The Decline of Model Engeneering Workshop

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

The Decline of Model Engeneering Workshop

Model Engineer and Model Engineering Workshop has now been amalgamated into just one entity. Is this because there are less people interested in engineering and have found other hobbies ?

Recent posts on this site are now talking about painting houses, blueberries and heat pumps which have nothing to do with model engineering. There are other sites for these subjects.

Is ME&W now to be renamed MEWHG (Model Engineer, Worksop, House & Garden) ????

If this site is to remain, please keep the content about engineering or some patrons may lose interest and it will disappear like some other sites.

Just my opinion (who else agrees ?),  Paul

 

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Not me, for one.  I think that you will find that the subjects which you quote as non-engineering are posted in the “Tea room” section.  A perfectly acceptable place to raise such questions in my opinion.  No “talking shop” in those sorts of places, I would imagine – I have never worked in such an environment.

Oh and by the way, as far as I know, the magazine was not called Model Engineering Workshop (or Worksop) it was always “Engineers’ “.

John

 

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

The two magazines have returned to something rather as “Model Engineer” alone used to be, once it had dropped the “& Electrician” from its title aeons ago. Give it a bit of time to bed in!

 

Regarding this site, we do have interests and lives alongside model-engineering, and the “Tea-room” is an apt place for discussing those. Do the lunch-breaks or tea-and-natter sessions within your model-engineering society gatherings stick to arguing carbide-v-HSS and how to design blast-pipes? I’d be surprised if they do!

Actually my own club does more gardening than engineering on its site – as we do joke self-deprecatingly about – but most of our metalworking is at home in our own workshops; and we use the club site with its railways and lots of room for traction-engines to operate or display our creative efforts.

Most of this web-site IS shop-talk and obviously so by the separate Forum titles; but most of us do enjoy some relief now and then from that.

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I did not realize it was posted in the tea room.

[Nick WheelerParticipant @nickwheeler]

I don’t agree either, for two reasons:

1. There aren’t two forum members/subscribers who can agree what Model Engineering actually includes. It’s a terrible term for what many of us do.

 

2. Forums that do restrict their content like that are mind numbingly dull. The rare posts tend to be either a new member whose voice is drowned by the echoing silence, or posts that continue an argument that was started in the fifth ever post decades ago and continued by three long term members with four opposing views.***

 

 

*** yes, I know, four doesn’t go into three. But the whole thing got so dogmatic that the three regularly assume Cranky Cyril’s arguments since he died.

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