My mag is falling apart

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Pages of the last three model engineer magazine that I have received have fallen apart. Has the paper been changed that they are printed on? I have never had this problem before!

Brian

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

[Rex HanmanParticipant @rexhanman57403]

I had the middle page fall out of issue no.4556 as I opened it. Haven't managed to get round to 4557 and 4558 yet.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I've had a couple of ctr folds come loose recently and I don't look at the paper mag that much haveing flicked through it online beforehand.

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

I had the middle page of MEW 253 fall out – the staples had cut through the paper. I think the stapling mechanism needs adjusting.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Could be a sneaky method by the subscriptions department to get us to buy the binders which use a thin steel rod to hold the mag in place so even if the stitching wire (not known as staples in the trade) has cut through you won't loose a page.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The paper does change from time to time, can't say I have lost any pages though (just as well, I read ME in the bath).

The middle pages (plan) of 253 weren't stapled in.

Neil

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 15/04/2017 09:58:16:

The middle pages (plan) of 253 weren't stapled in.

Neil

It was the actual middle pages (nos. 33-36) that fell out.

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

There is no doubt in my mind, the quality of the cover is better, much thicker but the pages are so much thinner, not good for long life or repeated use. Throw away age I am afraid. Somebody somewhere has no doubt been given a golden bean for saving a penny or two in the production of each copy.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

When my last ME arrived, I was flicking through it, and though the pages seemed thinner, but I have never(so far) had any fall out.

Ian S C

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

We changed stock for MEW 253, but both 253 and 252 were on 60GSM paper (Grapholux 60 gsm to Innosem 60 gsm, if you really must know!)

Neil

[John Farmer 5Participant @johnfarmer5]

It appears I need to "make a small number of forum posts" before I can respond to a classified ad (about old ME mags), despite having been registered with this forum for a good many years, and posted a couple of posts in 2014. So this is just one of my "small number".
John

[John Farmer 5Participant @johnfarmer5]

It worked – I'm in. Sorry for interrupting your flow….
John

[alan-lloydParticipant @alan-lloyd]

I used to make envelopes in a previous life and what paper you ran always determined if the machine would run or not, they were and still are I suspect very sensitive, as are print presses

[Andrew EvansParticipant @andrewevans67134]

Brian, have you been doing anything differently recently to the magazine😀

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Posted by John Farmer 2 on 02/11/2017 19:22:39:

It worked – I'm in. Sorry for interrupting your flow….

It's a 6-month old thread …. I doubt that you interrupted a flow.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Obviously, Neil is soaks up all the info in the magazine!

Howard

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