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 Engineers' Workshop

SMOKE RINGS • On the Editor’s Bench

An EMCO Compact 5 Screwcutting Clutch PART 1 • Over the years Graham Meek has adapted his screwcutting clutch design to several different types of lathe. He found himself with a final design challenge and the solution will greatly benefit Compact 5 users.

A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 ½ Inch Gauge PART 12 Brakes • Gerald Martyn builds a locomotive he can lift. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4763.

On the Wire • News from the world of engineering

Readers’ Tips

A Leather Belt-Joining Jig for a Threshing Machine • Ian Couchman reports on how his model threshing machine fared when used ‘in the wild’ at various live steam shows and describes a jig he made to join its leather belts.

Setting Up a Variable Speed Motor Drive • For many years the IMO Jaguar Cub has been a favourite inverter drive for small workshops, but it’s been replaced. Joe Jordan of TRANSWAVE Converters introduces its successor.

Quick Notes from the Workshop • Punches, scribers and nail punches. What’s the point?

The Midlands Garden Rail Show 2025 • John Arrowsmith reports on the show for a hobby that ‘fills the gap’ between table-top railways and the passenger hauling gauges.

A Resin Exhaust Shroud • Marcus Bowman tackled an unusual design challenge that led him to learn a lot more about using 3D printing resins.

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

POST BAG • The Editor welcomes letters for these columns, but they must be brief. Photographs are invited which illustrate points of interest raised by the writer

My Life in Miniature! • Mark Noel describes the fun to be had applying model engineering methods to the tiny world of dolls’ houses.

Working on the Lathe: Drilling and Boring PART 6 • In this instalment of our beginner’s series, Neil Raine looks at using the lathe for boring holes.

The Stationary Steam Engine PART 68 Technical Details of the Newcastle Locomotive • Ron Fitzgerald concludes his sweeping and thoroughly researched story of the development of the stationary steam engine with a review of the facts we know about the Newcastle Locomotive.

A Tandem Compound Mill Engine PART 15 • David Thomas builds Arnold Throp’s model of a Corliss mill engine. Continued from Model Engineer & Workshop issue 4763.

The BR Standard 2-6-0 Class 4 Tender Engine PART 15 • Doug Hewson takes a break from the valve gear and continues by looking at boiler construction for this standardised version of the LMS Ivatt-designed Class 4 in 5” gauge. 155 of these locomotives, known as Moguls, were built for British Railways.

3D PRINTED METAL PARTS • Having a benchtop 3D printer that will produce metal parts is still in the future for hobbyists, but as Neil Wyatt finds, we can now access this industrial technology to produce parts to our own designs.

Further DRILLING METHODS

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