Model Engineers’ Workshop – August 2019

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DIY Epoxy Frame based CNC Mill

■ Further progress with John McNamara’s remarkable

machine tool build.

Do you clean your workshop at the end of the day?

■ Confess! Are you an obsessive lathe-polisher or do you

organise and archaeological dig every three years to fi nd

your missing tools?

Multi faceted drill bits - really necessary?

■ Are four-facet drills better than conventional ones?

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in our next issue

Regulars

3 On the Editor’s Bench

Animals as engineers?

18 Scribe A Line

An interesting old lathe, and other news from readers

64 On the Wire

A linishing machine, and a new book on digital model making.

38 Readers’ Tips

An alternative strategy for tidying up damaged threads.

60 Readers’ Classifi eds

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ON THE COVER ›››

This month’s cover shows Brian Wood

with an enormous extended drill for

making a long hole through the stone

tower of his local church. For the full

story see page 33

Coming up in our September issue, number 284, another great read

Visit our website to access extra downloads, tutorials, examples

and links. This month a video to complement Jason Ballamy’s

Milling for Beginners series:

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/mfb 1

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questions about our recent Alibre

Atom3D or current Lathework for

Beginners or Milling for Beginners

series, or you would like to

suggest ideas or topics for future

instalments, head over to http://www.

model-engineer.co.uk where

there are Forum Topics specially to

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