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2024 09-Feb 232 4,736 294 Club News High Wycombe MEC
2024 09-Feb 232 4,736 294 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Hi-fi enthusiasts, marginal changes to sound quality, wrap foil around main... more
Hi-fi enthusiasts, marginal changes to sound quality, wrap foil around mains cables, etc. Deb's internet feed, may the fourth be with you …
2024 09-Feb 232 4,736 294 Club News And finally What do old devils drink? Satanogen
2024 09-Feb 232 4,736 295 Diary Club Diary
2024 09-Feb 232 4,736 295 General Next Issue Turbine Loco: Bodo Museum: Making Leaf Springs: B1 Ash Pan: Fire Queen Tend... more
Turbine Loco: Bodo Museum: Making Leaf Springs: B1 Ash Pan: Fire Queen Tender
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 183 On the cover … A beam engine to the K.N.Harris design of 1946 built by Geoff Walker (photo Geoff Walker)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 183 On the cover … A beam engine to the K.N.Harris design of 1946 built by Geoff Walker (photo Geoff Walker)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 188 Smoke Rings Models
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 188 Smoke Rings SM&EE
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 188 Smoke Rings Matt Roberts
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 188 Smoke Rings Club Secretaries
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 188 Smoke Rings Cover Price
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 189 Agricultural 2 1934 McDonald Tractor - A working one-fourth scale model George Punter Is drawn to another tractor project. Chassis pattern, sand mould, core box,... more
Is drawn to another tractor project. Chassis pattern, sand mould, core box, radiator top, 70bhp two stroke McDonald engine, chassis and radiator base casting
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 192 Club We Visit the Bournemouth Model Engineering Society John Arrowsmith Takes a break form his holiday to visit a seaside club. The extensive garde... more
Takes a break form his holiday to visit a seaside club. The extensive garden railway layout, a passenger view of the long straight, Roundhouse 'Billy', club house and steaming bays, traverser, members' lounge and clubroom, portable water softening plant, Class 59 hauls the 'Senile Express', Ron Challener, Neil Holder, Cock o' the North, Simplex, Littledown Castle, bronze cannon, hit & miss engine, an ML Midge aero engine
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 196 Road Locomotive Transport of a four inch Garrett Traction Engine Werner Schleidt Watches a friend's latest project emerge from his basement workshop. Jurgen... more
Watches a friend's latest project emerge from his basement workshop. Jurgen Stein
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 199 General 3 The View from Butterside Down - Kicking Things Off Steve Goodbody Measuring Up. Takes a random walk through model engineering. Windermere (Ph... more
Measuring Up. Takes a random walk through model engineering. Windermere (Photo credit: lakedistricttravelguide.co.uk), the measurement problem, Ribena, Paul to the rescue
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 201 Historic 53 The Stationary Steam Engine Ron Fitzgerald James Watt Junior vs Richard Trevithick Junior. Takes a look at the history... more
James Watt Junior vs Richard Trevithick Junior. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine.
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 203 Workshop Oil Blackening Steel Graham Astbury Explains the science of oil blackening. Home made clamps, conclusions, refe... more
Explains the science of oil blackening. Home made clamps, conclusions, references
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 205 Locomotive 37 LNER B1 Locomotive Doug Hewson Vacuum Brake Ejector. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompso... more
Vacuum Brake Ejector. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompson's most successful locomotive. Dummy vacuum relief valve, ejector steam cone and exhaust cone, brake non-return valve, spool valve, brake valve air inlet
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 208 Postbag Buckeye Couplings Jerker
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 208 Postbag Corpet 242 Dick Paterson Petites Locomotives, Porteur Decauville
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 209 Postbag Injectors Gerald Martyn
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 210 Stationary Engine 2 K.N.Harris Beam Engine Geoff Walker Revisits a beam engine first described in Model Engineer in 1946. Front vie... more
Revisits a beam engine first described in Model Engineer in 1946. Front view of the 2023 engine, front view of the 1946 engine, cylinder, base and cap, rotary valve, valve and cover, valve setting and timing, …. And finally
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 214 Nautical 6 Hercules A twin cylinder compound condensing marine steam engine Chris Walter Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Eccentrics, ecc... more
Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Eccentrics, eccentric straps
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 219 Club SMEE 125th Anniversary Steam Cruise Martin Kyte Sees SM&EE take to the water en masse. SL Nuneham, brick plaque, engine roo... more
Sees SM&EE take to the water en masse. SL Nuneham, brick plaque, engine room, boiler Sissons engine, trainee stoker, SN&EE members' group photograph for the archives
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 222 Workshop A Simple Add-on Guarding System For the home milling machine or similar use Calder Percival Describes a simple safety feature for a milling machine.
