Here's some advance notice for beginners and recent recruits to the hobby.
A new 100-page special will be published in a couple of weeks on the subject of 'setting up a workshop'. Aimed squarely at people with relatively little experience it offers advice on creating a workshop and kitting it out as well as reviewing and explaining many different types of machine tools.
It introduces some of the activities you may wish to pursue in your workshop and includes a few simple tools from the past pages of MEW that will be useful in a new workshop.
This is not an issue of MEW, but a stand-alone publication. It will be available as a digital edition as well as in W.H. Smiths and 'all good newsagents'.
Just hope the first 50 pages are not devoted to pictures of hinges and padlocks
Or "level the bed, mount on steel plinths, dial indicate every surface possible, immerse in acid baths to remove the manufacturers grubby marks and re-oil with special super duper lathe lotion" wear thick glasses and suspenders, carry a pocket calculator and notebook with you and spout techno jargon to confooz the dunces and carry the holy bible of tubal cain/LBSC and Lawrence sparey(a signed edition or used tissue of them would make you very popular)…just dont have fun whatever you do.
I'm having a terrible time finding good books and DVDs on model engineering. Mill on the Floss, Turn of the Screw, The Rasp, Mike Hammer, Turning Tables and Miami Vice – all completely useless.
I'm building a Britannia Loco and the instructions seem to come in a 10 volume set, neatly alphabetical but seems to digress into other topics …..a bit like this forum.