GNOME ENGINE RE-VISITED
Our Model of the Week is the Gnome monosoupape engine, designed by Stephen Wessel - drawings are available
SUPER SIMPLE BEGINNER’S ENGINES
Julius’ drawings for metric and imperial beginners’ steam engines
DENNY ERICSSON ENGINE
Jason begins his description of building the Denny improved Ericsson engine.
NARROW GAUGE MINERAL LOCO
Our delve into the archives found this unusual early goods loco
EAGLE GNR 4-4-0
Julius drawings for a metric version of the attractive Eagle loco design
LBSCR STROUDLEY TERRIER
Great project from Julius. Stroudley Terrier in 5” gauge for those who choose to work in metric.
JULIUS’ CONDENSING ENGINE
Special feature on another great original Julius design from Rafel Ayensa, the condensing compound engine .
CHANGES AT MODEL ENGINEER
Martin Evans is giving up the ME editor’s chair at the end of the year, retiring after seven yers in the job. Model Engineer and Model Engineers’ Workshop will re-merge, with Neil Wyatt in charge of producing it once a month.
Our best wishes go to Martin who is looking forward to getting back to making swarf and to Neil in these difficult times.
DOWNLOADS
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Incidentally, although drawings reproduce well on our website, they are even better as saved downloads. By the way, when you download a drawing from MEWS, you do not download anything else at the same time.
SEARCH
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Or have fun trawling back through earlier content. The most recent is listed with links in the next column.
PRINTING
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DVDs
material published from 2009 to end 2016 has now been moved to DVDs, available here.
COPYRIGHT
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Anything we publish on MEWS remains the copyright of the originator - simple.
CONTRIBUTIONS
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TEAM
David Carpenter is your editor of Model Engineering Website, the weekly web magazine for model engineers now in its 15th year. Formerly journalist with Daily Telegraph, Metalworking Production, Industry Week, Statist, etc and editor of Model Engineer.
Regular contributors include designer Julius de Waal and Jason Ballamy.
David Carpenter
Editor, Model Engineering Website