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Model Engineer and Model Engineer Workshop are leading magazines for modellers, with reputations for bringing you the best tips, tricks, and inspiration from the modelling world. From miniature steam locomotives to clocks and automata, get the most out of your builds with Model Engineer and Model Engineer Workshop.

It needs to: 2. Set fairly quickly (e.g. 10 to 30 mins?) 3. Be flexible or rubbery once set (==> able to flex with the cardboard or paper base layer) 4. Be paintable on with either a brush or with spatula (==> but not spray-on as this makes a mess!) Ideally it should also: 6. Not go brittle or yellow with age BACKGROUND I need to be able to apply the glue to both to small (5x5cm) areas and also to fairly large areas (e.g. A4), without it setting - in effect before I can apply the second other s...

Posted by Mick B1 on 15/03/2021 14:40:35: Agreed, and it behoves the machinery distributors to consider the possibilities of supplying it if they want the hobby side of their business to prosper. One of the reasons why ARC spent a considerable amount of money supporting the Milling and lathework for beginners series in MEW and published the subsequent book. For example it does tell you how to fit ER collets into the nut unlike any of the old books where they were not even heard of. In the 25 od...

I some time afterwards decided I couldn’t live without a bandsaw so bought a more expensive Femi model, which, in some ways, was even more disappointing: This too was returned (and subsequently lost by the courier, though that is another story). Feeling I still needed a bandsaw, last week I bought essentially the same Aldi bandsaw as before but this time branded under the Scheppach name. Like the first Aldi saw, out of the box the Scheppach would not cut perpendicularly to the vice/base. How...

I’ve have 4 dro readouts on one of my mills. The normal 3 axis (in one unit) is probably better (cheaper/ axis) than a separate third one, as a later add-on. 4 on mine because it has a quill and knee. I usually use the knee, not the quill, if possible (apart from multiple drillings to depth). The quill readout is a stand-alone reader, so separate to the main unit. All that said, nearly all the ‘extras’ from a comprehensive dro are for the horizontal plane - bolt circles etc. I most ce...

Trevor ... it would be interesting [and possibly useful] to run that through various translators. MichaelG. No Im afraid not Michael, the diesel heater kit of parts from which this plate is taken actually comes with a very simple and easy to follow instruction book, which to be fair does seem to be more common than it was years ago. Its the label on the register or mounting plate that amused me as soon as I checked through the contents.

Hello Bill, a possibility is Pryor in Sheffield. Brian Thank you Brian. I will follow up that lead.   Thanks for the link, Michael. Yes, their existence at least gives me hope that they may be obtainable here in the UK and possibly at a more modest sum than $240.   Vintagengineer, thanks. I had a look on Ebay and there is a serifed set currently up for auction but it is missing letters c and k. For the present job I only need two letters and, as luck would have it, one of them is c! ETA: I ha...