Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	420	Smoke Rings		Mystery Model		Triple expansion steam engine by George Hartung
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	421	Exhibition	1	The London Model Engineering and Modelling Exhibition 2019	John Arrowsmith	Recalls highlights of the recent exhibition held at Alexandra Palace. Dr Wh... more Recalls highlights of the recent exhibition held at Alexandra Palace. Dr Who's Tardis (The Ministry of Steam Punk), Chelmsford SME, Young Engineers, 5"g. LMS Royal Scot (Maidstone SME), locomotives (Northolt MRC), 7 1/4"g. American Big boy by Alan Antiss, Harrow & Wembley, N2 0-6-2 tank locomotive (7 1/4" Gauge Society), Clayton steam lorry (St Albans DMES), Hymek (10 1/4 Inch Gauge Society), Harlington, Andy Brock's 5"g. tank wagon, Chingford MEC
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	424	Boiler	26	ME Vertical Boiler - Fittings	Martin Gearing	Completes the boiler by adding the pressure gauge and the other remaining p... more Completes the boiler by adding the pressure gauge and the other remaining parts. Pressure gauge cone, making up and fitting pressure gauge 'U' tube, fitting the chimney to the smokebox cap, installing the cap exhaust fitting, fitting the smokebox cap, fitting the stop valve, assembly and fitting the safety valve, filler plug
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	427	Exhibition		The Model Engineer Competition 10-12 May 2019. Entry Form - Competition & L... more The Model Engineer Competition 10-12 May 2019. Entry Form - Competition & Loan Models
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	428	Exhibition		To help you get the best from the Model Engineer Exhibition
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	429	Workshop		A Framework Knitting Machine	John Clarke	Describes how he set about the making of a one sixth model of an eighteenth... more Describes how he set about the making of a one sixth model of an eighteenth century knitting machine. Making my one sixth size Knitting Machine
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	432	Locomotive	6	City of Stoke on Trent in 2 1/2 Inch Gauge	Robert Hobbs	Creates a longed for Pacific from an historic set of castings
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	434	Book Review		Austrian Narrow Gauge Twilight: Tours in the 1960s and 1970s	Adrian S Garner	Austrian coach on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Reviewed by Rog... more Austrian coach on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Reviewed by Roger Backhouse
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	436	Educational	35	Lathes and More for Beginners	Graham Sadler	Grinds some tool bits. Grinding the tool bits, tool bit for the angled bar,... more Grinds some tool bits. Grinding the tool bits, tool bit for the angled bar, checking if a bar will foul in the hole
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	439	General		Next Issue		Aero Engine; Vertical Boiler; Tadpole; ME Beam Engine; Rainhill Reborn
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	440	Locomotive	3	A New GWR Pannier	Doug Hewson	Decides that LBSC's well-known GWR pannier tank design needs a make-over. H... more Decides that LBSC's well-known GWR pannier tank design needs a make-over. Horn blocks, springs, Peter Robinson's Pannier at Gilling
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	444	Postbag		Young Engineers	Patrick Hendra	Eastleigh Young Engineers
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	444	Postbag		Content of Model Engineer	Ron Isted	See 222 4606 309
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	444	Postbag		Content of Model Engineer	David Clark	Ex-editor Model Engineer
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	445	Postbag		Content of Model Engineer	Anthony Mount
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	445	Postbag		Facing-point Ground Lock	Mike Hanscombe
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	445	Postbag		Oil Pumps	John Yeoman
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	446	Exhibition	2	Faszination Modellbau Friedrichshafen 2018	John Arrowsmith	Takes a trip to Friedrichshafen to take a look at a vast display of model e... more Takes a trip to Friedrichshafen to take a look at a vast display of model engineering. HMS Victory by Manfred Burhart, steam powered Canoe Fultons Folly, Bodensee club, Bismark model, stern wheel paddle steamer by Charles West-Thomas, I/C road vehicle demonstrations, indoor flying area, Zeppelin airship, 0 gauge 80cm Kanone Dora, 1:2.5 scale Fokker 'Spinne', 00 gauge railway layouts, radio controlled motorcycles
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	450	Road Locomotive	54	Garrett 4CD Tractor in 6 inch scale	Chris Gunn	Considers the design of the water gauges
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	452	General		If you don't want to miss an issue just ask!
