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  • X1 Mill Belt Drive Upgrade

    X1 Mill Belt Drive Upgrade

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    Neil Wyatt

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    John McPhee used 3D printed pulleys to perform a belt drive upgrade on his X1 mill. His article describing the upgrade appears in Model Engineer & Workshop, Vol. 234, No. 4762, March 2025. You can download John’s STL files for printing your own pulleys from this page, together with the OpenScad files that produced them.…

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  • Important Announcement: Model Engineer & Workshop

    Important Announcement: Model Engineer & Workshop

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    Neil Wyatt

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    After nearly 35 years, Model Engineer and Model Engineers’ Workshop will be combined to create an exciting new magazine, Model Engineer & Workshop. The new magazine will feature increased pagination, enabling us to cover the full breadth of our incredible hobby—from steam power to gas turbines and from treadle lathes to CNC milling, and beyond.…

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  • We are saddened to report the death of Mrs Cherry Hill

    We are saddened to report the death of Mrs Cherry Hill

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    Model Engineer Editor

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    Mrs Cherry Hill, née Hinds, died peacefully on Tuesday, December 3rd. Our sincere condolences go to her sister, Ro, her family, and her many friends in the model engineering community. Cherry was arguably the finest model engineer we have seen. The funeral will be held at 12.15pm on Monday 6th January at Worcester Crematorium. All are…

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  • Getting The Most From Your Brushless Mill Part 5 – Fitting Keys to a Vice

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    JasonB

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    One topic that crops up fairly regularly on the forum is clocking the fixed jaw of a vice true to the X-Axis with many finding it a lengthy process and then once they do eventually get the vice clocked true they are reluctant to remove it to make full use of the milling machine. One…

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  • The Workings of a Griptru Chuck

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    Neil Wyatt

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    We had some comments that the archive article in MEW 344 was rather difficult to read. Many thanks to reader David Frith for re-scanning the article in question and putting it through OCR. Here’s the text: Allan Jeeves discloses the secrets of the Griptru chuck. Self centring 3-jaw chucks are an innovation of the 19th…

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  • Cast Your Vote in the 2024 Stevenson Trophy Competition

    Cast Your Vote in the 2024 Stevenson Trophy Competition

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    Neil Wyatt

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    We have had an excellent ‘crop’ of entries for this year’s Stevenson Trophy – the workshop equipment competition where readers get to choose the winner yourselves. In fact, we had so many entries, that we have had to strictly apply the 500-word limit and limit the number of photographs (entries with fewer words got an…

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  • Getting The Most From Your Brushless Mill Feeds & Speeds Part 2

    Getting The Most From Your Brushless Mill Feeds & Speeds Part 2

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    JasonB

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    In the previous part of this article I showed how a change in approach from the traditional to one of using shallow but fast cuts can improve how face/shell mills perform on hobby size machines. This time I will show how a change of insert can further improve finish, speed up the machining time and…

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  • Getting The Most From Your Brushless Mill Feeds & Speeds Part 1

    Getting The Most From Your Brushless Mill Feeds & Speeds Part 1

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    JasonB

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    IntroductionAs I mentioned in the previous article some posts on Model Engineer Forum prompted me to dosome test cuts and confirm if what I have been advocating was the best approach to using insertshell and face milling cutters with bench top hobby mills. The Problems. The traditional approach has generally been to run at a…

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  • The John Stevenson Trophy 2024

    The John Stevenson Trophy 2024

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    Neil Wyatt

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    Readers and Forum Members are invited to enter the Model Engineers’ Workshop competition that puts practicality and function ahead of appearance. Many readers and forum members remember the late John Stevenson. As well as being a contributor to MEW, John was known for his larger-than life presence on the Model Engineer forum and his willingness…

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  • 3d Printed Parts for Roger Froud’s Cutting Oil Delivery System

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    Neil Wyatt

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    use the link below to download Roger Froud’s files that accompany his cutting oil system, featured in issue 339 of Model Engineers’ Workshop. From the article: In essence, the system is nothing more than a simplified Ewins type steam oil lubrication pump which is activated by a snail cam and spring mechanism. The motor driven…

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