The Sight of a Lifetime I am a long time resident of Cronulla and hold a Seniors Card. I’ve had an eventful life thus far. Born in the late 1920’s I plan kicking on for a while yet. I’ve extracted the following from my lengthy memoir which I hope to publish one day. The following…
Richard writes: I was very interested in Pete Barker’s article in the latest MEW (No.287). Some 55 years ago I had the same problem with my Super7B. J.A. Radford went to very complicated and difficult to achieve lengths to overcome the same problem. The ‘narrow guide’ principle was reckoned to be the best way of…
Before you start to say ‘Oh no not another gimmicky toolpost' let me state that this design has now been in use by me for a long time and by friends or other model engineers in this country and abroad for almost ten years. l have yet to hear of anyone who has tried the…
A recent post on ME was by someone looking for details for a steam lorry. We are pleased to republish Robin Dyer’s 1976 series from Model Engineer on the Clayton Undertype Steam Wagon to 2 inch scale. www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/clayton.pdf This remains copyright MyTimeMedia and Robin Dyer, please share a link to this page rather than the…
Two Useful Workshop Phone Applications As explained below, these apps are not available through app stores but source code and debug versions of the Android and Windows Phone installers are available from www.model-engineer.co.uk/apps. This note also explains how to build the apps or derivatives that might be based on the code. App Installers Source Code…
Yes, this is a rendered 3D model of the boring head, not the real thing! If you want to find out more about Alibre Atom3D and the free offer for Model Enginbeers' Workshop readers visit http://model-engineer.co.uk/Alibre You can download the article about the boring head HERE. You can download the plan for the boring head…
For full details, please see the article in issue 21 of MEW, January February 1994, available to digital subscribers in the archive. Download individual pages as jpg images (right-click and view): Download sheet 1 as a PDF here. Download sheet 2 as a PDF here. Well, that’s the complete set of free plans given out…
Further details can be found in MEW issue 20, November/December 1993. Note that a digital subscription is needed to access the archive of back issues. Right-click these thumbnails to view whole pages: Alternatively, you can download the two sheets of the plan as PDFs: Side 1Side 2 As always, many thanks to Nick Farr for…
I first bought my Unimat 3 nearly thirty years ago and took no time at all to become thoroughly disenchanted with the O-ring drive belt system. Although small, the lathe itself was quite evidently capable of some good work, but the irritation of disentangling the drive belt from itself, and all too frequently replacing them…