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	454	Turbine	11	Steam Turbines Large and Miniature. What causes poor efficiency?	Mike Tilby	Explores the technology, history and modelling of steam turbines. Does size... more Explores the technology, history and modelling of steam turbines. Does size matter? Losses in model turbines, losses in flowing steam, fluid flow, flow patterns, Osborne Reynolds, friction in flowing steam, friction and surface finish in small ducts, surface finish on turbine blades, flow separation, references
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	458	Locomotive	46	The Barclay Well Tanks of the Great War	Terence Holland	Describes and constructs two appealing, century old locomotives. Whistle va... more Describes and constructs two appealing, century old locomotives. Whistle valve and whistle, firedoor - Douglas and ACC No.1, drain cock lever, bulkhead fittings, bunker coal door, pipe lagging, reference
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	462	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Club photographs, dual potentiometer, 'Pubs in Sheds', cr*p jokes, declutte... more Club photographs, dual potentiometer, 'Pubs in Sheds', cr*p jokes, decluttering, flu-jab
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	462	Club News		Maidstone MES		Chris Williams' Britannia (Photo courtesy of Sue Parham)
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	462	Club News		Northern Districts MES (Perth, Aus)
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	463	Club News		Aston Manor Road Transport Museum		Albert Haywood, Aldridge West Midlands
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	463	Club News		Grimsby & Cleethorpes MES
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	463	Club News		York City DSME
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	463	Club News		Sheffield DSMEE
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	463	Club News		Otago MES (NZ)
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		Canterbury DMES
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		MEE Auckland		GKN Tactica at Hack Green nuclear bunker
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		Bournemouth DSME
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		Ottawa Valley LSME (Can)
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		And finally		Stolen antidepressants
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	464	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Dixie at Sheffield Auction Galleries
	2019	15-Mar	222	4,608	465	Diary		Diary
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	343	On the cover ...		David Milway's image of a two cylinder compound condensing engine		A rendered image of his 3D model, published by Model Engineer in March 1923... more A rendered image of his 3D model, published by Model Engineer in March 1923, generated by the Alibre 3D design package (photograph used by kind permission of Alibre), see 48 1141 247
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	352	Smoke Rings		Model Engineer Competition		At the National Model Engineering Exhibition at Doncaster, trophies
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	353	Exhibition		The Model Engineer Competition 10-12 May 2019. Entry Form - Competition & L... more The Model Engineer Competition 10-12 May 2019. Entry Form - Competition & Loan Models
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	354	Exhibition		To help you get the best from the Model Engineer Exhibition
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	355	Exhibition		Faszination Modellbau Friedrichshafen 2018	John Arrowsmith	Takes a trip to Friedrichshafen to take a look at a vast display of model e... more Takes a trip to Friedrichshafen to take a look at a vast display of model engineering. 5"g. Henschall 2-8-2 Class 19 locomotive, 5"g. 0-6-0 Class 89 by Magnus Altherr, 7 1/4"g. passenger railway, 5"g. Stephenson's Rocket, 1:4.5 scale Lanz tractor, track based Lanz tractor, rail mounted Lanz tractor, hot air engined potato masher, Fowler traction engine with a planking machine, Stuart gas engine, 'Dancers End' double beam engine, steam Scotte Dampfbus, miniature steam engines, Stirling engine-powered rear paddle system
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	358	Boiler	25	ME Vertical Boiler - Fittings	Martin Gearing	Assemblies (assembles?) his collection of boiler fittings and makes a start... more Assemblies (assembles?) his collection of boiler fittings and makes a start on their installation. Assembly of boiler fittings, installing gauge glass fittings, fitting gauge glass blow down valve and discharge pipe, installing adjusting clack valve, fitting tubeplate extensions and superheater
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	360	General		If you don't want to miss an issue just ask!
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	361	Aeronautical	10	Quarter Scale Bentley BR2 Rotary Aero Engine	Mick Knights	Makes the slip ring for the ignition and then revisits the cylinder heads. ... more Makes the slip ring for the ignition and then revisits the cylinder heads. The Tufnol slip ring, another look at the cylinder heads
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	363	General		Next Issue		London Show; GWR Pannier Tank; Turbines; Lathes; Vertical Boiler
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	364	Educational	34	Lathes and More for Beginners	Graham Sadler	Makes a holder and a set of reducers for easing the task of grinding toolbi... more Makes a holder and a set of reducers for easing the task of grinding toolbits. Marking out, using the lathe with no marking out, use of toolmakers buttons, buy a self centring 125mm four jaw chuck
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	366	Stationary Engine	3	Building the Model Engineer Beam Engine	David Haythornthwaite	Describes how to build this engine in 1 inch scale from available castings.... more Describes how to build this engine in 1 inch scale from available castings. Machining the main column, the column base
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	370	Workshop	8	Sieg SX2 Plus Miller CNC Conversion	Graham Sadler	Explains how he converted his Sieg milling machine to CNC operation. Electr... more Explains how he converted his Sieg milling machine to CNC operation. Electronic system control box
	2019	01-Mar	222	4,607	372	Boiler	2	Water Treatment for Miniature Steam Boilers	Bob Bramson	Examines the problem of corrosion within our boilers and looks at ways of d... more Examines the problem of corrosion within our boilers and looks at ways of dealing with it. Water treatment options, the consequences of water treatment, new boilers, maintenance, North American built 141R locomotive
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