Bless ‘em … they probably picked-up on the word ‘Model’

MichaelG.

Who is Ralph Lauren?

Do I want to know? Do I live in the same World?

JA

I liken Sam Fox to one of those Ferrari look a like kit cars with a VW engine – all show and no go. Well not for the likes of most of us!

Been out in the sun to long

H

Lee, surely this is a new topic! If it becomes one I would happily contribute!!

JA

Ralph Lauran can give me some of his fortune so i can build another model loco mate i think he is fantastic.

'Freshly ironed white boiler suits?' De rigueur for engineering officers in RN.

Regards Ian.

Edited By Circlip on 23/06/2023 11:04:25

It's about how long you can keep a Womble in the air with a paddle like thing.

Well, I like to say something positive where appropriate (if that's the word…)

You're obviously not a member of the glowing-chip/cubic-inches-per-minute-metal-removal group…

Oh, it won't be the racquet stringing itself we'll be reading about, but the machine someone has built to carry that out….

In fact the "occasional short articles" on what might be called "Domestic Engineering" would be in the spirit of when Model Engineer was the Model Engineer & Electrician.

I have a couple of bound volumes now a bit over 100 years old (no they were not new to me), and include a method for re-seating the scullery water-tap, a link-motion device that plots your pulse from the wrist, and a trigger-focus hand-torch!

The tap was unscrewed from the pipe, dismantled and mounted on an improvised, wooden Keats plate on the lathe's faceplate. A later item in the volume cites that, and shows how to make a simple tool to reseat a ball-cock without needing remove it from the lead pipe to which it had been soldered – adding a wry comment about the cost of engaging a plumber. Nowt new there then.

The pulse-plotter uses a smoked-glass plate I think, and the writer gives the equation for the pulse: lots of trigonometry.

The torch, of right-angled pattern, uses the trigger to alter the distance between the bulb and convex lens.

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This same volume also gives the description of a miniature traction-engine, apparently freelance but looking in the photo of roughly 4" inch scale size, with a dryback firebox. The author is a Mr. Briggs. I wonder… was this the original Briggs Boiler?

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There are also darker items in ME&E of that time… It was in 1917, still in World War One, and many model-engineers used their skills as out-workers for armaments production, making shell-case components. Various articles give ideas for the techniques.

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One former fellow club-member, a sidesman in his local church, used our society workshop to repair a processional cross damaged by over-enthusiastic brass-cleaners; and to make acrylic replacement centres for ornamental roses stolen from an altar cross. The thief must have thought the red glass originals were rubys! We decided the society needed an extra "E" , not for "Experimental" but "Ecclesiastical" .

I have made odd pieces of caving equipment, the last being a manual winch whose reel side-frame parts were cut from scrapped miniature-railway bar-rail.

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Now, what natty little number shall I wear to the club track tomorrow? One must look one's best when replacing sleepers.

Edited By Nigel Graham 2 on 23/06/2023 23:20:45