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Lionel Pullum’s Minilathe Tailstock Seals

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Neil Wyatt

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5 August 2021

Download the files to accompany this article here:
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MEW Screw Size Chart

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Neil Wyatt

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25 May 2021

www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/screw_size_chart.pdf
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Model Engineers’ Workshop Drill Size Chart

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Neil Wyatt

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9 December 2020

This useful chart shows imperial and metric equivalents, as well as offering suggested tapping drill sizes for a wide range of threads. Download links: ChartAChartBChartC Many thanks to the ‘Man Who Can Scan’ – Nick Farr – for sending us good quality scans of his copy (we don’t have an electronic version on file). Nick…
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Metric Myford Threads

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Neil Wyatt

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15 March 2020

The literature on cutting metric threads on a Myford 7 Series lathe refers to the use of a 21 tooth change wheel which is now effectively extinct. I have prepared a table showing gear trains for all the ISO metric series threads in my copy of the Dormer Tap and Die Handbook using the readily-available…
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Apollo 13 Re-Entry

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Sub Mandrel

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23 January 2020

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…
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Wide Guide

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Neil Wyatt

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27 November 2019

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…
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Three-Way Toolpost by David Lammas

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Neil Wyatt

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3 October 2019

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…
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Clayton Undertype Steam Wagon to 2 inch scale.

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Neil Wyatt

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26 July 2019

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…
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Chris Gills Phone Apps

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Neil Wyatt

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4 March 2019

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…
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The MEW Boring Head

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Neil Wyatt

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12 October 2018

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…
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