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 224 Locomotive 21 A Five-Inch Gauge 0-4-0 Padarn Railway Tender Locomotive (Fire Queen) Luker Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. Brake as... more
Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. Brake assembly, brake hangers, brake coupling rods, the brake pins, brake lever assembly and brake block, views of the completed tender frame, references
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 228 Stationary Engine 3 Biscuit Tin Steam Engine Tony Bird Says you never know what you might find in an old biscuit tin. Reversing va... more
Says you never know what you might find in an old biscuit tin. Reversing valve, lubricator, regulator and finishing
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 232 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Significant issue! At the doctors
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 232 Club News MEE Auckland
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 232 Club News UK Men's Sheds Association
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 233 Club News Gauge 1 MRA Denver & Rio Grande C-19, Somerset & Dorset 2-8-0
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 233 Club News Frimley & Ascot LC Martin Parham's P2, anonymous Class 20 & inspection carriage, both at the F... more
Martin Parham's P2, anonymous Class 20 & inspection carriage, both at the FMES rally (photos courtesy of Phil Weaver)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 233 Club News SM&EE
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 233 Club News Ottawa Valley LSME (Can)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News Richmond Hill LS (Can)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News Norwich DSME
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News Bournemouth DSME
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News Stockholes Farm MR
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Sheffield auctions, Rio Grande 'Mikado' (SAG Catalogue), brass kit road loc... more
Sheffield auctions, Rio Grande 'Mikado' (SAG Catalogue), brass kit road locomotive (SAG Catalogue)
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 234 Club News And finally The children of Israel wandered the desert for 40 years, men asking for dir... more
The children of Israel wandered the desert for 40 years, men asking for directions
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 235 Diary Club Diary
2024 26-Jan 232 4,735 235 General Next Issue Pullman Cars: Williamson Engine: Chatter: Ring Roller: Acorn Bank
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 55 General Next Issue We Visit Bournemouth: Blackening: Moving a Garrett: Guards: LNER B1
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 123 On the cover … A 1934 McDonald tractor to quarter scale constructed by George Punter (photo George Punter)
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 128 Smoke Rings Hobbies Chuck … …The Muddle Engineer. Aspin. See 123 3100 700
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 128 Smoke Rings Hobbies IMLEC and LittleLEC
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 129 Locomotive 58 Flying Scotsman in 5 Inch Gauge Peter Seymour-Howell Reverser Stand. Builds a fine, fully detailed model of Gresley's iconic loc... more
Reverser Stand. Builds a fine, fully detailed model of Gresley's iconic locomotive to Don Young's drawings. Reverser stand for Sir Nigel Gresley, see 232 4740 512
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 132 Exhibition Hidden Gems [Dartmouth Heritage Society museum] David Rollinson Gains access to the off-site warehouse of a museum in Canada. The ferry Dar... more
Gains access to the off-site warehouse of a museum in Canada. The ferry Dartmouth, Dartmouth's paddle wheel engine, low-pressure cylinder and maker's plaque, single cylinder beam engine, single cylinder non-reversing engine by Mr. Briggs, overtype engine Sparkplug, the 'Excelsior' dairy engine
2024 12-Jan 232 4,734 135 An Engineer's Day Out Wonderlab at the National Railway Museum Roger Backhouse Takes a look at the latest addition to the National Railway Museum. Origins... more
Takes a look at the latest addition to the National Railway Museum. Origins, design, Flying Scotsman, the orange 'sculpture' Mass, 'The Great Machine', wind tunnel demonstration, activities, coned wheels improve track riding, Sandscapes, Gareth Dennis, Path Maker, Routefinder, demonstrations, history - the workshop and after, engineering's place in the Railway Museum, a visitor's view, importance of triangles, missed opportunities, Webster-Bennett vertical boring machine, Strathspey Railway, overview, visiting the museum, warning, Reference 1: Further reading