Model Engineer Exhibition 2009 – Sandown
Press Release The Model Engineer Exhibition will be returning to Sandown Park Exhibition Centre at the Sandown Park Race Course. Friday 11th December – Sunday 13th December 2009 Exhibits and Attractions World class Model Engineer Competition SMEE Lectures Wide range
Posted in: Exhibition
Tags: 2009, December, Model Engineering, Sandown
Mikes Gear Cutting
I’ve been following Mike’s Models blog for some time now and Mike’s helped me out with silver soldering questions in the past. One of his current projects is to make some pinion wheels for a kids toy. There are various
Posted in: Machining
Tags: fly cutting, Gears
Old machinery
The Wellcome Trust library has a great historical archive of zoological, medical and scientific material. Amongst their plague fleas and elephants are a collection of images of lathes, chucks and tooling by the likes of Edward Speer, T. Griffiths, Joseph
Flying cutting blobs
Earlier in the year, I bought some fly cutters at a model engineering exhibition. The intention was to tidy up some of the castings I’d made last year. The first issue was how to hold an irregular shaped piece whilst
Posted in: Casting, Milling
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: fly cutting
Stepperhead
The stepperhead is a sophisticated multi-mode machine made by Alan Jackson. In other words, it’s both a lathe and a milling machine but it can also perform some functions not available on either. The video below shows one of these
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Milling
Tags: stepper motor
Setting up a workshop shed
Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a few articles on how to setup your garden shed as a workshop. Here’s a summary of all the topics you might need to think about when designing your workshop. Storage and
Answer to Mechanism seen on the tube
It would appear my puzzle was a little too easy. Mike Morgan was the first to spot that it was “some sort fancy upmarket clasp on a bag?” followed by some lady readers of the workshopshed blog who new exactly
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: designer handbag, GGL
Mechanism seen on the tube
On the way to work this morning I saw the above mechanism whilst travelling on the London underground. Any guesses as to what it is?
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
