Re: MEW in General:- Was-: MEW No 126

John Stevenson wrote:

Does the mag have to be only tools and projects ? That guy in his garden shed isn't
interested in making tools he won't use but would love to see how to machine a curved
shock absorber sprocket.

Believe it or not I'm on the side of this forum and the mag. It's the only mag I take as
I'm not into models as such and feel that ME is really just a train magazine nowdays.

I've never subscribed. just plodding my way through about 10 years worth
I had given a few months ago.

But "Here. Here" (or AOL) - "models" does not mean just steam
locomotives.

I'm into making "stuff" - I use a lathe, and a mill, but also
a bandsaw, a bench saw, a welder, a soldering iron, an oh!sillyscope, a
furnace, a forge and a big 'ammer -
"model engineering workshop" is a little restrictive - I can hammer a
round iron bar into a rectangular cross-section accurate to within
20thous, or turn it into a push-rod, or a lathe tool, or a garden
ornament - why would I subscribe to a magazine that only tells me how to
use it to make a gear lever on a 1908 gner 1/2" scale (and spend two
pages telling me what colour it HAS to be).

To take a not-so-engineering example:
There is a magazine produced (woodworking) in the states called "shopnotes":

It's basically woodworking tools to make at home plus what
to make with them.

So there'll be (for example) a dedicated issue on making a drum
sander (a cross between a surface grinder and a planer for metally
types) accurate to a couple of thou, plus in the same issue an
article about using it to make cabinet doors, trueing up the drum,
selecting abrasive paper grits, or cutting disks (to make the drum).

There'll be be a new project every couple of months (it's published 6
times a year), and regular contributors are mailed with a schedule of
projects and an invitation to contribute relevant articles.

why not have "modern engineering workshop" with a dedicated issue on a
particular tool or technique every month?

"boilers" one month - rivetting, pressure testing, rolling, -
whatever else needs to be done (I have no idea, I'm not into trains),

cars the next month.

Perhaps an issue on *** metal working - rolling, folding, rivetting,
wiring, wheeling.
with further issues on making an english wheel, a folder, a jenny, etc?.

or an issue on pipe bending with articles on selection of correct
alloys, annealing, a shop-made pipe bender.

home casting - building a charcoal furnace, mullering sand, preparation
of patterns.

remote control - care and feeding of relays, servo control, basic PWM
speed control, a lead in to CNC programming?

there's lot of "model engineering" that isn't steam locomotives

--
BigEgg
Hack to size. Hammer to fit. Weld to join. Grind to shape. Paint to cover.
http://www.workshop-projects.com -
Plans and free books - *Now with forum*
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