Model Engineers’ Workshop – July 2019

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Colchester Lathe Factory

■ A fascinating fi lm of the old Colchester Lathe Factory from

castings to fi nished machines

Shipping Heavy Models and Machine Moving

Recommendations

■ What’s the best way to get a heavy things moved around

the country?

Basic Questions About Wax Chucks

■ A chance to learn how they did it in the ‘old days’.

PLUS: Model and tool builds, problem solving and engineering chat!

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Coming up...

in our next issue

Regulars

3 On the Editor’s Bench

Some thoughts about exhibitions.

26 Scribe A Line

More correspondence from fellow readers.

28 On the Wire

An update on the Bombe.

44 Readers’ Tips

A neat idea for Myford Super 7 tailstocks.

58 Readers’ Classifi eds

Another fi ne selection of reader’s ads, expertly selected and hand

prepared

ON THE COVER ›››

This month’s cover shows Derek

Brown demonstrating the grinding

of four-facet drills at the recent

Doncaster Show. See page 13 for

more pictures from the show.

Coming up in our August issue, number 283, another great read

Visit our website to access extra downloads, tutorials, examples

and links. This month see the results of the 2019 Stevenson

Trophy competition:

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/stevenson

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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

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instalments, head over to http://www.

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