Archive for March, 2011
Stirling Air Rally Report
I attended the Stirling Air Engine rally at the weekend at Kew Bridge Steam Museum and I’m happy to report that it was a very successful event. We were greeted on arrived by a large wood burning engine powering a
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Tags: Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Stirling Engine
Video your projects – win prizes
Chronos are running a video competition. They are looking for people to make videos of their model making projects, tools or techniques. Each video featured on their site will recieve a £25 gift voucher and an overall winner will be
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Tags: chronos, Competition, video
Boat Race
Tomorrow will be the Oxford and Cambridge boat race when two lots of students who’ve been neglecting their studies will attempt to row flimsy craft (with no passengers) along the Thames whilst lots of people on the bank drink booze
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Tags: boat race, steam ship
Renishaw
I saw the name Renishaw in the business section of the paper the other evening and I thought I see what they had been upto recently. I first came across Renishaw about 20 years back when I was doing an
Made Simple – Made Easy
“A selection of gadgets to assist the Model Engineer” by H. Maurice Turnbull This book was first published last year and is a large format booklet style publication of just 50 or so pages with a good clear selection of
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews, Mechanical Gadgets, Projects
Tags: Jig, Tools
Workshop Practice Series
For budding model engineers the workshop practice series provides a great introduction to a wide range of topics as well as providing detail and projects if you want to take things further. I thought I’d use some of the metrics
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Tags: Workshop Practice
Seen around town
Just a few of the things I’ve seen in and around the galleries in London. Lorenzo Quinn, ‘Vroom Vroom’ on Park Lane Genetic Heirloom: Revital Cohen at Wellcome Trust Mechano Robot at the Pullman Gallery, King Street. I believe this
Posted in: Inspiration, Sculpture
Mystery Metal
When I had some builders do some work the other year, they left me some metal. Thin sheet approx 0.3mm folded into a L shape approx 15x15x15cm. I had assumed it was zinc and something to do with the roof.
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Materials: Aluminium, Zinc
Tags: Chemicals, Materials Science, Metal
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
