4765

On the Wire • News from the world of engineering

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

A Tandem Compound Mill Engine PART 17 • David Thomas builds Arnold Throp’s model of a Corliss mill engine. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4765.

PART 2 A Multipurpose Knurling Tool • In this instalment Jacques Maurel offers notes on machining the cut knurling parts, then moves on to internal knurling.

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

PIN AND - C-SPANNERS

Model Engineer & Workshop visits the Stafford & District Model Engineering Society • John Arrowsmith pays a visit to this club in Staffordshire, a county whose engineering heritage is particularly noted for its ceramics industry and canals.

Cheap Nasty Plastics • Patrick Hendra, Tutor for Eastleigh Young Engineers explains addresses the myth that plastics have no role to play in the home workshop.

Working on on the Lathe: Drilling and Boring PART 8 • Neil Raine concludes his series with an overview of the development of drilling and boring technology.

The Brighton Gallopers

The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine PART 17 • Doug Hewson looks at the lubrication of his BR Standard Class 2. 155 of these locomotives, known as Moguls, were built for British Railways.

Versatile Milling Table Clamps • Keith Keen designed this set of clamping jaws for holding relatively large work piece items on a milling machine table.

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