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.

Model Engineer & Workshop

SMOKE RINGS

Modifying a Large Fixed Steady • John Cuckson modifies a steady to fit a Colchester Chipmaster Lathe

5 inch Gauge East African Railways Class 28 “Mvita” • Jeremy Buck introduces a powerful meter-gauge locomotive and Basil Ryder's 5” gauge model.

A Suds Problem • Routine maintenance uncovered a number of related problems for Laurie Leonard to solve.

IMLEC 2025 The Results • We bring you the results of this year's International Model Locomotive Competition.

PART 19 The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine • Doug Hewson continues with the cylinders of his BR Standard Class 4. 155 of these locomotives, known as Moguls, were built for British Railways.

SPOT and FACING CUTTERS • These articles by Geometer (Ian Bradley) were written seventy years ago. While they contain much good advice; they also contain references to things that may be out of date or describe practices or materials that we would not use today either because much better ways are available of for safety reasons. These articles are offered for their historic interest and because they may inspire more modern approaches as well as reminding us how our hobby was practised in the past.

Taking a Tiger to the Model Engineer Exhibition • In 2013, Gerard Dean brought his quarter-ton model tank half-way around the world.

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

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

PART 19 A Tandem Compound Mill Engine • David Thomas builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4767.

Book Review

PART 1 Coventry Die Head Grinding Gauges • Peter King describes a gauge for use when jig grinding the ‘throat’ and top face of Coventry die head chasers (the cutting inserts used to form threads).

My Milling Machine and I • Rod Jenkins tells the tale of his Sharp Mk. II horizontal/ vertical milling machine, from Town Bent Engineering.

A locomotive Lifting Table • Martin Gearing remembers a lifting table that also had an attachment for rotating the loco.

PART 16 A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 ½ Inch Gauge • Gerald Martyn builds a locomotive he can lift. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4767

On the Wire • News from the world of engineering

Readers’ Tips • We have £30 in gift vouchers courtesy of engineering suppliers Chester Machine Tools for each month's ‘Top Tip’. Email your workshop tips to meweditor@mortons.co.uk marking them ‘Readers Tips’, and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no more than 400 words and a picture or drawing. Don't forget to include your address! Every month we'll choose a winner for the Tip of the Month and they will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit www.chesterhobbystore.com to plan how to spend yours!

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