Shaping Machines

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

John,

Far be it from me to puit you off, but the first article was a discursive discussion of what shapers are and can do. You may wish to wait for the later ones which I guess will be more about using them.

Neil

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Picked up the latest ME on my weekly visit to town, and in the second article of the series Mick is getting down to what we were expecting

[DMBParticipant @dmb]

These articles should be of great interest to me since my first job as a school – leaver and first machine was a shaper. I had never seen one before. I had to grind my own tools on a tool grinder the like of which many of us have got today. Should be very interesting what the articles say compared with what I learned all those years ago. The factory BTW was on top of a filled – in cutting of the old Dyke Railway branch in Hove, Sussex.

Edited By DMB on 18/07/2013 20:05:59

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

Posted by John Coates on 22/06/2013 10:02:51:

TBH this is a bit frustrating as I subscribe to MEW as I thought it was about tools and tooling and would have expected an article like this to be in there. I have no interest in models hence why I don't get ME

John; I understand the dilemma; I like model building, but we model builders use tools. And, maintain them sometimes, although models are the primary thing.

Sometimes I pick up MEW at the newsstand, because there are items of general interest to modellers in it. (sometimes I miss it at the news stand, when I want to read an article talked about here, though!)

Really, IMHO, there should be one magazine not two, like it was for about a century, but that's just my (not important) opinion.

Another JohnS.

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

There have not been many articles about using a shaper, but there were 2 way back in MEW nos 22 & 24 by Bill Morris. Phil

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Posted by John Alexander Stewart on 18/07/2013 23:59:56:

Posted by John Coates on 22/06/2013 10:02:51:

TBH this is a bit frustrating as I subscribe to MEW as I thought it was about tools and tooling and would have expected an article like this to be in there. I have no interest in models hence why I don't get ME

John; I understand the dilemma; I like model building, but we model builders use tools. And, maintain them sometimes, although models are the primary thing.

Sometimes I pick up MEW at the newsstand, because there are items of general interest to modellers in it. (sometimes I miss it at the news stand, when I want to read an article talked about here, though!)

Really, IMHO, there should be one magazine not two, like it was for about a century, but that's just my (not important) opinion.

Another JohnS.

Maybe Diane is starting to work her way back to that?? Where is DC1 these days???

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